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bathroom confession of the day
It's winter here and we don't have central heat (most Aussie homes don't), so all rooms that don't have space heaters are freeeeeezing. Obviously this includes the bathroom. Which means everything in the bathroom is also freezing...including the toilet seat.
OMFG that thing is cold! I don't just mean "oooh that's a little chilly on my hiney" cold, I'm talking about tushie-clenching, shrieking at the top of your lungs freezing, the kind that makes you wonder if your butt is going to stick to the seat like when you lick a flagpole in winter.
So lately I've been holding it as long as humanly possible before going to the bathroom so that I sit on the toilet seat as few times every day as I can. I'm sure it's doing terrible things to my digestive system, but my butt is warm so I don't care. 
Re: bathroom confession of the day
My place in Japan didn't have heat either! Stupid house was practically made of paper. But, what it did have was a glorious, GLORIOUS, heated toilet seat.
I totally recommend them. My first year, I went without kerosene heaters, and I kid you not, the warmest place in the house was that toilet seat. You need to get one of those bad boys.
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I am soooooo jealous! In my area (Nagano), most people had those creepy drop toilets with a septic system that you had to clean out. I was so cocky when I told everyone I had a water flushing toilet.....until winter came and all my drop-toilet friends had heated seats!
I can't believe you went without a heater! Of course, what is the point of the heater, sort of, when there's also a hole in the wall to the outside so that you don't die of carbon monoxide poisoning? 
I also used my hair dryer to warm up my bedsheets before I went to bed. Ha ha ha!
Ouch -I cringe at the thought of butt frostbite. Maybe you could "pre-heat" the seat with a hairdryer?
This is exactly what I would do! Or roll a towel into a toilet-seat sized loop, then rest it on top of the freezing cold seat and sit on that instead.
eeps, definitely cringe-worthy! and kristianna and alyson - haha, your stories are hilarious.
i definitely give heated seats a thumbs up - once i got over the "ew, this seat is warm" feeling the first few times (like sitting down on a chair someone else was just sitting on...okay, maybe i'm weird), i decided they're great!
what about one of those padded seat covers? that might help, and be more affordable than a heated seat? something like this
lol, that's genius. if you do this, i want to see a photo! and try not to let the towel fall in
Ha! I was in Gifu - you had to swerve into Nagano to actually get into my tiny village. I rather imagine our experiences of winter were the same!
My first year I had *some* heat... in the form of my air conditioners that doubled as heaters. I had really high ceilings in my living room, so it didn't do a very good job of heating the place up. Nothing like waking up and seeing your breath!
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I would, except the toilet is in it's own little room and there isn't room for a heater (or anywhere to plug it into lol!)
I thought about a seat cover like Sandra suggested, but the idea of it accidentally getting man pee on it squicks me out (my husband is normally good about raising and lowering seat covers, but if he's having a drinking and gaming night he can get a bit lazy lol).
THIS! With this, you'll find yourself sitting on the toilet ALL day!