30 Appalachian Tricks That Keep My Bed Warm With No Heat

🔗 Don't wait till the powers already out. Get yours before its gone: https://www.OpalRowe.com/home Opal Rowe has slept eighty winters in the Kentucky mountains, most of them with no heat in the bedroom at all, and she has not had a cold back since she was a girl. In this video she counts down 30 Appalachian tricks that keep a bed warm with no heat, the old quilts, the handwork, and the bedways her mama taught her, every one you can still do tonight in a city apartment with the furnace turned down. Her own bed is made up in the back room the old way, and there is something under that bottom sheet that does more than every quilt on top of it. Her neighbor has asked her what it is every winter for thirty years, and she never told. Until now. In this one, Opal covers: • Flannel on the bottom, long handles and wool socks before bed, and the knit cap Mama pulled on every night (and why your nose stays out of the covers) • The hot brick at the foot of the bed, the corn bag sewn from a feed sack, and the one kind of rock you must never heat • Quilt know-how: the open-stitch afghan hid between two flat quilts, the tied comfort you can make in one day, and the heavy wool quilt pieced from wore-out britches • The quilt tent and the bed curtains for a night the power goes out, and how to make the bed for one when you sleep alone now • What has been under her bottom sheet for thirty winters, and why it means most beds today are made backwards Tell Opal down in the comments where you are watching from, who kept your family warm on the coldest nights, and what they put in the bed with you. And if your people had their own name for it, a comfort or a kiver, tell her that too. Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 Why Your Bed Is Made Backwards 2:01 Long Handles and Wool Socks Before Bed 2:52 Flannel Sheets, and the Flannel Goes on the Bottom 3:41 The Knit Cap at Bedtime 4:30 Warm Your Night Clothes First 5:18 Walk the Floor Before You Lie Down 6:07 Get Your Three O'Clock Trip Ready 6:54 A Quilt Folded Across Your Shoulders 7:38 A Heavy Quilt Hung Over the Bedroom Door 8:23 Tuck Your Covers Tight as an Envelope 9:03 Get Your Bed Up Off the Cold Floor 9:46 The Hot Brick at the Foot of the Bed 10:41 A Corn Bag Sewn From a Feed Sack 12:01 Tomorrow's Clothes Under the Mattress 13:09 Three Young'uns Crossways in One Bed 14:40 An Open-Stitch Afghan Between Two Quilts 16:09 A Quilt Tent Right Over Your Bed 17:37 Newspaper Between Two Thin Quilts 18:58 Heavy Quilts Next to You, Puffy on Top 20:16 A Warm Sad Iron Between the Sheets 21:57 The Shuck Tick, Filled Fresh Every Fall 23:27 The Long-Handled Warming Pan 25:11 The Wool Quilt Pieced From Wore-Out Britches 27:20 The Tied Comfort, Made in One Day 29:03 Curtains Hung Around the Bed 30:35 The Hot Water Bottle, the Right Way 32:12 The Bed When You Sleep Alone Now 33:52 A Heavy Quilt Under Your Bottom Sheet 35:32 The Sack Behind Mama's Kitchen Door 37:11 What Is Under Opal's Bottom Sheet 39:24 Four Generations, Folded and Stacked