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This week’s roundup - the “How to keep warm when the thermostat is set at 55F” edition.

Published on February 2nd, 2008

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This week it finally stopped raining for long enough to play the second hockey game of the year. This was a pickup game which unlike a league game is not optimal for a center-forward since pickup games are more disorganized with less of a team factor. Anyway, what has this to do with lowering the thermostat? Unlike aerobic exercise, strength and power based exercise (strength training, hockey, football, girevik, .. ) raises the metabolism for many many hours after the exercise. Since the human body is not 100% efficient this translates into heat. It’s like activating an internal furnace.

Another discovery was the instead of putting long johns under the jeans, it is much better to put a pair of loose jogging pants on top of the jeans. This traps much more air and I keep checking whether the temperature has gone op to 63 even though it’s only 56 in here right now.

This week around the blogosphere:

Articles I bookmarked:

Save money by making homemade cleaning products

Carnivals I participated in:

A request for help:
I am trying to develop a better blogroll, so if you know of any blogs that relate well to mine please let me know. It should cover one of the areas I cover (environmentalism, capitalism, being debt free and living on passive income, minimalism, and alternative (not rat race) lifestyles) and/or generally agree with my sentiments. I’m still trying to figure out exactly how to organize it, but I would like it to be useful to people. Looking forward to your suggestions. You can either leave a comment or send it to my email which you can find in the “About Me” section at the top of this page.

8 users responded in " This week’s roundup - the “How to keep warm when the thermostat is set at 55F” edition. "

deepali said, in February 2nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Well, how about leggings under the jeans with jogging pants on top. I get cold easily.

Lulugal11 said, in February 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm

I would like you to have a look at my blog and consider adding me to your blogroll. My blog deals with my personal finances and getting out of debt.

If you go to the PFBlogs.org you can find lots of blogs about people’s finances that relate to your blog. Browse through it and see who you like.

I would also like to recommend the following:
Blogging my Way out of Debt
No Credit Needed blog
We’re In Debt
Give me back My Five Bucks

These are all on my blogroll and I read them every day.

Brooke | Dollarfrugal.com said, in February 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm

I agree with you about the exercise - totally. When I go to the Middle East, after a run in 120 degrees, usually it takes at least an hour to cool down enough to take a shower - otherwise I’m still sweating through and after the shower. But once I acclimate to exercising there, I cool down a lot faster.

I read way too many blogs - I’m sure you’ve seen from my stupidly long blogroll, but I don’t want to miss good posts, and I’ve subscribed to each blog because I’ve seen something special in a posting. Most of the blogs are PF-related.

I’ve also been looking a lot at verdant.net lately. It’s interesting, a little sensationalist, but still has some good points. I think you’d like it.

I check the frugal hacker blogroll a lot for ideas. I see you have the badge at right. I find that’s a lot better for my frugal likes than PFBlogs.org, simply because I abhor reading about investing.

fathersez said, in February 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm

Jacob,
I was just going to suggest that you ask Brooke for a copy of her insanely long blogroll and work your way from there.

Looks like she has already commented.

Regards

Lynnae @ Being Frugal.net said, in February 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 pm

I’m glad you liked my post on homemade cleaning products! Thanks for the mention!

You could always add me to your blogroll!

I like all of the M-Network blogs.
http://www.moolanomy.com/m-network

Beany said, in February 4th, 2008 at 9:41 am

Not a blog, but Ran Prieur [http://ranprieur.com/] had some similar ideas to you. From his about me page:

“I make all major life decisions to minimize stress. I’m preemptively retired and independently poor, dodging rent through housesitting and couch-surfing. In the winter I generally stay with Patricia in Pittsburgh, and in spring and summer I usually have long housesits in Spokane, and go up to work on land I bought in 2004. I don’t plan to live there full time unless I have to, but I’m very slowly building a cabin out of indigenous materials and growing fruit trees.”

Canadian Dream said, in February 8th, 2008 at 11:39 am

I see a lot of myself in your blog. If you like see my blog and perhaps add me to your blogroll.

Thanks,
Tim

Becky@FamilyandFinances said, in February 9th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

Wow! 55 degrees? You’re a pretty tough guy

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