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.
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It is a balmy 111 degrees in Los Angeles today and I've found my best ally is my hot water bottle. Before popping it in the freezer, I fill it up with water only halfway, because water expands as it freezes.
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In a couple hours, I have a large, soft, super cold pack to hold up against my body to cool down.
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! Many people, including myself, don't have built in air conditioning. Here is what my family is doing to keep cool.
The heat in Europe is fierce these days, and I had been suffering until I remembered a trick I learned in Africa, but is surely well known in the southern USA.
I am really enjoying my parasol this summer! Even with a hat and sunglasses, it's much nicer to have one's own shade at an outdoor party or event. And there are a lot of inexpensive options out there.
Looking for a way for keeping cool without an air conditioner? Put a large bowl of ice cubes in front of a fan. Turn on the fan. The ice will cool the air from the fan and quickly cool you off. Replace ice cubes as needed.
If you have to go out in this heat and you wear a cloth ball cap. Take some cold water and put it in the hat; wring the hat out so you don't drip on anything and put it on your head.
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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.
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!
