OH MY GOD! What you call Kotatsu in Japan, we call a KORSEE in Iran!! This is our main winter family tradition. All families set one up for the winter months! Amazing!
There was an America rock band that chose to name themselves "The Three Dog Night". Apparently, nights in Alaska can get so cold, that on the coldest nights it is best to have three dogs sleeping with you.
@@midnightsun9559 who what where "australian" what are you talking about? Three Dog Night started in LOS ANGELES which, last I checked, is not located down under.
Not "THE", just "Three Dog Night". Why do people do that? Always throwing an extra THE in front of a band's name? Sometime it's part of the name and sometimes it isn't. The band "The The" was literally named because of that stupidity.
Im in the uk and i boil water in my kettle and fill up a hot water bottle which are made from natural rubber They are pretty much always sold with a fluffy cover now and you can wrap a blanket around you and hug the hot water bottle and you keep lovely and warm.
One in the bed at night is ACES! Put beneath your covers before climbing in... _Ahhh. The best_ welcome, and it lasts throughout the night. (Get a long one if possible!) Sometimes I just lay it near my feet. I also have one whose cover has loops, so you can drape it around your body hands-free. Those such loops can be sewn on (for anyone interested). Fantastic buys, very small investment, WORTH MANY times over. *HIGHLY recommend.*
We live in Colorado in the USA and have a small home above a restaurant that is open seven days a week from 11 to 11. They use a beautiful fire pit in the center of the restaurant that keeps our bathroom cozy in the Winter. Our flat is above the restaurant kitchens too making our utility bill low in the Winter. Our two Toshiba cooling units helps in the Summer time. We love our home and feel blessed to live in a beautiful Old World structure in a lovely historical neighborhood full of beauty and charm. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home and helpful tips for keeping warm. Sending gratitude from our sacred patch to all ❤
Great video, its helpful that you spelled out the items for everyone. I love watching videos from all over the world everyone can learn something from somewhere else :)
In Spain we use what we call "Mesa Camilla" which is similar to your grandma's table. They were very typical in Spain in the past decades, mostly used in the old times when the houses had not heating. You could find 1or 2 in every house. Nowadays they are disappearing. Thank you for your content 😊
Yes, they are still popular in Mallorca, Spain. Most people use an electric heater now-a-days but my mother-in-law still makes the traditional 'Brasero' with almond husk coals.
When I lived in Spain, there were every winter many deaths by asphyxiation because the old fashioned radiators literally used up all the oxygen in the room. Our family changed to the much saver electric radiators.
When I studied in Alicante, none of the apartments had any heat. Winter nights were damp and cold. It was a rude awakening coming from the US where homes have heat, especially when you get up to use the bathroom in the early morning and the floor is literally stone cold.
In the UK we sit around drinking tea and watching TV in our dark, cild, wet winters. Our version of Kotatsu is a big hairy dog lying on your feet under the table waiting for someone to sneak him or her treats (which we all do whilst swearing blind we don't)..
I’m up here in northern Canada on the west coast and winter is -40c for weeks on end. We all just pile into one room with blankets, cozy sleep wear and hot coco into a small-ish room. You’d be surprised how much heat a few bodies throw off. We have to throw open two windows open three times a day to keep the temp and humidity (and body odour) down.
@ Yes we do. But being in a room with multiple people and no ventilation tends to create ‘stuffy’ air. It doesn’t stink per se, but it’s not exactly a pleasant smell and indicates higher humidity, which is not something you want.
@@SpacemanTheo It is 8°C here in Netherlands but we get the upper wind layer directly from Greenland sometimes. I want to know how you people live there and if it would be possible to go to Northern Sweden in winter with similarish temperatures. My pro tip is don't use polyester just wool for your bed and socks. it's natural and not sweaty and sticky and glides easily. Every coat has to be rain and wind resistant we can have very chilly and wet weather where people are not advised to even leave their house. Where exactly in North Canada are you? Do you work from home ? I am very curious.
@ I’m just south of Yukon Territory, and I work as maintenance in a warehouse. No one around here in their right mind would wear polyester if they do hard labour during any time of the year. We get ‘cold snaps’ with Arctic winds and our high altitude and the temp will drop from an average of -25c to -40c in the matter of a day. Right now, it’s unusual warm, but come January and definitely in February we have to bundle up and be very thoughtful if we go out.
Thank you for watching! Today is the coldest day in Japan (even in Tokyo -5°)😂Please let me hear your opinion about cold protection items I use ( ^ω^ ).
@@Filomena4ever Same here in Mongolia. Unfortunately we don't have that many heating option outside the city in the Gers. Mostly woodstoves, but those are killing for the lungs. Solar power is slowly become an alternative (daytime) but doesn't provide enough heat if you have and old style ger. You need a modern super insulated one. Oil heated exists, but it's noisy, plus you would need to travel far to get fuel for it. Not a fan of fossil fuel use.
In the UK we wear layers of clothes in winter we have long underpants called Long Johns made from thermal material same for vests. As an older person I walk and cycle to keep warm during the day. When the weather is really bad, with cold wind and rain I hibernate. The cost of heating is deplorable but just fine if you are wealthy. I do the five animal exercises to keep warm. Hot water bottle for bed is a must as I cannot sleep with windows closed.
I wear layers, my house can be anywhere between 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit, I used to keep it much warmer for my senior dogs but they both passed last year, so now I just bundle up to save on electric costs. I have a blanket warmer, it is a warmer that goes between your flat sheet and your blankets, I get home and turn it on, it warms the entire bed and mattress, then I turn it off when I go to bed. I live alone so it helps keep me warm and warms my feet up. When the power goes out, literally every winter between January and April, has been out for up to 13 days at a time. I get my sub zero sleeping bag out and I have a propane heater. I had hoped to have a wood stove this winter, didn't make it but am striving for next. Edited to add: Fahrenheit
A wood stove really heats up a house. I have a 2,000sq foot house and live in Michigan. When the power goes out in the winter we use our old wood burning stove. The room it's in gets to like 80°. I can sleep comfortably in my bedroom on the 2nd floor on the other side of the house with a hoodie and my comforter. It's probably about 50° in there. Not ideal, but livable.
@@Magdalenasfearswe live in middle Arkansas USA. We only heat to 60 then turn off heat. When I wake up I will turn it on again until it gets to 60 and shut it off. Lowest I have seen it is about 45. Which is a little too cool. Rough on us old people! No back up in case electric fails. Which is worrisome.
@capitalb5889 I live in the PNW but I am at the end of the grid in my little area/neighborhood, so when the power goes out from a storm, the people on my road are the last to get power back on, here you can live 1 mile from the main street and be considered "rural". If you live "rural", you are last to get power back, which means no water either because everyone is on a well. I live in a very "mild" climate zone, the last 20 years the weather has changed so much! We have had ice storms where the ice is 3-4 inches thick, down to negative 15 degrees, 24 inches of snow overnight and another 19 inches of snow the next day, conversely, in the summer we have had 112 degrees and been evacuated for wild fires. All of these "rare events" as they USED to call them are becoming all too commonplace. The area I live in USED to have highs maximum mid 90's, maximum a foot of snow over the course of the whole winter....anything outside of that was a considered a rare event, then they became events, now it is just winter or summer doing it's thing.
Kotatsu were quite popular in the PNW when I was in uni! A lot of older houses don't keep the heat in very well, so they made a very welcome warm spot to do homework. Electric blankets are also really popular underneath you in bed. If you sleep on them, though, they really make it hard to want to get out of bed in the cold morning 😂
I made sand bag foot warmers for my MIL. 1 or 2 minutes in microwave heats the sand nicely. I would put them in her bed at the foot area about 20 minutes before she went to bed. She fell asleep easier when her feet were warm.
I make hot socks, long socks filled with dry white rice, tied in knot at end. Microwave 2 minutes, and they last for years. You can add essential oil to the sock itself for wonderful scent aromas. We gave these as gifts for the holidays and my family loved them! I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and they help me so much!🌞🌻🌻🌻✨💛
@@SunshinesART I have terrible RA too, so I'll try this, thanks!!! 🥰 Do I need to know anything else, or put anything else in it, like a preservative or anything? Or just straight dried white rice, in a tied sock, with the essentials oils on the outside?
Fantastic idea, Carol! Since I don't have electricity or plumbing, I was loking for a way to keep my drinking water bottles from freezing. Hot sand in sand bags, enclosed within a box made of thick styrofoam panels, will do the trick. Will also incude some heated sand bags, on my bed, under my Reflectix duvet cover. AND, heated sand bags to keep my plants from freezing in the greenhouse, and keep my tiny home WARM. I can reheat the sand indefinitely with twigs lying around. I may not need to buy expensive firewood again. Thank you so very much! Oh, happy days!!!🥳
This is so interesting TY but it all looks like a fire hazard to me! I live in the uk I swear by 1) hot water bottles, 2) blankets 3) Fleece bedding 4)Jumpers
One of the ways we would stay warm is by hanging heavy blankets up to block off rooms. We'd gather close to the central part of the house where the kitchen was. Sometimes this meant we all slept in the same room. Plastic on windows went up in early October to prepare. We do the hot pot trick too for the steam.
I'm from the US and my house has central heating like most American homes. I've got some space heaters that I bought when the system failed too. But my energy bills keep going up and up so I'm grateful for this video. I'm going to have to run my furnace colder this year. I can use all of these tricks to keep me warm.
Same I lived in a third story apartment where one winter I didn’t even turn on the furnace cause I got all the heat from the lower levels and all I needed was a space heater
My room is near the roof, so it s cold in the winter and hot in summer. I used an oil radiator for heating it up and an electric blanket in bed. But as the energy prices are so high now, I can t afford that anymore. In Austria they will raise the power supply system prices 30% in January, my energy prices were already raised 25% in October. In summer I take only cold showers, I don t switch on the light anymore in the evening and the bills still get higher and higher! They say it has to do with the war in the Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia...and the climatefriendly new energy sources like solar energy. Already thinking of leaving to a warmer country, but when you are old and not rich, that s not easy. We have winter for half a year, but not a sunny one..only grey and cloudy and dark and wet.😖
What I did was get the aluminum bubble wrap meant for keeping cold out and heat in and put this in my windows. That helped immensely to keep the cold out. For my bed, it is worth it to convert it to a loft "cave" bed where the top is a roof and the sides can take thicker curtains and take that aluminum bubble wrap. I don't wrap all around the bed, because you do want to get air flow in to keep the humidity right. Too high, will make you just as cold as too low will. Last year, my room was 58F. This year it is 64F. Huge difference with that bubble wrap. I got it off of amazon. Electric is expensive, so if you can save up for a Solar power system like Jackery or Bluetti, you can get more solar panels and charge them outside while you use the other battery to plug your heater into. However, people will steal, so that is one consideration.
@@robogal1 I don't know if you have the option but build a four poster bed. They are essentially a small room within a room that traps your body heat and keeps you warm. It doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. It's essentially just 4 bits of lumber in a square and then 4 legs you attach to the bed. Imagine a table without a tabletop stood over your bed. Then you hang heavy curtains - or blankets from a thrift store around the perimeter and top and it will help you stay warm.
I live in Sweden in a pretty well insulated multi-household building with double glazed windows and central heating (indoor temp of at least 20°C guaranteed) and I still wish I had a kotatsu... But I'm a weakling despite being born and bred here 😅 hot water bottles and wool blankets are my friends
In NY, it gets cold, too. We have central heat. The law says when temperatures get to 40 degrees (F) the landlord has to turn on the heating and keep you warm all winter long, or you call the city and complain. The landlord will get in trouble. There are exceptions, but it gets hot in my apartment 😂.
20 is very cold. 23 is a must. It's a bad builiding if you can't regulate the heat yourself. I have heard on Swedish radio, how cold you keep it. I have 3 glaze Windows here in Denmark.
I am older than you and have lived on 3 continents but I love seeing, in any culture, respect and understanding of previous methods of cooking, household, travel et cetera. I have never seen your channel but will follow. You explain these methods very well.I have traveled to Japan numerous times and appreciate practical ways of dealing with life in general. As a British person growing up in India I also saw many eastern ways of dealing with climate et cetera. A natural way instead of a switch for air conditioning or an electric heater. I now now live on the west coast of the US. People are too spoiled to simply flick a switch and something magical happens.These time honoured ways are not only practical but lend to quiet contemplation. I look forward to seeing more on your channel!
I wish it was minus 5 here today. Roasting in Qld, Australia at present. Your lovely home is so different... no clutter, no junk. Thanks for your tips. Stay warm.
They are the most polluting thing in urban areas now - worse than traffic for human health. They emit so much partical polution. Make sure your chimney is cleaned at least once a year, keep the door closed (assuming your burner has one) and maybe ventilate while or after using it, otherwise you are exposing yourself to a lot of partical pollution. I love log burners too but like everything, moderation is key.
I have a weighted blanket, which is filled with pockets of tiny glass beads which keeps me very warm at night and a few weeks ago when the temperstures outdoors in the UK dropped to -5°C , I was very warm and cosy! The Kotatsu is a fantastic, looks so comfortable, cosy and warm.
I like buying "reflectix" material it's like the foil bubble sun visor for your car shape it like a box line it with fabric put your feet in it under the cover it reflects your body heat back at you super warm or hot n electricity needed. You can cut a long piece to make a mat or bed roll out under the sheet simple cheap and effective Bushcraft campers often use them
I started using Reflectix inside my duvet cover last year. This year, thanks to the comment here from Carol, I will be including heated sand, in sand bags or pillow cases, under my duvet, to keep my water bottles from freezing, warming my plants in the green house, and whatever else I can think of. If heated hot enough, it can be used for cooking. Best part is, sand can be reheated indefinitely just using twigs. Thus, saving on expensive firewood. Farmers are using hot sand to keep their animals warm by lowering the barn's ceiling using Reflectix or heavy plastic. And also putting heated sand under their water bowls to keep it from freezing. No worries about fires from heat lamps, or toxic fumes...just hot sand with barriers around it to protect the animals from the heat.😃 One guy used hot sand, in cleaned 55 gallon drums, to heat his home. According to him, the heat lasted for weeks before having to reheat. That will definiteky work for my tiny home that has no electricity or plumbing. Didn't want to deal with frozen pipes or huge utility bills.
@@yesican2012 how do you heat sand in a 55 gallon drum? I also live in a small house so am always looking for inexpensive ways to keep warm, especially when the power goes out, which it does usually every winter between January and April, longest was 13 days without power.
@@moiaddy1 I researched sand batteries, and how homes were kept warm, before electricity, using heavy drapes. I have a wood burning stove in my 16'x28' shed-to-small home conversion. I only use half of that for living space. The rest is for storage. I ordered clear vinyl heavy duty tarps from myteeproducts. They come with gromets that I hang over nails/hooks to divide the shed. It keeps the heat in. The residual heat from the sun through the windows, and from the hot sand, keeps the other half warm enough where my stored water does not freeze. I looked for carpet remnants/area rugs for the floor and walls. Cuts down the drafts. Or, use Reflectix on the walls with fabric/bed sheets over it. Wasn't interested in painting the walls. If I want a different color, I merely change the fabrics. I take them down, or not, when winter is over. I'm in my mid 60s. Didn't grow up with wood burning stoves, so am still nervous about inside fires, chimney fires, creosote buildup, smoke, embers, etc. I live in a wooded area, so I use the abundance of dry twigs/limbs lying around to start a fire OUTSIDE. A fire pit, rocket stoves made from stainless steel cans, or outside kitchen/cooking area made of clay bricks to fire up the sticks under lidded stainless steel pots & pans if that is what you have. I asked the man I ordered the food grade steel drums from, to cut a 55 gallon steel drum lengthwise. You can sand blast it, or burn it outside, to remove the paint and whatever it contained. The other half remains outside to reheat the sand as needed. Since I already have bags of playground sand, I filled large pillow cases, from Goodwill, with sand to make a platform for the steel drum. Insulated the outside of the steel drum with rockwool insulation covered with...yep...Reflectix. Insulation prevents the heat from escaping too fast. If it keeps the small living space too hot, cover half of it. Use an eco fan on the exposed sand for air circulation. The sand should be hot enough to keep a pot of water hot, or to cook/bake with. I don't fry anything in the shed. I do that outside. Besides, I eat mainly soups during winter. Will be attaching a green house to the shed, heated by sand.
@@moiaddy1 I don't remember which video contained the comment of heating sand in 55 gallon steel drums. This was a few years back. He's been doing this for years. Heated the drum(s) of sand in his basement and piped the heat through his house. According to him, that firing lasted for weeks before he had to reheat. Saved himself a lot of firewood. It was an old farm house. So maybe he had a boiler in the basement? The setup was too complicated for me. I wanted simple. Besides, my phobia about woodburning INSIDE the house...😖 But, I am considering talking to a senior neighbor who heats his home with an outside boiler. I already have a hole in my wall for the wood stove, I can use that to pipe the heat from the sand in. Have the fire during the day where I can keep check on it. By nighttime, it will just be embers. So, during winter, heat the sand on my days off or on the weekend. During the work week(s), I return to a warm home with no worries about fires and no utility bills. Since I do not have electricity, I will be using Carol's suggestion of heated bags of sand with me under the blankets...if I need extra warmth. I use one of the smaller Jackery solar generator for light, and to charge my cell phone, rechargeable flashlights and lanterns, using USB, that I bought at Costco. Thanks to the Off Grid with Doug and Stacy channel, I drink my soleil water (Redmond seasalt in purified water) first thing in the morning. I eat one meal a day, my nutrient dense dinner, for breakfast. Fruits or nuts if I want a snack during the day. Drinking the soleil water keeps me satisfied. Thus, I do not need a lot of storage. I am in my declining years. I do not want to leave a pet behind when I die. I take care of the wildlife as best I can, and enjoy the antics of the critters. Not for many people, but it works for me.🙂
Very interesting! In Germany we basically use exclusively central heating (with some exceptions) - a heater in the cellar (old versions use oil or gas, newer versions are mostly heat pumps or pellets) pumps hot water into radiators or floor heaters around the house…so that’s basically it 😁 Some people have an additional fireplace for fun and because of the nice heat, some use additional electric blankets or have a sauna in the house, but that’s mostly optional…
And we also have long-distance heating and short-distance heating. Or you can call it District heating. One Source (garbage incinerator, biogas plant, woodchips, heat pups and other heat sources) and a network of well isulated pipes to the houses and appartments.
I’d just crawl under the table for the winter 😂 I’m always cold even in summer, the only couple of days I didn’t use my blanket during the day in the rubbish summer we had was when it hit 30c 😂
I had to look up rubbish summer. That's a term that I never heard while watching TV shows made in England. Most people don't realize how cool the summers are in the higher latitudes and being an island country.
@ lol sorry, yeah I’m a Brit 😁 some summers are good, this one wasn’t unfortunately, not much sun and lots of rain. Our plants didn’t produce much either
@ ‘rubbish’ used meaning poor or not good is a pretty common word 😁 it wouldn’t be on something posh like Downton Abbey though and historically it wasn’t used the same during that time 😁 🇬🇧🌻 have a great day, midnight Sunday here so bedtime
In the UK, hot water bottles can serve the purpose of heating smaller spaces like your legs or feet. They're flattish rubber bottles that cost between 5 and 10 pound, and you just fill them with boiling water and put one in bed, or use one on your legs (wrap it in a towel or other cover first) to keep toasty if you're sat at a table or on a sofa.
Am I the only person who is thinking that a blanket over an electric heater is a fire's just waiting to break out? In fact, all of these heaters look quite dangerous to me.
In Spain we have braseros, which used to contain embers and are not electric. They are put under tables and over the table we put thick tablecloths. You sit to the table and it's amazing! My friend has one and we meet once a week to handsew around the table with the brasero.
In iran they would use Korsi in old times, that was mostle the same as Kotatsu. Now most of the people have modern heaters with gas or electricity and that table became an iconic symbole of good old days 😊
I remember reading the Little House on the Praire books. Laura Ingalls Wilder said her mother used to put their old flat iron on the wood stove to warm up, then wrap the iron in a cloth, and put it in the foot of her bed to warm Laura's feet in winter. The two sisters slept in the same bed to keep warm, too.
In northeast America we would die overnight without actual house heating. It’s so cold that the ground is frozen over a meter deep from December to March. Consider yourself lucky. ❤
Hey Canadian guy here. Awesome to see the heated table with blanket, I could see that being fun. But the best way to stay warm IMO is to go outside for atleast an hour of the day, gets the body used to the cold then move inside. The rest of the day you’ll be warm inside.
I love learning these things. We have central heating (gas powered furnaces, blowing hot air through vents in all rooms). But I also had a wood stove that worked with a fan to blow air through the vents as well.
Yass! My Grandma is a nightmare when it comes to Christmas. She loves to open gifts and say, “Oh, didn’t you get me that last year?” I’m getting her one of those tables, I’ll finally beat her at her game! 😅
I would like to know what your quilts/blankets are made off, what your pillows are made of and your mattress'. Do the elderly have trouble with these kinds of mattresses? How long do they last? How do you clean them.?
Just watching you showing us all these things made me feel so warm ♥ I used a kotatsu only once. It was in Gifu and the weather was pretty bad. We went on a walk through Gujo Hachiman in the rain. Returning to the airbnb and sliding under the warm kotatsu felt so nice!
I've been wearing a heated vest a friend got me one year for Xmas. It's fantastic. Helps me keep warm. In my room at night I use a heated blanket to get warmed up as needed. I charge the vest battery at night so i jave it to wear during the day. Lots of layers of course to wear, even a toque indoors. It's all helped.
I lived in my grandparents house (in the mountains) for a year and winter was so cold. They didn’t have central heating or cooling, but a pellet stove downstairs, a pellet stove in the living room, and a fireplace in the kitchen. Each room had an electric heater that I swear barely worked. I slept up against a window lol so maybe I wasn’t in the best position but this video reminded me of a life without central heating. I’m grateful for my 75° house 😊
Yes you are lucky. I wish I had that but the furnace guy wanted 10k to replace the old one, so now it's just heaters and the wood burning stove. We can usually get it to around 60 degrees.
We build good, insulated houses with 3 glaze Windows here in Scandinavia. Then I have a pellets oven, a air to air heater and heat cables in the bathroom floor.
I have a special gas furnase which ehats up on the top so I can put a kettle on there to heat that up as well. I also have mint leaves growing on my patio so I put some of those in the pot of hot water as well to add a fregance to the air and it also makes a pretty good cup of tea when I need it.
When I went to Japan on a snowy day I would walk outside in a shirt and shorts and got a lot of stares. I'd like to thank Wim Hof for teaching how to live in the cold without feeling cold.
In South Africa, our homes are built to be cool during summers as it get very hot here. Sadly we don't have any protection from the cold. My old childhood home on the farm was built with two rows of bricks with a layer of space in between. This buffer of space helps to seperate the cold outside air from the warmer inside. As an adult I wear a full tracksuit to bed with hot water bottle and 3 blankets to keep warm xD
Thank you for the genuine information about keeping away from the coldness during the Winter. I think "futons" are very warm and comfortable to sleep in. Good luck to you.
Lovely homes and lifestyle. I rely on a closed wood stove for 50% of our heat. But, I would love to have a traditional Japanese style bath tub; short in length but tall. Can you show one in a video?
Duvets of down or wool are fabulous. Thermal curtains for windows and curtains to cover doors. Wool sox and sweaters and lots of hot drinks. I live in Canada and it can get blessedly cold come January. It’s not always sooooo cold but on those days,bundle up and dress appropriately.
So clever! What about heating pads? I had an extra large one and use that throughout the day and many nights when I don't want or need a whole room heated.
I am confused about the water to melt snow on the sidewalk... wouldn't you just be making a lot of slippery ice? how do the pipes not also freeze? I am originally form the area around lake Michigan, where the winters are very cold. We have to shovel the snow, and sometimes use salt to melt the ice.
I have two thick and heavy “ Korean” blankets (actually made in China) on my bed…I sleep on one and use the other one (when it’s really cold) to cover myself. If something happened that the electricity and furnace went off I’d sleep under both blankets.
I hate cold weather as I live in a warm climate in Florida USA. Like all the smart ways of being warm during those freezing cold temperatures there in Japan. Thank you for this video. Keep warm !!!
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Thank you for watching! I'll reply gradually to your comments! Stay warm!
Thankyou for the knowledge. However, I recommend that everyone stop using kerosene stoves/heaters. Burning kerosene causes cancer.
@@SimonAshworthWood A million things cause cancer!
Thank you. I am serious about getting a Japanese mattress I thought you well suited for a recommendation. ありがとうございます
OH MY GOD! What you call Kotatsu in Japan, we call a KORSEE in Iran!! This is our main winter family tradition. All families set one up for the winter months! Amazing!
In the UK we huddle around a single candle to keep warm and when it gets really cold, we light it.
😂😂😂😂
Ohhh GOSH! 😂😂😂
lol i get cold easy heater year round 3 heater and a heat pad/blanket on high
Love it
LOL I can confirm this as I spent a winter there and that candle did the trick.
I just got used to the cold because I'm Irish and I don't want to let the weather think it's winning.
@@tziirkq love it!!!!!
Same in Scotland. Sometimes we don’t even bother wearing coats just to show the weather who’s boss. 😅
Ireland rarely gets cold though, Japan gets regular -5°C to -10°C, even worse in the mountains
Am dead 💀
@@rubybuttons668doesn't matter if it's below zero. If it isn't raining, then it's taps aff weather.
There was an America rock band that chose to name themselves "The Three Dog Night". Apparently, nights in Alaska can get so cold, that on the coldest nights it is best to have three dogs sleeping with you.
Australian band. They say that there as well.
Sleeping with dogs or other animals to keep warm has been a thing for thousands of years.
@@kellymoses8566yes, in medieval castles the animals were the primary comfort from the cold for the servants.
@@midnightsun9559 who what where "australian" what are you talking about? Three Dog Night started in LOS ANGELES which, last I checked, is not located down under.
Not "THE", just "Three Dog Night". Why do people do that? Always throwing an extra THE in front of a band's name? Sometime it's part of the name and sometimes it isn't. The band "The The" was literally named because of that stupidity.
Makes you realise how lucky we were growing up with central heating and a hearth in the living room.
Lucky? Grew up carrying firewood everyday. These guys don't have the wood resources to burn, had to do other ways. Good thing to look into.
But now we have kotatsu poverty. Was it worth it?
im gen z..wtf is a hearth?
@@bunniewood Fireplace.
I didn’t grow up with electricity and still have damage to my hands and feet. Most people on Earth do t have central heating.
Im in the uk and i boil water in my kettle and fill up a hot water bottle which are made from natural rubber They are pretty much always sold with a fluffy cover now and you can wrap a blanket around you and hug the hot water bottle and you keep lovely and warm.
One in the bed at night is ACES! Put beneath your covers before climbing in... _Ahhh. The best_ welcome, and it lasts throughout the night. (Get a long one if possible!) Sometimes I just lay it near my feet. I also have one whose cover has loops, so you can drape it around your body hands-free. Those such loops can be sewn on (for anyone interested). Fantastic buys, very small investment, WORTH MANY times over. *HIGHLY recommend.*
There are bottles 1 meter long now with y fluffy cover! I got one in my bed.wonderful!😊
In Germany it's called "Wärmflasche".
Same, though I am Swedish.
Check out 5:25
Great video. I have a heated electric blanket. I can carry it around the house and plug it in on the couch, in bed etc. changed my life!
Sounds like my sister. She calls it her "electric husband." She calls her heating pad her "electric boyfriend." She'll be 72 Friday.
@donotneed2250 love this. I shall also call it my electric husband. Happy birthday to her when it comes 🎉
@katcookwontcook8945 , she's currently drooling. I just took a batch of cheddar biscuits out and sent her a picture. I make them from scratch...
I like the heated mattress pad/cover :)
@@donotneed2250 she need to get "bamboo wife" for summer time.
We live in Colorado in the USA and have a small home above a restaurant that is open seven days a week from 11 to 11. They use a beautiful fire pit in the center of the restaurant that keeps our bathroom cozy in the Winter. Our flat is above the restaurant kitchens too making our utility bill low in the Winter.
Our two Toshiba cooling units helps in the Summer time. We love our home and feel blessed to live in a beautiful Old World structure in a lovely historical neighborhood full of beauty and charm.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful home and helpful tips for keeping warm. Sending gratitude from our sacred patch to all ❤
That sounds pretty cool actually. Do you get free leftovers
Hey from another Coloradan living in the UK now
Me trying to figure out which restaurant 😂😂
there's nothing worse than a cold toilet seat in winter :(
Living in Colorado, mild winters here ... western slope
Great video, its helpful that you spelled out the items for everyone. I love watching videos from all over the world everyone can learn something from somewhere else :)
In Spain we use what we call "Mesa Camilla" which is similar to your grandma's table. They were very typical in Spain in the past decades, mostly used in the old times when the houses had not heating. You could find 1or 2 in every house. Nowadays they are disappearing. Thank you for your content 😊
They aren't disappearing, they are an stament piece of Andalusian winters. You will find one in almost every household 💛🔥
Siguen igual de vigentes en los hogares españoles, sobre todo rurales!
Yes, they are still popular in Mallorca, Spain. Most people use an electric heater now-a-days but my mother-in-law still makes the traditional 'Brasero' with almond husk coals.
When I lived in Spain, there were every winter many deaths by asphyxiation because the old fashioned radiators literally used up all the oxygen in the room. Our family changed to the much saver electric radiators.
When I studied in Alicante, none of the apartments had any heat. Winter nights were damp and cold. It was a rude awakening coming from the US where homes have heat, especially when you get up to use the bathroom in the early morning and the floor is literally stone cold.
In the UK we sit around drinking tea and watching TV in our dark, cild, wet winters. Our version of Kotatsu is a big hairy dog lying on your feet under the table waiting for someone to sneak him or her treats (which we all do whilst swearing blind we don't)..
I have a log burner and a cat- with at least 5 cups of tea a day, of course!
Very true ( for extreme conditions two Labrador's are advised )
Don’t forget hot water bottle.
My new one I had for a week popped! I’m not impressed.
@@clivebonehill3348Three dog night
I’m up here in northern Canada on the west coast and winter is -40c for weeks on end. We all just pile into one room with blankets, cozy sleep wear and hot coco into a small-ish room. You’d be surprised how much heat a few bodies throw off. We have to throw open two windows open three times a day to keep the temp and humidity (and body odour) down.
Body odor? Do you not wash daily?
It's 20c here still and it's supposed to be winter, I have never seen this before
@ Yes we do. But being in a room with multiple people and no ventilation tends to create ‘stuffy’ air. It doesn’t stink per se, but it’s not exactly a pleasant smell and indicates higher humidity, which is not something you want.
@@SpacemanTheo It is 8°C here in Netherlands but we get the upper wind layer directly from Greenland sometimes. I want to know how you people live there and if it would be possible to go to Northern Sweden in winter with similarish temperatures. My pro tip is don't use polyester just wool for your bed and socks. it's natural and not sweaty and sticky and glides easily. Every coat has to be rain and wind resistant we can have very chilly and wet weather where people are not advised to even leave their house. Where exactly in North Canada are you? Do you work from home ? I am very curious.
@ I’m just south of Yukon Territory, and I work as maintenance in a warehouse. No one around here in their right mind would wear polyester if they do hard labour during any time of the year. We get ‘cold snaps’ with Arctic winds and our high altitude and the temp will drop from an average of -25c to -40c in the matter of a day. Right now, it’s unusual warm, but come January and definitely in February we have to bundle up and be very thoughtful if we go out.
Thank you for watching! Today is the coldest day in Japan (even in Tokyo -5°)😂Please let me hear your opinion about cold protection items I use ( ^ω^ ).
Lucky you. Here we can get to -51 with the wind chill. Most of the winter is between -20 to - 40 Celsius 😅
@@Filomena4ever Same here in Mongolia. Unfortunately we don't have that many heating option outside the city in the Gers. Mostly woodstoves, but those are killing for the lungs. Solar power is slowly become an alternative (daytime) but doesn't provide enough heat if you have and old style ger. You need a modern super insulated one. Oil heated exists, but it's noisy, plus you would need to travel far to get fuel for it. Not a fan of fossil fuel use.
Great tools, I worry little with fire risks with some items. Ie kerosine do you have good smoke alarms and check weekly. Thanks
In the UK we wear layers of clothes in winter we have long underpants called Long Johns made from thermal material same for vests. As an older person I walk and cycle to keep warm during the day. When the weather is really bad, with cold wind and rain I hibernate. The cost of heating is deplorable but just fine if you are wealthy. I do the five animal exercises to keep warm. Hot water bottle for bed is a must as I cannot sleep with windows closed.
I want a house with irori. Some day.....
Your house is so beautiful! Thank you for hosting us.
I wear layers, my house can be anywhere between 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit, I used to keep it much warmer for my senior dogs but they both passed last year, so now I just bundle up to save on electric costs. I have a blanket warmer, it is a warmer that goes between your flat sheet and your blankets, I get home and turn it on, it warms the entire bed and mattress, then I turn it off when I go to bed. I live alone so it helps keep me warm and warms my feet up. When the power goes out, literally every winter between January and April, has been out for up to 13 days at a time. I get my sub zero sleeping bag out and I have a propane heater. I had hoped to have a wood stove this winter, didn't make it but am striving for next.
Edited to add: Fahrenheit
A wood stove really heats up a house. I have a 2,000sq foot house and live in Michigan. When the power goes out in the winter we use our old wood burning stove. The room it's in gets to like 80°. I can sleep comfortably in my bedroom on the 2nd floor on the other side of the house with a hoodie and my comforter. It's probably about 50° in there. Not ideal, but livable.
So sorry about your dogs 😢
Where do you live that you lose power for days at a time?
@@Magdalenasfearswe live in middle Arkansas USA. We only heat to 60 then turn off heat. When I wake up I will turn it on again until it gets to 60 and shut it off. Lowest I have seen it is about 45. Which is a little too cool. Rough on us old people! No back up in case electric fails. Which is worrisome.
@capitalb5889 I live in the PNW but I am at the end of the grid in my little area/neighborhood, so when the power goes out from a storm, the people on my road are the last to get power back on, here you can live 1 mile from the main street and be considered "rural". If you live "rural", you are last to get power back, which means no water either because everyone is on a well. I live in a very "mild" climate zone, the last 20 years the weather has changed so much! We have had ice storms where the ice is 3-4 inches thick, down to negative 15 degrees, 24 inches of snow overnight and another 19 inches of snow the next day, conversely, in the summer we have had 112 degrees and been evacuated for wild fires. All of these "rare events" as they USED to call them are becoming all too commonplace. The area I live in USED to have highs maximum mid 90's, maximum a foot of snow over the course of the whole winter....anything outside of that was a considered a rare event, then they became events, now it is just winter or summer doing it's thing.
Kotatsu were quite popular in the PNW when I was in uni! A lot of older houses don't keep the heat in very well, so they made a very welcome warm spot to do homework. Electric blankets are also really popular underneath you in bed. If you sleep on them, though, they really make it hard to want to get out of bed in the cold morning 😂
Yeah! 😅
Just 20 W/hour... and it feels like heaven!!! 🤩
I live in the US, but I'm grateful for a woid stove. Source of heat, and if the power goes out, I can still cook as well as stay warm.
I made sand bag foot warmers for my MIL. 1 or 2 minutes in microwave heats the sand nicely. I would put them in her bed at the foot area about 20 minutes before she went to bed. She fell asleep easier when her feet were warm.
What a good idea!
I make hot socks, long socks filled with dry white rice, tied in knot at end. Microwave 2 minutes, and they last for years. You can add essential oil to the sock itself for wonderful scent aromas. We gave these as gifts for the holidays and my family loved them! I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and they help me so much!🌞🌻🌻🌻✨💛
@SunshinesART I used to make them with rice, but why waste the food? Sand is free.
@@SunshinesART I have terrible RA too, so I'll try this, thanks!!! 🥰 Do I need to know anything else, or put anything else in it, like a preservative or anything? Or just straight dried white rice, in a tied sock, with the essentials oils on the outside?
Fantastic idea, Carol!
Since I don't have electricity or plumbing, I was loking for a way to keep my drinking water bottles from freezing. Hot sand in sand bags, enclosed within a box made of thick styrofoam panels, will do the trick.
Will also incude some heated sand bags, on my bed, under my Reflectix duvet cover.
AND, heated sand bags to keep my plants from freezing in the greenhouse, and keep my tiny home WARM.
I can reheat the sand indefinitely with twigs lying around. I may not need to buy expensive firewood again.
Thank you so very much!
Oh, happy days!!!🥳
Easy. Put two chiba inus in the bed, one on each side for body warmth.
What is that?
@@majvlierop Shiba Inu is a breed of dog from Japan. A very nice breed of dog, I might add.
My nephew has one...she is a big GORGEOUS fluff ball!!😊❤
@@invincibel4007okay! Thank you. Ik had never heard of them before. Very curious what they look like 🙂
@@invincibel4007yes. I know the breed. I just didn't know what they are called😊 They look lovely!!
This is so interesting TY but it all looks like a fire hazard to me! I live in the uk I swear by 1) hot water bottles, 2) blankets 3) Fleece bedding 4)Jumpers
or central heating.
One of the ways we would stay warm is by hanging heavy blankets up to block off rooms. We'd gather close to the central part of the house where the kitchen was. Sometimes this meant we all slept in the same room. Plastic on windows went up in early October to prepare. We do the hot pot trick too for the steam.
I'm from the US and my house has central heating like most American homes. I've got some space heaters that I bought when the system failed too. But my energy bills keep going up and up so I'm grateful for this video. I'm going to have to run my furnace colder this year. I can use all of these tricks to keep me warm.
Same I lived in a third story apartment where one winter I didn’t even turn on the furnace cause I got all the heat from the lower levels and all I needed was a space heater
Make sure you keep the temp at a minimum of 65 degrees--lower than that and the immune system suffers.
My room is near the roof, so it s cold in the winter and hot in summer. I used an oil radiator for heating it up and an electric blanket in bed. But as the energy prices are so high now, I can t afford that anymore. In Austria they will raise the power supply system prices 30% in January, my energy prices were already raised 25% in October. In summer I take only cold showers, I don t switch on the light anymore in the evening and the bills still get higher and higher! They say it has to do with the war in the Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia...and the climatefriendly new energy sources like solar energy. Already thinking of leaving to a warmer country, but when you are old and not rich, that s not easy. We have winter for half a year, but not a sunny one..only grey and cloudy and dark and wet.😖
What I did was get the aluminum bubble wrap meant for keeping cold out and heat in and put this in my windows. That helped immensely to keep the cold out. For my bed, it is worth it to convert it to a loft "cave" bed where the top is a roof and the sides can take thicker curtains and take that aluminum bubble wrap. I don't wrap all around the bed, because you do want to get air flow in to keep the humidity right. Too high, will make you just as cold as too low will. Last year, my room was 58F. This year it is 64F. Huge difference with that bubble wrap. I got it off of amazon.
Electric is expensive, so if you can save up for a Solar power system like Jackery or Bluetti, you can get more solar panels and charge them outside while you use the other battery to plug your heater into. However, people will steal, so that is one consideration.
@@robogal1 I don't know if you have the option but build a four poster bed. They are essentially a small room within a room that traps your body heat and keeps you warm. It doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. It's essentially just 4 bits of lumber in a square and then 4 legs you attach to the bed. Imagine a table without a tabletop stood over your bed. Then you hang heavy curtains - or blankets from a thrift store around the perimeter and top and it will help you stay warm.
I don't live in japan but when it is really cold I wear a stocking cap to bed also.
Same. I also used to live in a farm house and had a wood stove for heating.
While having chemo and no hair I wore a hat to bed to keep me warm.
I wear a knit neck warmer. Really works
Yep, kind of validates the old saying by American outdoorsmen “If your hands are cold, put on a hat.”
As a bald guy in the upper Midwest US, I do the same thing. For some reason, my dog likes to sit on anything knit, so I get a little extra head cover.
I live in Sweden in a pretty well insulated multi-household building with double glazed windows and central heating (indoor temp of at least 20°C guaranteed) and I still wish I had a kotatsu... But I'm a weakling despite being born and bred here 😅 hot water bottles and wool blankets are my friends
In NY, it gets cold, too. We have central heat. The law says when temperatures get to 40 degrees (F) the landlord has to turn on the heating and keep you warm all winter long, or you call the city and complain. The landlord will get in trouble. There are exceptions, but it gets hot in my apartment 😂.
I'm in the UK and I struggle to sleep sometimes if my bedroom is over 18° 😄
@@michaelqdlapYou keep the sleeping room cooler. I need 23 degrees in thd rest if the house.
20 is very cold. 23 is a must. It's a bad builiding if you can't regulate the heat yourself. I have heard on Swedish radio, how cold you keep it. I have 3 glaze Windows here in Denmark.
Japan, please, learn from Sweden!
I am older than you and have lived on 3 continents but I love seeing, in any culture, respect and understanding of previous methods of cooking, household, travel et cetera.
I have never seen your channel but will follow.
You explain these methods very well.I have traveled to Japan numerous times and appreciate practical ways of dealing with life in general.
As a British person growing up in India I also saw many eastern ways of dealing with climate et cetera.
A natural way instead of a switch for air conditioning or an electric heater.
I now now live on the west coast of the US. People are too spoiled to simply flick a switch and something magical happens.These time honoured ways are not only practical but lend to quiet contemplation.
I look forward to seeing more on your channel!
I enjoyed learning about how you stay warm! 🙂
Thank you for watching😉 Stay warm😘
I wish it was minus 5 here today. Roasting in Qld, Australia at present. Your lovely home is so different... no clutter, no junk. Thanks for your tips. Stay warm.
Wow.this makes me so thankful for our wood burner stoves. It was the very best thing we installed 2 years ago. We are finally warm!
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They are the most polluting thing in urban areas now - worse than traffic for human health. They emit so much partical polution. Make sure your chimney is cleaned at least once a year, keep the door closed (assuming your burner has one) and maybe ventilate while or after using it, otherwise you are exposing yourself to a lot of partical pollution. I love log burners too but like everything, moderation is key.
@@thebrowns5337 It depends upon the stove type. The newer ones have catalytic heating and are EPA certified.
I have a weighted blanket, which is filled with pockets of tiny glass beads which keeps me very warm at night and a few weeks ago when the temperstures outdoors in the UK dropped to -5°C , I was very warm and cosy!
The Kotatsu is a fantastic, looks so comfortable, cosy and warm.
I've spent English winter once in my life so I understand how cold there is😉 You have central heating which we don't have!
Thank you for watching😊
I like buying "reflectix" material it's like the foil bubble sun visor for your car shape it like a box line it with fabric put your feet in it under the cover it reflects your body heat back at you super warm or hot n electricity needed. You can cut a long piece to make a mat or bed roll out under the sheet simple cheap and effective Bushcraft campers often use them
I started using Reflectix inside my duvet cover last year.
This year, thanks to the comment here from Carol, I will be including heated sand, in sand bags or pillow cases, under my duvet, to keep my water bottles from freezing, warming my plants in the green house, and whatever else I can think of. If heated hot enough, it can be used for cooking.
Best part is, sand can be reheated indefinitely just using twigs. Thus, saving on expensive firewood.
Farmers are using hot sand to keep their animals warm by lowering the barn's ceiling using Reflectix or heavy plastic. And also putting heated sand under their water bowls to keep it from freezing.
No worries about fires from heat lamps, or toxic fumes...just hot sand with barriers around it to protect the animals from the heat.😃
One guy used hot sand, in cleaned 55 gallon drums, to heat his home. According to him, the heat lasted for weeks before having to reheat.
That will definiteky work for my tiny home that has no electricity or plumbing. Didn't want to deal with frozen pipes or huge utility bills.
@@yesican2012 how do you heat sand in a 55 gallon drum? I also live in a small house so am always looking for inexpensive ways to keep warm, especially when the power goes out, which it does usually every winter between January and April, longest was 13 days without power.
@@moiaddy1
I researched sand batteries, and how homes were kept warm, before electricity, using heavy drapes.
I have a wood burning stove in my 16'x28' shed-to-small home conversion. I only use half of that for living space. The rest is for storage. I ordered clear vinyl heavy duty tarps from myteeproducts. They come with gromets that I hang over nails/hooks to divide the shed. It keeps the heat in. The residual heat from the sun through the windows, and from the hot sand, keeps the other half warm enough where my stored water does not freeze.
I looked for carpet remnants/area rugs for the floor and walls. Cuts down the drafts. Or, use Reflectix on the walls with fabric/bed sheets over it. Wasn't interested in painting the walls. If I want a different color, I merely change the fabrics. I take them down, or not, when winter is over.
I'm in my mid 60s. Didn't grow up with wood burning stoves, so am still nervous about inside fires, chimney fires, creosote buildup, smoke, embers, etc. I live in a wooded area, so I use the abundance of dry twigs/limbs lying around to start a fire OUTSIDE.
A fire pit, rocket stoves made from stainless steel cans, or outside kitchen/cooking area made of clay bricks to fire up the sticks under lidded stainless steel pots & pans if that is what you have.
I asked the man I ordered the food grade steel drums from, to cut a 55 gallon steel drum lengthwise. You can sand blast it, or burn it outside, to remove the paint and whatever it contained. The other half remains outside to reheat the sand as needed.
Since I already have bags of playground sand, I filled large pillow cases, from Goodwill, with sand to make a platform for the steel drum. Insulated the outside of the steel drum with rockwool insulation covered with...yep...Reflectix. Insulation prevents the heat from escaping too fast.
If it keeps the small living space too hot, cover half of it. Use an eco fan on the exposed sand for air circulation. The sand should be hot enough to keep a pot of water hot, or to cook/bake with. I don't fry anything in the shed. I do that outside. Besides, I eat mainly soups during winter.
Will be attaching a green house to the shed, heated by sand.
@@moiaddy1
I don't remember which video contained the comment of heating sand in 55 gallon steel drums. This was a few years back.
He's been doing this for years. Heated the drum(s) of sand in his basement and piped the heat through his house. According to him, that firing lasted for weeks before he had to reheat. Saved himself a lot of firewood.
It was an old farm house. So maybe he had a boiler in the basement? The setup was too complicated for me. I wanted simple. Besides, my phobia about woodburning INSIDE the house...😖
But, I am considering talking to a senior neighbor who heats his home with an outside boiler. I already have a hole in my wall for the wood stove, I can use that to pipe the heat from the sand in. Have the fire during the day where I can keep check on it. By nighttime, it will just be embers.
So, during winter, heat the sand on my days off or on the weekend. During the work week(s), I return to a warm home with no worries about fires and no utility bills.
Since I do not have electricity, I will be using Carol's suggestion of heated bags of sand with me under the blankets...if I need extra warmth.
I use one of the smaller Jackery solar generator for light, and to charge my cell phone, rechargeable flashlights and lanterns, using USB, that I bought at Costco.
Thanks to the Off Grid with Doug and Stacy channel, I drink my soleil water (Redmond seasalt in purified water) first thing in the morning. I eat one meal a day, my nutrient dense dinner, for breakfast. Fruits or nuts if I want a snack during the day. Drinking the soleil water keeps me satisfied. Thus, I do not need a lot of storage.
I am in my declining years. I do not want to leave a pet behind when I die. I take care of the wildlife as best I can, and enjoy the antics of the critters.
Not for many people, but it works for me.🙂
I made a reflective pillow for my elderly cat. She loves it!
Very interesting! In Germany we basically use exclusively central heating (with some exceptions) - a heater in the cellar (old versions use oil or gas, newer versions are mostly heat pumps or pellets) pumps hot water into radiators or floor heaters around the house…so that’s basically it 😁 Some people have an additional fireplace for fun and because of the nice heat, some use additional electric blankets or have a sauna in the house, but that’s mostly optional…
And we also have long-distance heating and short-distance heating. Or you can call it District heating. One Source (garbage incinerator, biogas plant, woodchips, heat pups and other heat sources) and a network of well isulated pipes to the houses and appartments.
This was so popular in the past in Iran, but is still used in remote villages and towns.
A Kursi! I heard they are wonderful, and the family loves sitting around it, telling stories, drinking tea, in the cold winter!
I dated an Iranian man that told me about his family using this.
@KA-vr4uu Thank you for watching and sharing your ways too😊
Thank you for this video ❤
Thank you for your comment! We are going to upload the summer version at this weekend😉
@@JapanwithNao Wow. I'm waiting for that.
I’d just crawl under the table for the winter 😂 I’m always cold even in summer, the only couple of days I didn’t use my blanket during the day in the rubbish summer we had was when it hit 30c 😂
I had to look up rubbish summer. That's a term that I never heard while watching TV shows made in England. Most people don't realize how cool the summers are in the higher latitudes and being an island country.
@ lol sorry, yeah I’m a Brit 😁 some summers are good, this one wasn’t unfortunately, not much sun and lots of rain. Our plants didn’t produce much either
@ ‘rubbish’ used meaning poor or not good is a pretty common word 😁 it wouldn’t be on something posh like Downton Abbey though and historically it wasn’t used the same during that time 😁 🇬🇧🌻 have a great day, midnight Sunday here so bedtime
Thinking about the temperature increasing every summer, it could be too early to use "rubbish summer"😉 Thank you for watching!
@ this year was really really rubbish and very low temperature even for the uk 😣
In the UK, hot water bottles can serve the purpose of heating smaller spaces like your legs or feet.
They're flattish rubber bottles that cost between 5 and 10 pound, and you just fill them with boiling water and put one in bed, or use one on your legs (wrap it in a towel or other cover first) to keep toasty if you're sat at a table or on a sofa.
He literally uses one in the video.
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I’m using electric blanket for my bed…and turning it off when I’m really sleepy…cause, if not it would be real sweaty 🥵.
Me too! Otherwise, we need to wash our blanket next day.haha
Always put a sheet over or under it to keep it cleaner 😁 I love my electric blankets
Seventh Heaven for 20 W/hour! 🤩
😂😂😂, it's true...
Wonderful invitation.
Am I the only person who is thinking that a blanket over an electric heater is a fire's just waiting to break out? In fact, all of these heaters look quite dangerous to me.
Using kerosene heaters instead of a wood burner I'd say a blanket covering a heater is least of the worries 😂
We’re not all dumb Americans who need everything to account for people not having common sense.
That kind of table + heater + blanket combination has been used forever in Spain ("brasero"). You have to be careful, for sure, but it's so so common.
I don't think it's dangerous as long as it's designed properly, it's like an electric blanket
I have a heating device that sits on my feet and keeps them warm. It's called a chihuahua...😏
Very chic
does it need batteries ??
Chilli-huahua
Me too, but mine's called a cat.🐈
I think it's the other way around. You're keeping the chihuahua warm with your feet.
I live in a tropical area with no winter at all, and I realize how blessed I am
Yeah but the tropics have other problems.
In Spain we have braseros, which used to contain embers and are not electric. They are put under tables and over the table we put thick tablecloths. You sit to the table and it's amazing! My friend has one and we meet once a week to handsew around the table with the brasero.
It's interesting to think that watching TV has now become a tradition, makes me feel very old!
Yeah, I thought, no, that's not traditional Japanese. Much too modern.
The kotatsu saved my sanity during my first winter in Japan. I think I might have lost my mind to the cold without it. I love it so much!
In iran they would use Korsi in old times, that was mostle the same as Kotatsu. Now most of the people have modern heaters with gas or electricity and that table became an iconic symbole of good old days 😊
I remember reading the Little House on the Praire books. Laura Ingalls Wilder said her mother used to put their old flat iron on the wood stove to warm up, then wrap the iron in a cloth, and put it in the foot of her bed to warm Laura's feet in winter. The two sisters slept in the same bed to keep warm, too.
In northeast America we would die overnight without actual house heating. It’s so cold that the ground is frozen over a meter deep from December to March. Consider yourself lucky. ❤
In Hokkaido, which is closer to Russia and is colder than the rest of Japan, they have centralized heating.
And yet pre industrial native tribes lived in those same areas for centuries. I too live in NE USA. Basic shelter is required. Central heating is not.
@@mrmicro22 Well, it depends. There are so many factors to consider between modern times and 100+ years ago. Too many to discuss here.
Lotta homeless in the Northeast. Come spring, still seems to be a lot of homeless. People are tough.
Millions of people in Hokkaido do not have central heating.
Hey Canadian guy here. Awesome to see the heated table with blanket, I could see that being fun. But the best way to stay warm IMO is to go outside for atleast an hour of the day, gets the body used to the cold then move inside. The rest of the day you’ll be warm inside.
I enjoyed this video a lot. It made me feel warm and cozy. I also really like your haircut! Looking forward to your next videos.
Thank you for watching and for your nice words! I'll keep posting new videos!😊
I love learning these things. We have central heating (gas powered furnaces, blowing hot air through vents in all rooms). But I also had a wood stove that worked with a fan to blow air through the vents as well.
Thanks for sharing this video. I have a few of these items. I think down blankets would help too.
Long live Japan, you guys are the the best! Sincerely "most" Americans!
Thank you for watching😉 I'm glad to hear that you have a good time in Japan💯
Some great 👍 ideas for keeping warm in winter 😊.
Thanks for sharing 👍 greetings from England 🏴 Simon and Beth ❤❤❤
I just looked, Amazon carries these tables…. How cool is that?
You need a Japan to US converter for most of them. The power output of US outlets is higher and can burn them out or cause a fire.
Yass! My Grandma is a nightmare when it comes to Christmas. She loves to open gifts and say, “Oh, didn’t you get me that last year?” I’m getting her one of those tables, I’ll finally beat her at her game! 😅
@bonnitaclaus2286 That's really comfortable😘 Thank you for watching!
Very cozy! Stay warm this Winter!!!
I am going to make my own Kotatsu - thanks for the ideas!
The Spanish also have their own form the kotatsu that you could check out.
@@capitalb5889 THANKS!!!!
Thanks a lot... It's nice seeing you explaining how to feel comfy in Japan😁
I would like to know what your quilts/blankets are made off, what your pillows are made of and your mattress'. Do the elderly have trouble with these kinds of mattresses? How long do they last? How do you clean them.?
Just watching you showing us all these things made me feel so warm ♥ I used a kotatsu only once. It was in Gifu and the weather was pretty bad. We went on a walk through Gujo Hachiman in the rain. Returning to the airbnb and sliding under the warm kotatsu felt so nice!
I remember the kerosene heaters of my youth........the smell of it, ugh! Especially after it's switched off
My Nan had one in her kitchen…they smelled bad…glad we don’t have to use those anymore.
I miss that smell. Reminds me of my childhood. That and lamp oil for our hurricane lamps.
I turned mine off on the balcony so the shut off smell stayed outside.
😊thank you. very cool.
The UK is very similar some of us have developed the ability to hibernate in winter. We wear many layers of clothes all designed for winter.
I've been wearing a heated vest a friend got me one year for Xmas. It's fantastic. Helps me keep warm. In my room at night I use a heated blanket to get warmed up as needed. I charge the vest battery at night so i jave it to wear during the day. Lots of layers of course to wear, even a toque indoors. It's all helped.
Your house looks like one from Japanese drama. Lovely
Thank you for your comment!
It’s an old house though 😆
I lived in my grandparents house (in the mountains) for a year and winter was so cold. They didn’t have central heating or cooling, but a pellet stove downstairs, a pellet stove in the living room, and a fireplace in the kitchen. Each room had an electric heater that I swear barely worked. I slept up against a window lol so maybe I wasn’t in the best position but this video reminded me of a life without central heating. I’m grateful for my 75° house 😊
Yes you are lucky. I wish I had that but the furnace guy wanted 10k to replace the old one, so now it's just heaters and the wood burning stove. We can usually get it to around 60 degrees.
Japanese people have a beautiful culture. The whole world should take lessons on how to live the Japanese way, imo.
I do not want to go without heat and air conditioning! I live in the Appalachian mountains and you would not survive without it!
I couldn't agree more!❤
@@Mithras444 Ditto!!
This is so nice . Orange is so beautiful against the snow
So cool. Thank you sir
Your information is so valuable!! Thank you! 🌺
We build good, insulated houses with 3 glaze Windows here in Scandinavia. Then I have a pellets oven, a air to air heater and heat cables in the bathroom floor.
I have a special gas furnase which ehats up on the top so I can put a kettle on there to heat that up as well. I also have mint leaves growing on my patio so I put some of those in the pot of hot water as well to add a fregance to the air and it also makes a pretty good cup of tea when I need it.
When I went to Japan on a snowy day I would walk outside in a shirt and shorts and got a lot of stares. I'd like to thank Wim Hof for teaching how to live in the cold without feeling cold.
In South Africa, our homes are built to be cool during summers as it get very hot here. Sadly we don't have any protection from the cold. My old childhood home on the farm was built with two rows of bricks with a layer of space in between. This buffer of space helps to seperate the cold outside air from the warmer inside.
As an adult I wear a full tracksuit to bed with hot water bottle and 3 blankets to keep warm xD
Wah your house has everything!
Thank you for your comment! We need them in winter to survive…😂
Just found your channel and this was SUPER interesting & informative!
Thank you so much for sharing!✨♥️✨
I like this having several smaller heaters is a good idea.
That's what we do
You can move them everywhere in the house😘 Thank you for watching😊
That was great; thank you! 🥳
The open hearth is so cool.
Thank you for the genuine information about keeping away from the coldness during the Winter. I think "futons" are very warm and comfortable to sleep in. Good luck to you.
What a beautiful home you have!
Your bed looks so comfy, I love sleeping on the floor.
I use a 100% woollen blanket as a sheet.
SO much warmer than a flannelette sheet.
奈緒さん、どうがをつくってありがとうございます。アメリカのミッドワェストで、時々とても寒くなりますね。ここでこたつがありません、ざんねんですね。おふろとゆたんぽとお茶を飲むこともします。😊
アメリカで、冬の時、時々家の窓にカバーをかぶせます。あたたかいセーターをきます。今年、住んでいる町でもう雪が降りましたか。ここでゆきがあります。
Lovely homes and lifestyle. I rely on a closed wood stove for 50% of our heat. But, I would love to have a traditional Japanese style bath tub; short in length but tall. Can you show one in a video?
Good information and explanation, thank you so much. My favourite is the hot water bottle!
❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you. 🇬🇧
❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you for watching! Cheers😘
Thanks for this interesting video. I learned a lot
Thank you for your video
Duvets of down or wool are fabulous. Thermal curtains for windows and curtains to cover doors. Wool sox and sweaters and lots of hot drinks. I live in Canada and it can get blessedly cold come January. It’s not always sooooo cold but on those days,bundle up and dress appropriately.
FYI: Putting out a kerosene heater to refill the fuel is dangerous. Always take it outside to put it out...or you may die.
Thanks for the video
Stay warm and happy
So clever! What about heating pads? I had an extra large one and use that throughout the day and many nights when I don't want or need a whole room heated.
I also have it too but not introduced in the video😂 Thank you for watching😊
@@JapanwithNao You have it all figured out. Very impressed!👍🏽👍🏽
I really enjoyed this video and it made me look forward to keeping cosy this winter ❄️ 😊 ね。
Keep safe people ❤
Stay warm people 🫶 Thank you for watching😊
I'd love some healthy cold. Sending a sunny 🧡 from South Africa.
Kotatsu looks so comfyyyy
Thank you for your comment! Yes Kotastu is so comfortable especially after back from outside☺️
Really? I wouldn't be able to sit on my legs for more than 1 or 2 minutes.
@@Mockingbird7504you can cross them too
Love the thick blanket you sleep with.
I am confused about the water to melt snow on the sidewalk... wouldn't you just be making a lot of slippery ice? how do the pipes not also freeze? I am originally form the area around lake Michigan, where the winters are very cold. We have to shovel the snow, and sometimes use salt to melt the ice.
If the water is moving, it usually doesn't freeze unless it's really cold.
good,nice bringing the world together by knowing each oder habits
I have two thick and heavy “ Korean” blankets (actually made in China) on my bed…I sleep on one and use the other one (when it’s really cold) to cover myself. If something happened that the electricity and furnace went off I’d sleep under both blankets.
A perfect preparation for the cold winter! Thank you for watching and sharing yours😉
All great tips. Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
Wait. I was researching these when researching futons. Sleep under these tables too? Wow.
Yeah, you can sleep within seconds there, especially after eating😂 Not recommended even though, it's so comfortable😆 Thank you for watching!
I hate cold weather as I live in a warm climate in Florida USA. Like all the smart ways of being warm during those freezing cold temperatures there in Japan. Thank you for this video. Keep warm !!!