Space heaters are no match to heated flooring
My mom remarried when I was only ten years old, and it was a huge adjustment for me.
I had always been really close with my dad, so it was difficult when I had to move in with her and her new husband.
I hated their new house. It just didn’t feel like home like it did at my dad’s house. He had a really cool set up, and my bedroom was huge! My mom moved into an old cabin somewhere up in the woods. What I loved the most about my dad’s house was his heated floors. I had no idea heated floors even existed! He said that when he went to his a/c technician to install a new heating system, he found out about this new technology. Heated floors are perfect for his house because he lives in the mountains and it gets pretty cold. Sometimes I purposely fell asleep on the floor just because it was so warm with its heating technology. My mom and step dad’s house was super cold and they didn’t even have central heating. They only used space heaters. When you come from the newfound luxury of heated flooring with your dad, you definitely don’t want to sit in an old smelly cabin in the middle of winter with nothing to warm you up but a single space heater in your room. I didn’t think at that age I would have to spell it out to my mom that we needed an improved heating system for the sake of our safety. It just wasn’t cool, and I tried to tell her how cold I was, but she cared more about her new husband than she did about me.