Losing warmth. So cold. Send rescue.

What method- intuitive or eccentric as it may be- do you use to beat out the cold?

From switching to wearing warmer undergarments to changing up your diet to occult rituals, I'm interested any changes or traditions you may have, however small or unusual. I mean, my self-survival may depend on your answers, after all. :shivers:

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When winter comes, I..,

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Drink a lot of alcohol. Fake warmth is the best warmth. [Hot toddy and mulled wine vote goes here.]
Drink a lot of (non-alcoholic) hot tea, milk, or coffee. Warming myself from the inside-out is the best approach!
Just crank that central air up to max, and create an artifical indoor jungle. Denial of what's outside my door is the best policy! ..it's a policy that I apply to a lot of things, actually.
Put space heaters everywhere. I shall put up an impenetrable fortress of warmth! ..right up until the circuit breakers blow.
Wear enough layers of clothing that damage taken from attacks and by falling gains a significant reduction. Also, one's personal bubble levels up to have physical presence! ..struggling one's way out of the clothes can be a bit of a challenge, though.
Share body heat. Nothing warms you up as thoroughly as the even, balanced, steady warmth of another living being. ..also, if they have fur, that's a super snuggly bonus.
I regularly escape into hot water (showers, baths, saunas, etc) as a form of escape. Sure, leaving afterwards is.. daunting, to say the least, but it's not like I can stay in there forever, haha! ...wait, can I?
Temporarily lose sanity and wrap oneself up in a delusion of being on a tropical island. You cannot deny the power of my crazy coconut, ahahaha! ..oh gods, I need a real vacation.
Mmrph. Why, I am rich enough to afford to travel according to the seasons- hey, hey! Stop throwing rotten fruits at me, you damn jealous peasants!
The cold is not a threat to me, for I have the ultimate protection! ..I actually DO live on a tropical island and/or near the equator. Mmm, toasty.
Live in the southern hemisphere. Getting to freely laugh at the northern hemisphere for half a year is great! I mean, you'll forget us again by the time your chance at revenge comes around, anyway.
I pray to R'hllor to keep me warm and bring in the spring sooner, and offer him tribute by starting lots and lots of [bon]fires all winter long. ..the fire itself helps a lot, of course.
I use various tools, such as hot water bottles, to keep me warm.
I cut open tauntauns and hide inside their cooling corpses. Sure, I smell all winter long, but I've long since lost any rational approach to dealing with winter, so it's totally.. chill.
The cold never bothered me, anyway.
(We must pool our wisdom to combat the forces of entropy! I have a suggestion that I've made in the comments. =)

Canadian here. -30C happens half a dozen times a year at least. I wait for the bus at 6am in that temperature.

Wear a good coat, hat, boots, and gloves. If your core is cold (you're shivering) then your coat isn't good enough. You need a proper down-filled parka. It's life-changing, you suddenly won't be afraid of cold weather anymore. It's awesome.

When you're properly bundled up you won't be shivering and your head, feet, and hands will be warm. After that you just have to live with the air hurting your face. You just gotta tough that out. Maybe pass the time by asking yourself what kind of maniac lives in a place where the air hurts your face?

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Cold doesn't bother me really. I'll be outside shoveling in a light unzipped hoodie and tshirt in -20C weather. Snow hitting my face because I'm shoveling into the wind; diving head first into the freshly fallen snow. Building snowmen on random public stairs and then seeing them smooshed later on. Good times.

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I don't know why it's not socially acceptable for men to wear tights. Tights are an absolute lifesaver when the temperatures go below zero.

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it's fine as long as you put them under your trousers

or wear a codpiece

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I hate cold too. If you can't migrate to a warmer place during nasty winter, try becoming a human sock.

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I much prefer the cold over the hot. It might be because I'm from Sweden, but I live in a southern coastal city so we usually have temperatures of -5 to 5 degrees all winter.

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I like cold better then heat.

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I live I Houston...it gets cold a few nights a year, and hits freezing for a night or two about every other year. It's chilly today (~55F), but a couple of days ago, it was pretty and 76 degrees. :)

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It's simple: Don't ever go outside 'till it's summer again :D
Edit: Except when you need a smoke :(

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Chopping wood, chopping wood, and... chopping wood. The rate at which woodstoves consume firefood is pretty impressive, but at least it's much cheaper than oil and it keeps the house heated all winter long.

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Do exercise/physical activity to stay warm, wear extra clothes, and stay inside.

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I hate the cold, I'm "miserable" and "freezing" sitting here in an office, meanwhile my coworkers are complaining about how "hot" it is in here. I'm sitting on my hands to try to regain my ability to feel. Legs from the thighs down are a lost cause; I'm just numb down there and endlessly cold. My mom has Raynaud's disease and I wonder if I might, too.

I have a ridiculously heavy coat with lots of layers, wear 2 or 3 layers of shirts/sweatshirt underneath that, and I got some nice wool-lined boots from Canada that do a damn good job of keeping my feet warm(er) and dry but I'm still an unhappy whiner in general when the temperature drops below 60F. :P

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My old coworker who did some years in the Soviet army said his advice for dealing with the cold was simply "never stop moving".

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