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Fellow lemmings, you doing alright for the heatwaves? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by sascuach@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As a poor person, maybe most useful advice for other poor people is water bottles. Tap water is colder than the air so I try to keep a plastic water bottle in my hand or pressed against my skin and it helps a lot.

If anyone is in a bind, post your situation and we/I will try to come up with a simple enough solution. My irl qualifications might be useful for the first time online lol: I was homeless for 2 months and have been poor af for my whole life, so i've had to ghetto innovate a lot of stuff.

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[–] enebe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One similar to this:

The only "important" part is that it has a fabric exterior, so that the ice doesn't "burn" you. But any is good.

Also, don't over fill it, ice expands and can make it explode in the freezer

[–] sascuach@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Shouldnt it ideally have some kind of thing that lets me keep it against my body when walking? Bc in winter

[–] enebe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That would be pretty awesome, I don't know if that exists though. When I'm outside I just use layers, tbh, this is more of a "at home" or "at work" thing.

But if you don't care too much about what other people think, you can directly throw it under your shirt, they are not that heavy

[–] sascuach@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

other people think, you can directly throw it under your shirt,

I was doing this the other day. I kept on forgetting it was in my shirt and when I stood up it fell out. Tips for this?

Off the top of my head, I can imagine a pantyhose holder scarf thing

[–] enebe@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No idea honestly, I guess it depends on your specific model... The best I can think is tying two together (they usually have a hanging hole on one end) and throwing it over your shoulder

[–] sascuach@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That's what I was thinking too