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why would you do this

It just seems right?

Lianne La Havas

Thats... Actually not a bad idea? Like obviously not everyone owns a tent but it isn't terribly hard to get your hands on a cheap one (atleast in the us). The weather rating on tents has more to do with how they withstand the elements (how wet can they get) than how insulated they are. You probably wouldn't want one that's mostly mesh, but otherwise just about any tent will sleep really warm, especially with several people in it. Might be cold when you go to bed. But it should warm up fast.

Many of these climate change crazy weather tips seem to be pretty ineffective or of limited use, but this one seems like an actual good idea to me.

Beyond Walmart, google maps outdoor or sport gear. Most of those will have some sort of cheap tent, though I would avoid REI as they really only carry more expensive options.

This is actually largely the original idea behind four-poster beds. Castles are a bugger to heat, especially stone ones. But if your bed has its own roof and tapestries that hang down on all four sides, you basically have a tiny room with woolen walls.

Yeah, I was gonna say, canopied beds actually work like this.

Other options, if you don’t want to buy a tent, include tarps, emergency blankets, or quilts suspended over the bed from the ceiling like a tent - you want something that will keep your heat in a smaller area, rather than out in the whole room. if you’re only one person, sleeping in your closet or potentially a bathtub with a blanket over it will help (but only if your bathtub is well-insulated or you put down lots of insulation inside - otherwise you’ll lose heat through the bathtub). Put your pillowfort construction skills to use.

The idea is to reduce the amount of space that your body heat is trying to fill, and then trap that heat in that smaller space. More people produce more heat, so getting everyone in the fam into that smaller space is even better - include pets if possible (pets, small children, and the elderly produce less heat on their own, and will be really vulnerable to the cold if left alone).

Depending on how permeable your bed-tent is, you might want to leave an air-space at the bottom of the walls - carbon monoxide is heavier than air, so it will sink, and the gap will let it escape (along with some heat, but better than suffocating). Not a concern in a tent, which has mesh for a reason, but if you’re using something more air-tight like plastic sheeting or an emergency blanket, it could be a concern.

[Image description: a social media post with author and date cropped out: "Tip for those who don't have heat. Get a tent and place it on your bed. Cover it with 1 or 2 blankets for insulation. This kept our family warm when the temps dropped to 40 in the room but inside the tent it was 80 degrees. We used a $20 tent from Walmart that has been sitting in my garage since last year. If you have one and don't have power I recommend doing this or buying one because who knows how long you will have power for. The kids had a blast and went to sleep warm and comfy. Stay safe everyone. #TexasStrong" Below is a photo of two children asleep in a tent on a bed. Description ends]

For those in the UK and Europe, who may not be able to afford heating this winter, and don’t do Fahrenheit, the temperatures mentioned translate to 5C and 27C.

This child who came to my house tonight is literally the funniest human being on the planet. She complimented me on having both lollipops and mini Three Musketeers available because "a lot of houses these days don't give you a fruit flavor option." She was very solemn about this.

May I present to you: freckles overlays! This is an overlay box by @episims​​ and myself which contains 25 freckles overlays. There are freckles for the arms, legs, back and front, and each overlay comes in six different densities. Of course you can combine them, so your sims can have only a freckled back, or freckled arms and legs -or all at once! It’s up to you! Oliver’s body freckles (by @deedee-sims​​) are included as a bonus with thanks.

The overlay box is a freckled mannequin torso found in Misc/Dressers for 27§. Freckles are available for all ages and supernaturals states (they will show under plantsim/vampire/werewolf overlays). I’ve used a simplified method for making these, after deleting a bunch of resources from overlay packages I think were unnecessary. They seem to work properly in my game, but let me know if you find any problems. And that’s all! Enjoy!

Download SFS | Dropbox

Credits:

• Epi for the 24 separated arms, legs, back and front freckles textures, for the freckled torso mannequin and for the cute preview and swatch.
• Jessi for the face freckles Epi used as a base to make the former. Don’t forget to check them out if you haven’t already!
  
• DeeDee for the full body freckles texture, which are the ones Oliver uses in her story Plus One, and Pheberoni for the brush she used.
  
• @twofee​​ for the original freckles overlay box, which was obviously a huge inspiration for this work.
• Special thanks to @itsdiamondeyesuniverse​​ for pushing me into doing this and learning how to make overlay boxes in the first place. 

UPDATE 24/05/21: I’ve made some changes to fix a no face/wrong face issue reported by some simmers. Please redownload if you’ve experienced this problem!

“A tadpole doesn’t know it’s gonna grow bigger. It just swims, and figures limbs are for frogs. People don’t know the power they hold. They just sing hymns, and figure saving is for god.”

— Andrea Gibson, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns