I do not have ac at home and this weekend gonna be in the 90's anybody have ideas to stay cool??
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WOW! You are so lucky, 90's? I'm in California and today it is at least 104! But some of the best ways to keep cool are to avoid a lot of activity, stay home, maybe watch TV in front of a fan. The more you move, even walking across the house, the hotter you will be.
Also, keep doors and windows closed and the house as dark as possible. That helps a bit. If you keep the wimdows open at night to cool the house and then as soon as the sun starts rising close them up that will keep the house tohe coolest for the longest period of time.
If you want to get out of the house, everybody else has the best ideas, library, pool, mall, etc. Good luck!
Library, mall, movie
Library, mall, movie, pool. Someone else's house with ac, buy a fan, cold showers
House or table fans, wet towels. Stay in the shade, was 109 here yesterday.
Swimming, cool showers/bath, if you have a basement go there, or use fans to pull cool air up.
Same way the pioneers did. Stay outside but in the shade, preferably in a breezy area. A screen porch used to be a popular solution. A more modern solution is a fan and open windows. 90 is nothing. It gets over 100 pretty often here in Texas.
Do physical labor early in the day. If you need to bake, do it early in the day or late at night. Dress in natural fiber (cotton, linen) rather than nylon or rayon. Wear a hat outdoors. Use fans, blowing right at you, at home. Put your hair up, or pull it back. Dampen your hair and skin. (A spray bottle of cool water, in front of the fan, feels pretty terrific.) Open your windows to take advantage of any cross ventilation. Visit public places which are cooled. Find a seat in the shade. Go swimming or run through a sprinkler. Take a cool shower with Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Castile soap (which leaves the skin feeling cool the way mint you eat leaves your mouth feeling cool).
90's isn't bad. Hell it gets hotter than that here at night. Get a fan
keep snowcones in your pockets and gelato under your hat.
Don't know where you live, but hopefully it's near the beach, a lake, the mall, or a water park!!
Stay cool
If you have a fan, get a spray bottle and put it in the freezer till its alomost frozen and then spray the mist towards the fan and keep cool that way. Do not put the trigger into the freezer just the open bottle of water. Also put heavy blankets over your windows that get the most sun and if you get really hot put tin foil over them shiny side out this helps out a lot. Good Luck and stay away from public pee pee pools.
This sounds wrong, but it really works.
At night, when it coolest, open up your doors and windows to let the cool air in.
In the morning, first thing, close all the windows and doors. You'll trap the cool air inside. Open them as little as possible so you don't let the hot air in.
Besides the other good answers that others responded with:
When you're sleeping, aim a fan at your bed with a bowl or pot of ice water right in front of it. The fan will blow some of the cool air emanating from the ice water.
It's not as good as an A/C, but it's better than nothing -- certainly better than just having the fan blow hot air around.
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If you have a fan you can set a large bowl of ice in front of it and it will blow a cool mist into the air reducing the room's temperature. Close curtains in the morning on the East side of your place and close the ones on the West side for the afternoon and evening. I dont have AC either and this is how we cope comfortably. Also drink plenty of ice water it keeps you cool and you'll also stay hydrated.
In the days before AC, hospital nurses used to set a bowl of ice cubes in front of a fan blowing directly at you.
Man! so many top contributors. anyway, if you have a back yard and has a tree with shade, that would be relaxing, sitting under the shade. You can read your book or use your laptop, if your laptop has wireless network. Never sleep, because, you know, earth rotates, sun shines in at different angle, and shade will move. By the time you got up, you'll be burned.
What part of the country do you live in?
Be sure to have plenty of drinking water available. Stay hydrated and becareful about spending too much time in the sun.
Movies are a great (and cooler) way to pass the time. Nothing like those strong AC unites at the cinneplex.
Public libraries are nice.. chill out and read a book.
If you belong to an indoor gym, that might help to. Or join a YMCA.
And, of course, find a freind with AC :)
open up everything, let the breeze flow into the place. fans may also help.
fans + breeze = great way to stay cool :)
keep all shades pulled on the sunny side of the house and only open windows if they are on the shady side try to keep from opening doors during the heat of the day
First, i would go down to my local hardware store and get an AC unit, at least for the main living space.
Until then, catch a movie, go to the mall, go to the beach, get a fan, go to a friends house, stay in the shade, get naked!
We have a phrase here in Milwaukee, "Its cooler by the lake", So come to Milwaukee, go to Summerfest and you will instantly be cooler!
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