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What do you wear to bed? I really don’t need you to answer that one out loud, just think about it. If you’re lucky, about a third of your day is spent in bed, which makes the odds of an emergency happening while you’re in your PJ’s pretty good. In the event of an earthquake, fire, or other night time emergency, can you wake up, jump out of bed, put on the shoes you’re keeping nearby and evacuate your house in what you have on?
In some cases it might just be slightly embarrassing to have the neighbors see you in your night attire, but in other cases (such as being under-dressed for a cold night time evacuation) what you wore to bed could endanger your safety or health. You cold sleepers that are always bundled up shouldn’t have any problem, but if you’re a hot sleeper, consider taking off a blanket or two and wearing more substantial pajamas. Just a little something to think about as you’re heading off to dreamy land tonight!
I tried to convince my ex of the same principles!
My summertime attire in bed would be decent outdoors in an emergency even though it reveals more than I would like. However, winter atttire is plenty decent and warm, very warm, even socks!
Another thing I try to mind is the weather during the waking hours. If a tornado is a possibility during the day, I keep socks and shoes on along with pants and sturdy top. I would never have watched for a tornado in srapless top, short shorts, and flip flops, even though I would wear those items of clothing.
If I were tense about weather during day, I made sure all children who decided to undress were clothed. You know how little kids are.
There is no other possiblity for a catastrophe where I live, but we do have two tornado seasons. Plus, this town is hit more often than any in the state, in Dixie Alley.
Heaven help the naked sleepers.
I am always well clothed with pajamas all year round and I also wear socks to bed. We keep 72 hour emergency backpacks by our back door so that they are easily accessible in a hurry. I also have a baby emergency backpack that holds my one year old’s things that she needs including diapers and extra clothes. They are a larger size than she currently is because I would hate to forget about it for a while only to find out when we really needed it that she was too big for the clothes in it.