You must be dealing with a broken furnace if...

Your washrag freezes to the side of your sink.


You fail in an attempt to defrost a ham by leaving it on the counter.


You now know for certain which electrical outlets are on the same circuit breakers because you've blown many breakers trying to plug in space heaters.


You think an interior room temperature of 60 sounds positively balmy.


You're runnning out of clean sweatshirts.


All of your family is sleeping in the same bedroom so they can share the heat.


You are actually caught up on laundry because you've been running your washing machine trying to keep it from freezing.

You pray for your furnace repair man and his ability to fix things.

Your three year old complains that his feet hurt once the heat comes back on.

Seriously...praise the Lord for heat. After 6 days without, I count it as a blessing to have heat. I can't imagine living on the streets or in your car in the cold Midwestern winters. Don't know how people to it. (And sorry that they have to.)