I can still smell this
Posted by gengarcuddles@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 41 comments
Being closer to winter now I sometimes think back to the basement where my play room and dad’s workshop were. The chocolate shag carpet and bare concrete. And one of these pulled out to heat the space with the pungent scent of kerosene filling the area. It would mix with the scent of wood and a hint of musty damp air. I’d never want one again but the memories are nice.
amccune@reddit
I had a friend who had his heat cut off because of non payment and had two of these in his place. Inside. Dude. That can’t be good for you.
hextasy@reddit
I still use one of these at the cabin!
jamescb819@reddit
Best space heaters. Until they’re not.
Helo7606@reddit
Don't miss these. Bad memories with these.
Echterspieler@reddit
Still have the one my dad got for the garage. we use it during power outages. thing is as old as me I think
Channelten@reddit
Same. Our furnace also went out over a holiday weekend. Glad I had extra Kerosene.
LemurCat04@reddit
I keep one around for emergency heat. That week without power after Hurricane Sandy sucked hard enough I’m willing to put up with it.
ShillinTheVillain@reddit
Me too, because I still use it in the shop.
Nevermind the cough
kl1n60n3mp0r3r@reddit
These things work great! I still have a couple at my cottage!
graveybrains@reddit
So great I still have a couple of scars!
kl1n60n3mp0r3r@reddit
lol - don’t we all?!
ezhammer@reddit
If cozy had a smell.
BrattyTwilis@reddit
I remember going with my dad to buy one of these things because our power went out in the middle of winter and we needed heat
realoctopod@reddit
I stillnhave a few of these, was collecting them for awhile. Work great if the power goes out.
GreedyComedian1377@reddit
One of the weirdest things I ever did. When I was 13, me and my cousin heard you could smoke banana peel and get high(I know). Anyways we fired up a heater just like that, put peels on top of it as a drying tool. Once the peels were sufficiently dried we crushed it, loaded a bowl and smoked the harshest shit ever. Did not achieve any kind of buzz, just scorched our throats.
realoctopod@reddit
They call it Mellow Yellow.
butt_honcho@reddit
Good old bananadine.
JeffTS@reddit
Many nights spent around a kerosene heater in my garage with friends.
Charming_Ad1688@reddit
YES
heresmytwopence@reddit
I owned a more current one until moving to a warmer climate 5 years ago. I regret not bringing it. In addition to space-heating, they make good food warmers. I remember reheating McDonald's burgers on it when we had a multi-day power outage 11 years ago.
zealot_ratio@reddit
We used these in our house, to supplement the ancient baseboard heat that upstate winters just laughed at. I can smell and feel them....I think I still have a burn scar.
CokBlockinWinger@reddit
My old band practiced in a literal shack for three nights a week, four hours a night through some brutally cold winters, and one of these was our warmth.
butt_honcho@reddit
I still have this. Winter power outages are no fun, especially when you live twenty miles out of town and are low on the repair priority list.
AintNobody-@reddit
Oh man, we had that exact model. Maybe this was the only model, hah.
EssentialOilsFor7@reddit
I still use one! We have a 3-seasons glass windowed sun room that we love so much, we use a kerosene heater just like this to use the room year-round.
shortergirl06@reddit
Still have one as emergency heat if there's a power outage in the winter. A jug of kerosene will last forever, and it's better than frozen pipes.
a-type-of-pastry@reddit
Oh geez yeah, I can taste it. Dad had 2 of these he would bust out when the power would fail in winter.
The '07 ice storm had us out for 9 days and we used one of these. Took like a month and a half for the smell to air out afterward.
42ElectricSundaes@reddit
Smells like cancer
Treadingresin@reddit
Our TV was in the basement so we had one of these. Sat in-between the grown ups lounge/recliner chairs. They used to make popcorn on top of it!
maggie320@reddit
I’m surprised I don’t have black lung from this thing.
OkBaconBurger@reddit
Ours was the rectangle box style. We set it up on the TV room when winter hit. Our house was old and drafty and I would lay on the floor in front of it to stay toasty.
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
I’ve never seen one of these. Is this a common thing? The first house I remember living in had a furnace in the floor that got so hot it melted my footy pajamas I was wearing. Our bathroom had a fire furnace in the wall that you’d light with a match. It had these plates? that would get white hot and you could see flames behind them. Other than those things we didn’t have another source of heat.
Mission_Fart9750@reddit
It's a kerosene heater. We had one in our garage.
nhranger@reddit
CO generator. How many people did those things kill?
redditcreditcardz@reddit
Smells like warmth
soundboy64@reddit
I can still feel the pain… tripped at camp over another kid’s feet while walking past and braced myself from falling - placed my hand on the top black surface and the lucky winner of a second degree burn all over my palm.
elonmusktheturd22@reddit
Omg
My insane uncle heated with these while squatting in my grandmother's old house. When the boiler broke he was too lazy and cheap to fix it replace it so he put these in every room. Along with all the trash he hoarded.
Had mold and soot an inch thick on the walls after a couple years.
BK_0000@reddit
If you run it long enough, you can taste it, too.
pinstash@reddit
We had a wall heater growing up, man that thing stunk when you first fired it up in winter, all that dust that would build up, my friend down the street had a floor unit, it smelled just as bad and you didn't dare step on the metal covering the huge vent bare foot lol
dishwasher_mayhem@reddit
I'm pretty sure ours was nuclear
Worried-Trade-6407@reddit
Oh that was fancy one!