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Edit: Context behind this question is because my parents always tell me to shut the windows all the way and I kinda feel like I'm suffocating... literally... (it's Winter here)

Like I just struggle to breathe with windows closed...

So I'm just curious, how do y'all not suffocate while trying to keep house warm and spend less on heating?

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[–] jagermo@feddit.org 49 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Daily, all year roun,for a short time.

Let me introduce you to Stoßlüften.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Stoßlüften!!

(aside from rooms having ac, those don't need it)

[–] emigu@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a foreigner living in Germany, I just knew this would be the main response. Germans LOVE to air out rooms

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago

This foreigner made a video out of their experience

(I was looking for a different one I thought they made, but this is where I ended up.)

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Stale air contains high levels of CO₂, which can make you feel tired

Oh... no wonder why my circadian rhythm is fucked up... I feel so tired in the day and now its 1AM and I'm wide awake... 🫠

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

isnt also the lack of sunlight too during winter makes you depressed, less VITAMIN D more depression.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lpt: if your residence has central heating/ac and was made within the last 50 years then your house is probably getting sufficient airflow.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Central heating, no AC.

Heat is not carried by air, but by those pipes with hot water running to radiators... so I don't know if there's any airflow.

Built before 1978, might have lead paint under there... but it was painted over once before we moved in so its probably lead safe(? I hope lol, i'd be lame to lose a few iq points to something stupid like lead)

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 21 hours ago

Ah, then no forced air through ventilation ducts to move air around.

My current house doesn't have vents either, but I have fans that move air around the important bits that get occupied the most. With my dogs needing to go out, and work, the doors are open enough, and there's enough leakage to not worry about co2 levels. Except my wife sometimes trips the sensor in the hallway when she takes a long bath while burning multiple candles...

[–] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

How old is stoßlüften? I know people that are always opening windows and telling their kids to go outside to "blow the stink off" and while they have german ancestry it would be from over a hundred years ago.

[–] ObscureOtter@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Neat, that was a fun read! I'll have to try it!

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sadly my upstairs and downstairs neighbours are chain smokers. They close their windows and the balcony doors and I get all the (pot) smoke. Why does Germany have so many smokers?

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I try to open my bedroom window as little as possible because the air outside is usually poor quality and I have an active air filter monitoring my room and removing crud from it. I LOVE living in a car centric city in a country who's government has been partly captured by oil companies and dealerships at all levels.

I like to think the plants I have in my room help with the CO₂, but I don't feel they make that much of a difference.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

same here. you probably need alot of plants to make a difference, or larger ones. monstera, dracaena, rubber tree fig

[–] Feddinat0r@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dies ist der einzigste Weg.

This is the only way

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Wenn schon, dann auch the onliest way.