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You can tell a lot about a person by the way that they keep their bedroom. Most of the girls I’ve been with are total slobs when it comes to a tidy resting place. Clothes strewn all over the floor, a giant mirror that never got hung, and piles of clothes that still have tags on them. This is what I like to call “the returnables pile.” This particular kind of clothing either didn’t fit to their liking, or they wore it out once and now want their money back. If you didn’t know, most of this clothing doesn’t get returned for weeks, and it’s more than likely from Forever 21, Akira, or J. Crew, depending on the type of girl we’re talking about.
If you’d like to talk about tidy rooms, though, mine is right up there with the cleanest of the clean. I have the privilege of having a washer and dryer in my apartment. This means I can do laundry whenever I want and I always fold it and put it away safely immediately following a spin in the dryer. I like to keep a window open at night, and I have two fans going at all hours of the day. One oscillates and sits in the corner of my room, while the other is situated near the head of my bed, which allows my face to get a nice cool breeze whenever I’m laying down.
In my mind, there is no question that everyone needs at least one fan going while sleeping. But this seems to be a point of contention for a lot of people, mainly women I’ve slept with. Some love the fan. Others go so far as to make me turn it off during the night because it’s distracting them from sleep. While I definitely don’t believe that this is as big of hot budding issue as loofah-versus-washcloth or taking two showers a day, I need to know if I’m the psycho for having a bunch of fans on during the night. I inherited the habit from my parents I guess. When I was a small child and would sometimes create a pallet at the foot of their bed, they would always have a fan going, be it the ceiling fan or a larger one somewhere in the room.
Is it a regional thing? Are people in large cities less inclined than people like me (from small Midwestern towns) to utilize the greatness that is a fan during the nighttime hours? Before a few months ago, I legitimately thought that everyone slept with a fan on, if not for a breeze than for the soothing sound that it makes. One girl I used to see last winter told me some bullshit about her Korean grandmother telling her that sleeping with a fan on with the door closed leads to death. She explained nothing further, but sure enough, there’s a Wikipedia page about it and everything. I won’t delve too far into it, because you can go read the page if you’d like more information, but essentially what I got from it is that leaving a fan on can lead to hyperthermia, or heat stress. Obviously bullshit, as my fans are the only thing keeping me from dying during the summer months with no air conditioning.
The next complaint I got was from an old flame last fall, who said she was getting a sore throat from the fan and I needed to turn it off. This one, while still more believable than the Korean death myth, is also pure, unadulterated horse hockey. You know why people claim they get sore throats from a fan being on all the time? Filthy rooms. This, my friends, is not a problem for me. I Swiffer and vacuum my place at least once a week. In my next life, I could be a fucking hotel maid. That’s how clean my room is. Not to mention the fact that I clean the blades on both of my fans twice a month to prevent dust build up. Is it OCD? Maybe, but it’s better than being surrounded by dust all the time. I have asthma and I’ve never had a problem with my fans causing my throat to dry up or get sore. Boom, roasted, non-fan people. Get out of my face with your false accusations and attempts to make me uncomfortable. Team fan for life. Or until I get someone makes an air conditioner that makes a sound similar to my fan. .
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I love a good ceiling fan, because, as you pointed out, of both the breeze and the noise.
I don’t leave it on all the time because I was conditioned by years of yelling by my dad so my finger automatically flicks off the switch of every room I leave every time. My office doesn’t have a light switch (the whole bay of 5 offices has a shared switch) and it gives me a chill every time I leave the lighted room at the end of the day.
Mine would do rounds of patrolling the house and loudly call out the number of those that were left on “ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, etc.”…… and that, gents, is why I’m afraid of numbers.
Just had a morning coffee talk about fans this morning. My stance is during the summer that bad boy stays on high 24/7. During the winter I go with a nice low speed at night, just to keep the air moving.
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Seriously. There has to be a way to stop these posts.
Or is Grandex behind them and cashing in on such post?
I’m from the South.The fan stays on 24/7, 365 days a year but the light goes off when I leave the room. I am legitimately baffled by people who install chandeliers and other lighting in their homes instead of fans. Total insanity.
Texas here. Growing up I literally would get in trouble for turning the fan off. Slower speeds, fine, but turning them off?? Blasphemy! My dad would have a conniption
Let’s be honest, the girl who claimed to get a sore throat from the fan is trying to use the fan as an excuse for either being a fucking mouth breathing Neanderthal or she genuinely likes a diverse culture of cylindrical meat columns down there before she goes to bed at night.
Wha?
Dicks, she likes dicks in her mouth.
I never had air conditioning growing up so I always had a fan going when sleeping and now I’m just so used to it I keep one on at all times.
Must have been tough growing up in Somalia.
These (dirt) streets ain’t easy, man.
I grew up in CT. Almost no one had central air (but window units were common). Almost everyone did have a swimming pool through. A/C just wasn’t commonly installed there until recently.
Having lived in Texas my whole life, I am completely baffled by the idea that it could be even remotely enjoyable to sleep with a window open. This summer very well might kill you Johnny. Welcome to the South #teamfan
Open windows at night in Texas is pure insanity. Up here in Minnesota, nothing better to fall asleep to then a rain shower and an open window
I absolutely cannot sleep without the noise of a fan. People who can are strange and should be shunned from society.
I sleep with a minimum of two fans on. I always have a small one on my nightstand going at all times and then I’ll turn on the ceiling fan before I go to bed. For me it’s partially to keep cool, but it’s also the soothing sound, I can’t sleep in dead silence.
Team fan for life. Trying to sleep in a room without the sweet sound of a fan whirring is absolutely miserable, so much silence. Not to mention, the fan plus the one leg sticking out combo is ideal for extra warm nights.
Agreed! A bedroom without the sound of a fan whirring is not a room for me.
I guess you could say I’m a fan.
Highly underated comment here.