Tips for staying cool

Alex_Alumni

What are your best tips for staying cool on hot summer evenings?  

66Mustang

Move as little as possible! Stay still and just move when you really have to. Plan ahead when you are going to move.

Also, don’t keep thinking/complaining that it’s too hot - in my experience that makes you even more hot and bothered. Just accept that the heat is here to stay and live with it. 

Alex_Alumni

An excellent answer @66Mustang it made me chuckle  the struggle with heat is real- but acceptance is key to relief! 

Sandy_123

I personally open windows, ware light cool clothing,
Drink plenty,  sit out side,  don't use the quilt 

Alex_Alumni

Well @Biblioklept you've exposed the one piece of information I managed to retain from Biology lessons in school:

Drinking hot drinks in hot weather does a better job of cooling the body down internally, instead of a cold drink, which makes our insides think we need to be warmer!

And @Sandy_123 light cool clothing is definitely more comfortable, you feel like you can float around then

leeCal

I have found that placing my feet in a bowl filled with cold water lowers my temperature a great deal, very effective. 

Secondly if its really very very hot I have a cold water bottle filled with chilled water. The foot in the bowl thing works best I find.

Alex_Alumni

Reading this poem by @Globster has definitely helped me this evening!  

Starlingbird

If it's very hot outside then draw the curtains/closed blinds to stop the sun shining through and heating the house. Freeze a big bowl of water and put it in front of a fan (so that the air blows over it).
I really don't cope well in the heat, but I remind myself that it won't last forever!

SueHeath

I find a wet, clean T/Towel around the back of my neck helps.