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Any tips for coping in a heatwave? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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This European heatwave has been going on for weeks and shows no signs of abating. It's really wearing me down. Any tips for staying cool when you don't have air conditioning? I've tried the whole shutting the windows and blinds thing they recommend but that just makes it worse. I already feel uncomfortably hot at the best of times as a side effect of my medication. So an actual heatwave on top is literal torture. It's so bad in the UK that supermarket refrigerators have stopped working due to the heat, and the news says its going to be the longest heatwave in 50 years.

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[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's just a small electrical fault apparently, the engineer quoted £160, and long-term it will need doing anyway. I just feel kind of numb about everything because life just feels like a neverending volley of challenges that are technically small yet impossible for me to overcome without help. CS Lewis wrote in his book The Screwtape Letters that the way to break a human's spirit is to give them endless small challenges and frustrations and he's absolutely right.

I don't actually have any cash at all to get anything so i don't think I can get an air fryer but thanks for the suggestion.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't actually have any cash at all to get anything so i don't think I can get an air fryer but thanks for the suggestion.

Yeah that's what i kinda expected since you only just got the washer fixed, but still, something to keep in mind in case you manage to get some more donations together :/

I wish I could help but i basically have nothing right now and live on the endless grace of my partner who is starting a job that pays 70% of her former wage

[–] DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Everyone's hard up and it seems like it's only going to get worse.