When I was younger, we didn’t have a reliable heating source in our house, however dad had an aged coal furnace in the basement, however it was out more than it was burning.
Most days, mom would be up and have the oven on.
The door to the oven would be open to heat the living room. I remember several days when she would wrap a blanket around me so I could get warm. I swore I would never use an oven as a upgrade heating source for the furnace. My husband is an Heating and Air Conditioning professional so I never need to worry about having a working furnace. My friend and I have the best Heating and Air Conditioning system in the neighborhood because my husband is typically upgrading. I know I shouldn’t say he is just an Heating and Air Conditioning professional; He owns the local Heating and Air Conditioning company. He has access to all the latest and greatest Heating and Air Conditioning equipment, and he never wanted his kids to worry about being too sizzling or too cold, like we did as kids. I was teasing him one day, about the temperature control. I said I thought we needed a current one, because it was a bit freezing in the home that day. He looked at me and smiled. He asked if I had the oven door open. All I could do was laugh, which woke up our youngest son, who was now sixteen. He was complaining we woke him up with all the noise down here, and he asked what was so funny. My husband told him I was going to bake because it was freezing in the living room. He didn’t the joke and mumbled something about aged people.