For those of us who are unemployed and not wealthy enough to afford tauntauns, it proves helpful to find every candle in the house and start burning them in the bedroom.
But the best thing, as someone who just went through that? Leave the stove on. In my small house, it actually warmed things up very nicely. And hey, it's not like you would have used the gas for something different. I put a box fan near the doorway to get air circulating and, voila, instant (only slightly dangerous) furnace!
When I was doing my MA, I rented the top floor of a house from a woman who was using the bottom floor as an office during the week. On the weekends she would turn the heat off completely. *AND* she forbade me from having a space heater. (I had one anyway, but I kept it hidden.)
I used to use the oven as heat. I also read somewhere that boiling water on the stove would make it warmer, so I did that too. I didn't care -- she paid for the utilities, so I figured if she wasn't going to turn on the (oil) heat, I would use a different utility to keep myself warm.
Then there was the weekend that we had a massive snowstorm and the power went out, leaving me no heat whatsoever ... I ended up having to call the police when the temperature went down to the 40s in my apartment, and they sent a rescue truck for me to take me to a shelter.
The landlord's response? I was "over-reacting". I moved out soon thereafter.
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But that was meant as 'in the meantime." Probably silly considering where you are.
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But the best thing, as someone who just went through that? Leave the stove on. In my small house, it actually warmed things up very nicely. And hey, it's not like you would have used the gas for something different. I put a box fan near the doorway to get air circulating and, voila, instant (only slightly dangerous) furnace!
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I used to use the oven as heat. I also read somewhere that boiling water on the stove would make it warmer, so I did that too. I didn't care -- she paid for the utilities, so I figured if she wasn't going to turn on the (oil) heat, I would use a different utility to keep myself warm.
Then there was the weekend that we had a massive snowstorm and the power went out, leaving me no heat whatsoever ... I ended up having to call the police when the temperature went down to the 40s in my apartment, and they sent a rescue truck for me to take me to a shelter.
The landlord's response? I was "over-reacting". I moved out soon thereafter.
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