Retired person with too much time on his hands?

[Leeward Rail]

• I'd consider heating up some bricks and then placing them under peoples chairs to keep them warm
• If you really want to get sophisticated, I'd look into heat pipes or pumping heated liquid to the right places
• Heated outdoor mats for melting snow might work if placed under people's chairs

All good ideas.. the bricks or rocks idea has been used for ages when in a horse drawn sleigh. Wrapping them with a blanket or old drapes allows you to rest your feet on them with getting burnt.

The fireplace with a hat, would work well for a wood stove fan.. and cooking steaks. Easy enough to make the hat if you steal a trash bin lid from a competing gated community, at the next pickle ball event.

Instead of heat pipes or heated mats, a bunch of high back, used car seats, with their ubiquitous heating elements would be great. Comfort and heating in one.
The power needed could also be used for a beer fridge.

As has been mentioned, moving further south would be most effective.
To that, I shall again mention that there is no snow in then OP image, and is reportedly in Arizona were my fellow northerners go to in winter to get warm.
I'd you put some ND, MN, SK, or MB dwellers in the photo like those 3 from Egan... They wouldn't need heat at all.

 

[Leeward Rail]

Being retired has enabled me to do so many more fun projects!

Dishes, laundry, decorating, shopping...

 

[dlochner]

Don't you know that retirement often means more projects ?

The last thing you want to do is just sit around and wait to die. Retirement is when you get to do the jobs that are fun.

 

[Project_Mayhem]

used car seats, with their ubiquitous heating elements would be great. Comfort and heating in one.

Excellent idea! Perhaps a heating blanket or pad might be more practical version of this

All good ideas.. the bricks or rocks idea has been used for ages when in a horse drawn sleigh. Wrapping them with a blanket or old drapes allows you to rest your feet on them with getting burnt.

Very interesting! Did they typically remove their shoes?

The last thing you want to do is just sit around and wait to die. Retirement is when you get to do the jobs that are fun.

I'm not sure if this means I am retired or if it's motivation to retire early!

 

[dlochner]

I'm not sure if this means I am retired or if it's motivation to retire early!

After I retired I was asked to come back part time and pretty much set my own hours and I decided what I would and would not do. Those 4 years were the most enjoyable I had at work and my work was the most appreciated. The extra money didn't hurt either.

 

[JamesG161]

Like the pioneers did.

Merry Chistmas

Jim....

 

[Leeward Rail]

The last thing you want to do is just sit around and wait to die. Retirement is when you get to do the jobs that are fun.

Agreed on the first point... But so far... Most of mine aren't fun. Too many leftovers. I'll let you know when I sell everything but my carryon., or only have new projects.

 

[Leeward Rail]

Very interesting! Did they typically remove their shoes?

Lord no. Too cold for that, and your boots would get cold.
You also don't want your feet to sweat in your boots

In the early 1900's you could buy a fancy heater box, for your car/buggy/sleigh, in which you put a big chunk of coal. Hotter and slower burning than wood. That's the fancy method.

My mother in law, who took a wagon/sleigh to school every day in the country as a child, didn't have the money for fancy stuff. In that case they would heat soapstone, bricks, even rocks, in a fire, and use them to stay warm in the sleigh. Too hot to touch. but old cloth or burlap that you didn't care about, could help. Nice slow heat loss. Like an old hot water bottle in bed.

When my wife was a kid they roughed it by sitting on hay bales wrapped in old blankets or drapes, without a heat source in a "stone boat", but they went for short periods for fun, and had really good sorel/felt pack boots.

 

[Tally Ho]

Common to pee in a Nalgene bottle and stick it in the bottom of your sleeping bag o really cold nights camping. I still have a Nalgene bottle marked “PEE” so no one drinks out of it

Same principle…just a different medium.

Greg

 

[Rick Webb]

I think it's more of a reflection deal.

The lid of a 55 gallon drum or a trash can lid might be the ticket. Perhaps a water heater pan.

I wish I had all the free time I never used before I retired.

 

[Michael Davis]

I wish I had all the free time I never used before I retired.

That should be on a list of the all time greatest quotes!