Wearing blanket
sleepers in the winter months may be normal to see from some adults. But
when the weather gets hot, some adults may not feel like blanket
sleepers are the way to go. Most will remove their sleeper and use
something else. But instead of pulling it off entirely from your body,
there are some other options you can try to keep from taking it off and
still in turn can keep you cooler. This article can tell you those
steps.
Steps
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1
Modify your wardrobe on your blanket sleeper for summertime temperatures. With the exception being your normal underwear, consider wearing only your sleeper during these months and nothing else.
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2
Unzip your blanket sleeper anytime you are wearing it.
The cooler air can help keep your body slightly closer to normal
air-temperature nearby. As long as the air has a large amount of surface
area to cover, this can help immensely.
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3
Consider using your air conditioner in the room you will be wearing your blanket sleeper in.
Let the cooling system focus on that room first, before the cooling
must occur in any other part of the house. Use other cooling methods for
kids rooms, unless the cooling is a whole-house air conditioner.
- Make sure the thermostat on the air conditioner is down to a
temperature that is as low as the thermostat can possibly go, to ensure
the cold air will be chilly enough to keep you at normal
room-temperatures.
- Consider closing off any doors that you may not be using at the
current time. Even if you are in the room with the air conditioner, make
sure all other doors that enclose the room can be closed most of the
way or all the way.
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4
Consider wearing lightweight cotton, ankle-high socks as opposed to any other style/any other full-length sock.
These smaller sized socks can help wick away moisture from your feet.
If you wear a sock that's any higher, the sock would hold in more heat,
and thereby help your feet sweat which can travel to your brain and
cause the signals of "feet getting too hot" to become major signs. And
if the blanket sleeper has Jiffy Grip-styled skidproof-bottoms, the
socks can hold back the remainder of the moisture that will for sure
accumulate at the bottom of the feet when you walk or do some activity
that requires exertion on the feet.
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Don't wear your blanket sleeper's hood, if the garment contains one. Most of your body's heat might be lost through the head (or so we people have been lead by scientists to believe)[1], so why would you want to add more latent heat in the process, when you in turn want to reverse that and loose some heat?
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Consider wearing a cotton t-shirt under your sleeper, to soak up some of the sweat from your body.
Again, cotton can help wick away moisture, and even if you're not used
to wearing no shirts to bed, cotton can help become a intermediate
mediator over not wearing an undershirt at all while still keeping you
cool.
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7
Sleep on top of the sheets
and blankets of your bed when you wear a blanket sleeper during the
night when your body is "stable" from cooling and warming trends.
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Tips
- Following the steps in this article, can be followed during any part
of the day. It doesn't just have to be nighttime, when you wear them.
- Don't tell or show your kids that you are unzipping them. They'll leave it up to themselves when you least want them to, to unzip their own.
This may even mean that they may try it months down the line (in
Winter), when keeping it zipped up is the best and only process to
observe.
- Make sure the sleeper is of a bigger size, when you choose to buy ones for yourself or others.
- Plan on the wearer having to take a few extra showers, as wearing a
blanket sleeper can cause more heat to build up, and blanket sleepers
tend to hold more heat onto the blanket sleeper/garment itself,
entrapping the wearer of extra warmth they shouldn't have to contend
with.
- Place your blanket sleeper near a cooling source at least one hour
prior to having to wear it at night. Not only will it keep it cool for
wearable temperatures immediately, but it will also wick a little more
moisture away from the garment just before re-wearing it.
- Consider purchasing (if available in your size) a blanket sleeper
that zips down all the way to your ankles, or ones that don't involve
using a zipper at all (but that could be using snaps, buttons or Velcro
or some other closing method), as these closings could contain cooler
openings, allowing for some heat to escape without having to fully unzip
the garment, or, in the case of blanket sleepers that zip to the ankle,
to help even more heat escape on top of the heat that escapes through
the area between the top half of the body.
- If you ever do get chilly, choose to use as your "blanket" a
light-weight unfitted bed sheet with nothing else. It'll keep you a bit
warmer while still allowing you to keep a bit cooler than what your
sleeper will give you.
