GriddleCakes

About it being too cold to eat? People have been making and eating breakfast in unheated and underheated housing for millennia. OP seriously needs to HTFU, put on a coat and hat, and cook some damn oatmeal.

tenzing211

This sounds like a RENTER or TENANT issue, not a bicycling issue.

daredevil

lol...tell us how you really feel.

locolobo13 

Don't know about MD but here in AZ it's not required. I think they are required to provide water, but I paid the gas bill to heat it. Some apts come with "free" utilities but you know they just factor the costs in.

tjspiel

I get the feeling that he was venting more than he was looking for solutions but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway.

My brother is about a decade older than myself. He bought me a "Hot Pot" while I was living in a college dorm. Talk about a useful gift. It's perfect for heating up some oatmeal, soup, hot chocolate, ramen noodles, tea. etc. I'm sure you could put it on a timer and keep it in your bedroom so you'll wake up to something warm to eat first thing in the morning.

For me the "internal fire" is the best for keeping warm on those cold days. Ride hard. Know that you're going to be a little cold when you first get on that bike, but you'll be plenty warm by the time you get to your destination.

Psychologically, the toughest mornings are when it's dark, I'm laying in bed and I can hear the wind howling out of the NW. Add some cold rain to that and, yeah, getting out of bed and putting my riding clothes on isn't easy. I've done it long enough to know that once I'm one the bike it's not nearly so bad as I think it's going to be.

Sixty Fiver

If I did not have birds my house would be cooler than it is... I like temps in the low to mid 60's while they need things just a little warmer, and my wife keeps her house at this temperature.

We both run a little hot and it is not a big deal to wear slippers, a sweater, or a nice wool robe if one is feeling a little chilled and we both have heated mattress pads as neither of us likes sleeping in a warm bedroom.

I love my rice cooker as it also does a great job of cooking oatmeal... set it up before bed and turn it on in the morning and by the time you have showered and shaved the oatmeal is ready.

ThermionicScott 

This is about the time of year that I start wearing some clothes to bed. Helps keep me warm, and I'm ready to go that much sooner.

Bike Gremlin

I hear you!
It is a lot easier to go into cold rainy dawn after a hot cup of coffee with milk. That's what gets me going!
And the thought of a booring bus drive as an alternative - YACK! :/

"I'll get a guitar and a lover who pays me,
if I can't be a star I won't get out of bed!"

BridgeNotTunnel

Doesn't driving defeat some of your perceived savings by not heating your apartment?

How much of that 250$ a month goes to gas and maintenance of your car?

You need a copy of, Walden....

Sixty Fiver

My wife and I have heated mattress pads and having one of these means you can turn down the thermostat at night, stay toasty, and still come out ahead on your utility bills.

It also helps with my back issues to have a bed that doubles as a giant heating pad although even with this I keep the temperature quite low... it's just enough to take the chill off the sheets.

somedood

It pretty much comes down to HTFU when it's -2C and it's causing problems. Count your blessings that you were born during this century!

Sixty Fiver

-2C is a balmy winter day here... just imagine if one lived where it actually got really cold but can understand that compared to our ancestors we have it pretty good as we usually turn on the heat and don't have to shovel coal or chop wood.

My great aunt and uncle lived in a log cabin they built when they got married in 1932 and lived there until they were in the eighties and never had central heating... the wood stove was always burning in the winter and it was one of the coziest homes one could ever hope to be in.

GriddleCakes

The indigenous Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego are thought to have not adopted the practice of wearing clothing until introduction to European culture. From Europeans they got clothes, and smallpox. Before they were extinguished by disease, they lived in rudely erected grass huts and open canoes, and had likely done so for thousands of years.

Naked. In a subpolar oceanic climate. Paddling around in an open canoe. In the ****ing Straight of Magellan.

cellery

Homeboy, you describe Baltimore as if it were Camp IV of Everest. Maybe you should move to my neck of the woods or something? We get maybe two days of freezing a year here.

Seattle Forrest

"Antarctica was cold, but at least I wasn't stuck in a brutal MD winter."
--Ernest Shackleton

Puget Pounder

Another vote for a snuggie.

gecho

I spent some time working in Bangladesh during the "winter". It reminded me of September on the prairies, except many of the locals were wearing parkas at +10C in the mornings. I guess a lot of it is acclimatization.

Living on the prairies I also tend to forget that people on coasts have to deal with dampness during the winter instead of skin cracking dryness.

Fargo Wolf

Yeah. That's how it's SUPPOSED to work. Unless of course the landlord is one of those s**ts that cares ONLY about pocketing the money and could care less about the tenants.

Start off by talking to the landlord. If that doesn't work, go to a Citizen's advocacy group that specializes in stuff like this. If that doesn't work, see if you can get the City to do an inspection. There's no reason you should have to live like that. Lastly... Be persistant.

snowman40

No, don't get a Snuggie....get a Forever Lazy - https://www.orderforeverlazy.com/?ta...a_bid=534434b0

/sarc

WARNING! Video plays once the page loads.

What do you heat with that it is $60 a month? My heater is natural gas, and it will spike to $30 in the months ahead. We like it toasty, so thermostat set at 85 and turn it off when the chill is out of the air then turn it off.

devianb

As far as breakfast goes, granola bar and banana. Quickest and cheapest breakfast I could ever have.

roashru

i have lived near lake dillon, co and used to work at the dundalk marine terminal when its windy in the winter. md weather is not cold. tape up the windows on the smallest room with plastic put the electric heater on there it will be warm.

rwp

So the Riders gear up for a losing season in Bangladesh as well?
Go BLUE!

wolfchild

Seriously !! You need to eat some fat. Forget about the "roadie diet".. it just won't work in winter time. You need to eat some animal fat. Bacon grease is your friend. Eggs fried with bacon grease and some cheese and sausage. Yummy !! Just look at all the primitive tribes that lived in cold climates. Animal fat was the most important thing in their diet. Lettuce and beans is not enough. You need to eat animal fat so that your body can produce heat.

SlimRider

Come to California so you can forget about all of that nonsense!

- Slim

groovestew

In Newfoundland, Canada, there's an historical site that was the original North American settlement of Lord Baltimore. He spent one winter there, said, "screw this noise" and settled in what's now Maryland instead. True story.