So I somehow already developed a habit with the stove. Usually in the mornings before work I enjoy my coffee and wake up while tending the stove. Decided before I head out the door why not slip my feet into something warm. So everyday now i place my socks on the stove to warm them up before they go in my boots. Ha its that fresh out the dryer feeling. They are clean so no the house doesnt smell like feet to bad! Anyone else have any weird tendencies or what not with the stove?
Good idea! We keep soapstone blocks on the stove to put inside boots when we come inside and this works to dry the insides really nice. Soapsto... I also will sometimes wrap these up and take them to the woods with me. Of course they are placed inside a pair of gloves too before wrapping in old towels. When my hands get cold or wet, I put the warm pair on and put the blocks in the cold pair. That is really sweet!
Those look like great stocking stuffers. I've been known to put baked sweet potatoes, wrapped in foil, in an extra pair of socks...
Yes, you a weird. I am too. I used to wear slippers with a little bow on top, I would trade a couple pairs on and off during the day to warm them on the stove. The slippers were fine, but the bows were melted off of every single pair..... Also, I was unaware the lil one tossed a blanket up over the baby gate and on to the woodstove. It was scortched, the smell caught my attention right before it ignited.
I've also used the microwave for the same purpose. Twenty seconds does it. Did it for my wife once. I didn't realize her fancy Christmas socks had foil in them. She was mad...
Works good for drying out wet socks too...can leave a certain aroma though... I can get pretty wet n muddy at work sometimes. They have a washer in the shop for us to use. When I wash my Carhartts, I like to take them over to the boiler room, hang them in there for a couple hours...warm n dry!
Back in the day they used soapstone bed warmers, interesting, I just found out they're still available.
My uncle (1928-2008) and his wife used river rocks warmed on the woodstove in their first house, (drafty ancient school house). It was so cold he actually had scars on his back from spooning with a rock between him and his wife on those cold windy nights.
Reminds me of a couple that were newly weds back in the 80's. Like just about everyone else, they started out there marriage a bit less affluent in the finance department. The obvious was to keep warm was to heat with wood during the winters. Being newly weds, I don't think there was much demand or desire to fire up the stove during the night. During the cold mornings, the husband would fire up the stove, take his shower, and then run out to dry off next to the warmth of the stove. As he was bending over to dry himself, he got a double brand on his rump from the wood stove! He told me about it at work the same morning - he was a bit tender that day!! How's that for weird?
Mum told me about someone in the family that did the same, was warming in front of the stove and backed too close and got "branded" with part of the stove name on his rump; serious burn but it healed without any long lasting results.
There's a shiny space on the top front lip of our stove where a visiting relative sat on it to warm up. STT was just under 600° at the time. Part of her polyester blend jeans still stuck on the stove. That's wierd.
When I was a young lad, the family car was a Model A Ford. We used one of these on the floor to keep our feet from freezing and also had a large heavy horsehair blanket we put over us to help try to stay warm.
