The Art Of Keeping Warm During The Winter.

      I have had an outside job almost all of my life and I had to learn on my own on how to keep warm. I just finished a winter and spring is on the way. But many of you around the world are just starting your winter. I an going to give you a few tips on how I have learned to keep warm and then pass it onto you. I hope these Words of Wisdom will do you all some good.
      Rule number one is to cover your head with a warm hat. Then tie a bandanna around your neck and put a pair of cotton gloves on your hands. A lot of body heat is lost when a person does not wear a warm hat and a bandanna. The Bandanna not only covers your neck but it also will keep the cold air off of your chest, and this really does the job when the wind is blowing. I have worn a bandanna all of my life maybe 80% of the time. I even wear one in the summer time. It is either on my neck or my eyebrows to collect the sweat, and it does the job very well. But in the winter time when it is cold outside if your head and neck is covered this will greatly help you not to catch a Cold or the Flu. A good diet of fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains will also prevent the common Cold.
      When the weather outside is cold but not cold enough for a heavy winter coat, I will wear a tee shirt, a long sleeve cotton shirt, a long sleeve flannel shirt, a pair of pants and two pair of socks in side my shoes. I will also wear a warm hat and a bandanna. Even if I am outside only a few minutes it is best to wear a warm jacket or a long sleeve shirt, a hat and bandanna. You will see people outside all the time with a warm jacket or a coat but they have nothing on the head or the neck. They will get sick if they do not start taking care of themselves.
      At my place of employment, the outside doors go up and down all day long in the winter time and there are several of these doors. It is quite cold and drafty inside the building and when I first started working there I was the only one wearing a warm hat and a bandanna. People would ask me why I would wear a bandanna that is chocking me all day. I told them that they too would be wise to wear a bandanna in that cold building that it would keep them a lot more warmer and they would not get sick very often. I worked at this company for 20 years before I got laid off and just about everyone in that cold building was now wearing a bandanna around their necks.
      When it gets really cold outside lets say from 0 degrees to 30 or 40 degrees below zero I will wear one or two warm hats, two bandannas, one for the neck and one for your face, two long sleeve cotton shirts, a long sleeve flannel shirt, a double extra large wind breaker if the wind is blowing, a good winter coat, a pair of pajamas under my pants or two pajamas for very cold weather, two pair of gloves or some heavy duty welding gloves and two pair of cotton socks followed by a pair of wool boot socks. Then wear insulated work boots or winter boots. I have worked all day long in some very cold weather outside and I did not get cold. Always remember to wear too much rather then too little in very cold weather. You can always remove clothes if it was warmer outside then what you thought it to be. After I had worked for several years outside my company felt sorry for me and they bought me some insulated coveralls and a heavy duty winter coat. But the clothes I have listed up above do keep you warm when the winters become bitter cold. The only drawback I had for getting cold, my company made everyone wear steel toed shoes and no matter what kind of socks you wore the steel toed boots kept your feet cold all day long in cold weather and there was nothing that I could do about it. So when it comes to wearing steel toed shoes in the winter time, I do not have a Remedy on how to keep your feet warm during the cold winter months. I did get laid off in the winter time and I was thank full for not to having cold feet for the rest of the winter.