When the weather starts to get chilly, I start looking for any way at all to keep warm. I do not enjoy feeling cold--at all. In fact, as a kid, my favorite place to sit at my grandmother's house was on top of the kitchen radiator. She had those old steam-heat radiators, and the one in the kitchen was right under the window near the kitchen table. I'd take a folded dish towel to use for a cushion, and sit down on the warm radiator. 
During my senior year in college, I lived off-campus in an apartment. It was no luxury apartment, let me tell you. And the northern-Pennsylvania winter was cold and icy. My roommates and I ventured into hardware stores, looking for plastic to line our windows and any other things we could find that would stop the drafts from blowing through the place. I used to put my pajamas onto the radiator there, to get them warmed up before I had to put them on. A Snuggie would have come in handy in that apartment, that's for sure.
Even now, I love to find the warmest spot. So when we repainted the bathroom a couple of years ago, I had a great idea. I hung the towel rack directly over the vent for our forced-hot-air heat. In the early morning, the heat kicks on and warms up my towel while I'm taking a shower. Nice!
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2 Responses to “Creature Comforts”
My grandmother had those radiators as well. They pump out the heat! I loved sleeping in that house during the winter.
In my neck of the woods tried doing something like putting a towel or PJ's on the radiator. Except in this old house I was renting didn't have a radiator, it had a floor furnace. To dry them I put Dickies work pants on it and the pants being polyester melted like plastic. I still laugh about it today.