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Fun Ways To Stay Cool When Air Conditioning Isn’t An Option

Fun Ways To Stay Cool When Air Conditioning Isn’t An Option

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Is it hot where you are? The northern hemisphere is experiencing yet another sweltering summer. However, for reasons economical, financial, environmental, or sedentary (it requires too much energy to get off the couch), air conditioning is not an option. Here’s 10 fun ways to stay cool when air conditioning isn’t an option.

Source: wikihow.com, guinnessworldrecords.com

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Make your own beach

You live in rural Kansas, surrounded by cornfields with crops crackling brown from the heat. Your car is overheated and won’t start, barring you from driving to Long Beach, California. Easy–make your own! Collect your shower water in an old basin, gather some soil from said cornfield (it’s dryness must be of sand consistency at this point), and make sure to open up a parasol…and then put it into your blue Mai Tai. All materials for this beach feature can be bought at your local Costco.

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Make your own fan

This is great if you have children who can be turned into work horses. Fill a giant bowl with ice, lie down melodramatically overheated, and have your least favorite child fan the ice bowl with a copy of “War and Peace” in your general direction. The cold air will calm your nerves, and your unconditional love for all of your children will be restored.

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Go out for ice cream

Do not go to Frosty Kingdom in your car; that will damage the ozone layer. Instead, walk the seven or so miles down the steaming highway to get there. By the time you reach Freddy’s Frozen Paradise, you’ll be in the mood for the monster shake. Treat yourself.

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Add more large windows to the house

A simple remodeling job in the dead of August will suffice, and you don’t need a Caterpillar for that task. With five strong women and some sledgehammers, you can knock down an entire side of the house. Take your time between August and December to find the new full-length windows as you enjoy this large, gaping access to cool.

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Memorize the “Frozen” soundtrack

I’ve never seen the film, but I assume it’s about lowering one’s body temperature in an animated fashion? Blasting the song “Do you Want to Build a Snowman?” on repeat while the inside thermometer reads 106 degrees is guaranteed to make you eventually start muttering to yourself while staring off: “Yes. Yes. I want to build a snowman.”

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Watch “The Shining” 

There’s no form of entertainment to make you appreciate your sweltering domestic situation more than Stanley Kubrick’s creepy 1980 film, “The Shining.” A family gets trapped in a hotel during a Colorado blizzard while being chased around by ghosts and an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson.

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Read the book “Alive”

Piers Paul Read’s 1974 biography, “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors,” recounted the harrowing tale of the Uruguayan rugby team and their plane which crash landed into snow and sub-zero temperatures in the Andes Mountains. Read and appreciate the summer.

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Water, water, water

Eight ounces of water every hour in high-temperatures is good for staying hydrated. Another way to keep cool is to dip your wrists for 10 seconds each in chilled water. It’s said to lower your body temperature for more than an hour.

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The Carolina Reaper

In the hot countries of Southeast Asia or the Middle East, the food is normally spicier than in cooler climes. Why? Besides the endorphin rush that extra-spicy food creates — a reprieve from the heat? — spicy food will make you perspire, forcing your body to cool itself down. The Carolina Reaper of South Carolina was listed as the hottest chili in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Just open that freezer

You’ve hot. That’s OK, you’re only human, and a panting one at that. Just open the freezer and let the frigid mist of cool envelop you.