Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)
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HN comment orderI recently bought a tall Kotatsu table from eBay. A kotatsu table has a thick blanket draped over the table frame, while the tabletop sits on top of that. There's a heater on the underside of the frame that heats the enclosed space created by the heavy blanket. You sit with your legs under the blanket and stay nice and warm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu?wprov=sfla1 We use it in place of a coffee table and also use it as a dining table. My…
From the comments: > Sorry, I am not buying it. Not because you haven't done good work on the article: you have. Also not because N.American homes are overheated, and the residents under-dressed: they are. I do not buy it because the Japanese live the way you suggest in the winter, and it is miserable I have a mother in Scotland and I have a mother-in-law in Canada. Worst it ever gets near my mother seems to be -5C, but…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-14 | Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)First breakout | oftenwrong | 261 | 305 |
| 2023-01-30 | Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | sebg | 263 | 304 |
| 2023-01-31 | Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011) | simonebrunozzi | 2 | 0 |