Run through the sprinkler with your kids, get out the slip and slide, the super soaker or the kiddie pool (add ice cubes).
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Have a water balloon fight.
Plug in the fans, add streamers. Mind your fingers! Put a bowl of ice in front of the fan for added cooling power.
Place a wet sheet in the open window. As the breeze passes through, you'll cool the room a bit. Frugal wind chill!
Go swimming. You don't sweat underwater!
Take a cold shower.
Freeze your shower gel before using.
Have your spouse or your kids run an ice cube up and down your back.
Stand in front of the freezer case at your local grocery.
Re-visit your basement (clean it out while you are down there cooling off).
Go ice skating.
Visit an air conditioned mall, library, or museum.
Head to a local cave where it is always about 54 degrees F.
Buy lemonade from the kids in your neighborhood.
Make your own sun tea, popsicles, or fruit smoothies.
Drink your coffee iced.
Think cool - tell yourself you are comfortable. Mind over matter really works!
Visit your local ice-cream parlor.
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Wear linen, a straw hat, light colored clothing.
Watch "Cool" Movies: Happy Feet, Cool Hand Luke, Ice Age.
Listen to "Cool" Tunes: Ice-T, Vanilla Ice, Ice Cube.
Read a "Cool" Book: Scott of the Antarctic by David Crane, Into Think Ari by Jon Krakauer.
Put the top down ANYWAY!
Eat a salad dinner, picnic style.
Wash your car - Water hose fight!
Stay hydrated.
Sleep.
Exercise in the very early morning.
Close the damper on your fireplace to keep out hot air
Adopt a Cooling yoga position-seated forward bends, roll your tongue into a tube, and breathe in and out through it; pressing your chin to your chest as you breathe in. Check www.yogayak.com and search for cooling breath for a video.
To keep cool on a very hot day, turn on your fan and arrange a bowl of ice-cubes in front of it. Just like having an air-conditioner without the cost. Enjoy!
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September 7, 2006
Keep a few cans of tuna or chicken in the fridge, for in those times when you need a quick meal. They'll be great to either drain and toss on top of a green salad or a quickie dish of tuna or chicken salad.
For a nice pick-me-up for upcoming summer weather, put your spray on body mists or sprays in the refrigerator to keep them cold! When you spritz yourself, it's a nice treat to have tingling cold and pretty smelling mist rather then room temperature!
Water is an ideal drink to cool your body. If choosing other drinks, when perspiring, consider the caffeine and sugar content. The sugar draws fluids away from the muscles where it's needed, plus adds calories.
Are your kids looking for an activity to keep them cool on a hot summer day, but you don't want to take them to the busy pool? Simply, reuse a couple of bottles with a small hole in the lid. Ketchup bottles and some salad dressing bottles work great!
Years ago when I worked in a nursing home, the halls were air conditioned, but not the individual rooms. We would take a hand towel, soak it in cold water, ring it out and wrap around our necks, repeating as necessary.
A neck cooler is a very easy sewing project that anyone can do. Make some homemade neck coolers so your family and friends, as well as yourself, can say cool on those hot summer days.
I keep a large shoe-box-sized plastic container in the freezer filled with feed corn. It's actually wide enough for both of my bare feet to fit side-by-side.
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On hot days, or if my feet hurt, I pull it out, stick my feet into plastic bags, then dig my toes deep into the feed corn!
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June 10, 2013
Since I don't have air conditioning in either my home or car, I keep spray bottles of water around for a quick cool off. When it starts getting hot, I just give myself a quick fine spray. It isn't enough to get really wet.
I live near Portland, Oregon and we are in the midst of a heat wave. We usually have temperatures in the 80s at this time of year, but today it is forecasted to be 105!
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Many people, including myself, don't have built in air conditioning. Here is what my family is doing to keep cool.