If you don't have an A/C like me please post your handy tips for staying cool. ๐
The evening before:
Fill up the icetrays and freeze plastic bottles of water.
Cut up lots of fruit like mangoes and watermelon and leave in the fridge. You won't feel like cooking tomorrow.
Fill up a spray bottle and keep in the fridge.
Close all curtains and blinds before you go to bed.
The day:
Laze around on the sofa and don't use the stove or the oven.
Drink lots of cool water with ice.
When the house starts heating up turn the fans on and place those frozen bottles of water you prepared earlier in a shallow tray in front of the fan.
Wipe down your pets with a cool wash cloth.
Place icecubes in their water bowls.
Place a large damp towel on the floor in front of the fans for your pets to lay on.
Wet a wash cloth/bandana and place that around your neck.
Have lukewarm showers or sit in a lukewarm bath. Wet your hair and if long put it up.
Evening:
If the temp drops open all the doors and windows. Put a linen or pure cotton bed sheet in the fridge for a couple of hours. Put an icepak on your pillow and move fan into the bedroom and place frozen bottles of water on a shallow tray in front of the fan and direct it on your bed. Place cold sheet on your bed. Jump in the shower and go to bed naked and wet.
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