I'm a widow. I live alone outside Augusta, Georgia, on one fixed check, and I've been through ice storms with no power for days. My daughter kept saying, Mama, write it all down. So I did: what to buy, where, in what order, and exactly what to do when the lights go out.
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The power went out on a Sunday evening in January. I did what we'd always done when my husband was living: blankets, a sweater, the big chair in the living room. But a plan made for two people doesn't work for one. By nine o'clock I was colder than I had ever been in my own house, and nobody was there to say so.
My daughter called and said, "Mama, go get in the bed and close the door." Half an hour later I was warm. That was the night I started writing it all down.
Living alone through winter isn't about buying more. It's about the order, the one warm room, and somebody who calls every day.
I'm Odessa Grant. I'm not an expert and I don't sell gadgets. I'm a woman who was raised partly by her grandmother in the country, who went through the 2014 ice storm in Augusta, and who has kept a house through forty Georgia winters on a budget. This book is that plan, set out so you can do it this fall, one check at a time.
Most women alone get caught by the same few things: the dark, the cold room, the frozen pipe, the empty pill bottle, the icy step. Fix those first and the rest of winter is just weather.
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Most of the cold you feel in bed comes from underneath. We pile blankets on top and forget the mattress is sitting in a cold room. My grandmother put a quilt under the sheet before she put one on top.
Lay a wool or fleece blanket flat on the mattress, under the fitted sheet. Use flannel sheets if you have them. Then several thin blankets instead of one heavy one, the heaviest on top, and tuck the sides in. Clean, dry wool socks and a knit cap. Close the bedroom door and lay a rolled towel along the bottom of it.
That's one page. The book has 117.
Every mistake women alone make, why it matters when nobody is in the next room, exactly what to do instead, and a checklist at the end of each chapter.
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I'm Odessa Grant. I grew up partly in my grandmother's house in rural Burke County, Georgia, where the pantry was always full and the lamp always had one place on one shelf. In February 2014 I sat through the Augusta ice storm listening to limbs fall all night. Four years later I was a widow, and my first winter alone taught me what a woman on her own really needs.
My daughter calls me every evening. I check on my neighbor across the street after every storm. And I keep my plan on the kitchen calendar, one small job a month.
I'm not an expert. I'm a woman who lives alone and learned it the hard way, so you don't have to.
No. The book starts with what you already own and spreads the rest across your checks from late summer on, with about-prices for every store. It tells you what to walk past as plainly as what to buy.
Yes. There's a section for renters and senior housing: what to ask the landlord, how to keep a storm kit in one tub under the bed, and how a neighbor across the hall becomes your check-in partner.
No. It's about ordinary winters: the ice storm, the power out for a day or three, the frozen pipe, the icy step. Plain, practical and calm, with safety rules from public sources like the CDC, the US Fire Administration and the USDA.
No. It's a PDF, 117 pages. It opens on your phone, tablet or computer. Print the checklists at home or at your library and put them on the refrigerator.
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