I wouldn’t say I grew up in a lower class family, my associate and I never wanted for anything, however looking back, I have to wonder… My pal and I lived in the West so it never really got that frigid however still, I have to question my parents’ choices for heating the house.
My pal and I didn’t have central heating, or anything like that.
My pal and I didn’t even have modern space heater. My parents would use the oven to heat the dwelling in the winter! It was a common gas oven & they would turn it on to 350 degrees & leave it running for days. They were always sure to crack a window open in the kitchen though to make sure my associate and I didn’t all die or carbon dioxide or something; And these were in the days before CO2 detectors were even invented. If the oven wasn’t enough to heat the entire house, they would use outdated fashioned space boilers that were basically coil wires behind a grill. The coil wires got red-hot & were rather effective, even though they were a fire hazard. I remember that my associate and I had to be careful walking around these space boilers because they got so tepid that they would melt the glue under the tiles so the tiles would slip & move if you walked on them near the heater, and still, no one ever got hurt or lacked oxygen & the dwelling never burned down & I really don’t know if our heating was any strange than the way everyone else did it a few decades ago… But with central heating & space boilers now that turn themselves off if a piece of dust gets caught in them, I have to wonder how my associate and I all survived before.