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by Roaring on November 1st, 2008
Right now. Have been for years. Wood stove with plug in oil-filled heaters for backup.
by BlowMyMind on November 1st, 2008
what's that?
by Cipher on November 1st, 2008
yes, of course
by Scott D - ex-QnA on November 2nd, 2008
I have rented them. The are better known as "cabins". ;-)
by Cowboy-Matter of Fact on November 1st, 2008
Yes, we had Dearborn heaters during my childhood and I have lived in several homes since without central heating.
by Brian I on November 1st, 2008
From birth until I was about 23 and again for the last 9 years. The first because only posh people had central heating when I was a kid and the second because the climate I live in means we don't need it.
by cezzer on November 1st, 2008
yup, all my life. im now at uni, in accommodation with central heating and getting ill all the time!
by Anonymous on November 1st, 2008
I live in an apartment with no central heating.
by Lady Lavender on November 1st, 2008
My mother in laws house has no central heating.
by dea_ex_machina on November 2nd, 2008
Heavens yes!!! In the house where I grew up, we had no central heating - there was frost INSIDE the windows inthe morning.. and we all wore a lot more layers of clothing in the winter.
by bagicide stayed 10 months too long on November 2nd, 2008
Yes, and no plumbing either. When we first moved to the farm, there was no house but an old shack. It was a log cabin that had been added onto three times. It was completely disjointed. So many holes had been cut in the walls to provide access to other rooms that the roof was almost unsupported. You had to go outside and around the back to get to some of the bedrooms. It had chimneys for four woodstoves. It had a little house out back and you needed a chamber pot under the bed at night. You had to go out to the well to get water. You could see daylight through the walls in places. There was nothing between you and the great outdoors but a tin roof with cardboard tacked to the underside of the rafters and wallpapered. We spent the winter of '78 in that house, the worst winter of the last century. I learned to split firewood that winter and got VERY good at it. There were days when we ran all the stoves cherry red all day to get it up to forty degrees in the house.
by Ann on a Moose on November 1st, 2008
Yes, when I was little. I remember the ice patterns on the inside of the bedroom window.
by LoggyBren on November 1st, 2008
When I lived in Colorado, there was an electric heating unit in each room. It did not have central heating. I put in a fireplace insert to burn wood.
by Anonymous on November 1st, 2008
Yes! I do currently! It doesn't exist in Africa, in general. And it's cold. No carpets either, just rugs. We have a plug-in heater. Expensive isn't the word!
by eric on November 1st, 2008
Yeah. It's called a gravity furnace.
by Rollie on November 1st, 2008
Sure. As a kid in an old farm house. My parents installed it when I was about 8 or 9. It burned coal and wood.
by Done. never again. on November 1st, 2008
No, but a rundown duplex that I lived in barely had heat. In the windertime, we went to sleep covered in those -40 degree tolerant sleeping bags.
by Grandma Roses - my avatar is my real dog on November 1st, 2008
Yes, it was an old converted one room schoolhouse heated by wood. There were grates in the floor for the hot air to rise to the second floor. It was mighty cold in the kitchen in the winter - the temp, with woodstove blasting, was in the low 50s.
by temporary name on November 1st, 2008
Yes. I lived in a well-insulated house in New Hampshire with nothing but a wood burning stove on the first floor. It was quite cozy even on the coldest days of the winter.
by rere on November 1st, 2008
Its worse to live in a house with no AC on scorching summer days.
by nicdebrug on November 1st, 2008
All my life. And still today, I love the fireplace and burning wood when I have an excuse for doing it. It is only really cold at night in wintertime. Otherwise its OK here.
by Galeanda on November 1st, 2008
Most of my life, including now and the last 30 years. For the last 35 years I've lived with a wood stove as my main source of heat.
by Chezter is going to save the Redheads on November 1st, 2008
My fireplace is near the center of my house, but I never use it
by vera city on November 1st, 2008
yes, and it was very cold in the winter
by Anonymous on November 1st, 2008
Auctually yes and usaully somtimes it can be haunted!
by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on November 1st, 2008
Never. Lucky me :)
by DukeG on November 2nd, 2008
I rented one in the middle of summer. No heat/ac running water. I was commuting far from home and there were 7 of us paying 1200 a week for the privilige.
by albert nonymous "A" nonymous for short. on November 2nd, 2008
yes lots of them,
My current house has only wood heat.
One wood burner heats both floors, It gets a bit chilly at times but not unbearable.
by Ironhead on November 2nd, 2008
I have never lived in a house with central heating and I have lived in several houses.
by Merfish on November 2nd, 2008
Yes. We lived at the other grandmothers house for awhile. All she had for heat was the kersosene stove (huge monster of a thing) in the kitchen.
The last house we sold had no central heat either. We had those electric oil filled things in the different rooms.
by - M.C.S. - Dave on November 2nd, 2008
Yes....I am in one right now matter of fact.
by Bohemian is back on November 2nd, 2008
Yes, once when I was a student. Very dangerous thing to do for your health. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
by Sodapop on November 1st, 2008
yes there was an old time gas heater in the middle of the living room with an exhaust pipe going into the wall all the way up to the top of the house and out the roof. if you werent in the room you were cold lol so for the first year i was here i slept in the living room every day, that sucked but its been 5 years and i have my own place with central heating and i love it.
by Super on November 1st, 2008
No, everywhere I have lived had heating in every room.
by RC loves ice cream on October 21st, 2009
Never been in a house with it. Here we use either air conditioners (which can heat as well as cool), or gas or electric heaters. It's not all that cold.
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