4 Clever Ways to Stay Cool This Summer Without Going Broke

Summer is the best time of the year!

There’s campfires, the beach, and late night adventures, not to mention the warmth! It’s that glorious time of the year when the weather finally heats up and swaddles you like a blanket of love. Unfortunately, like a clingy one-night-stand, it stays most of the day and well into the night, making it rather burdensome at times. When the heat of summer becomes too much to handle, here are some ways you can beat it without breaking the bank.

1. Make Yourself Sweat
   

   Sweat cools the body down by moistening the skin and then evaporating the heat with that fluid (sounds disgusting). It’s like your body’s own personal waterpark that nobody would ever want to attend. For best results, we recommend you go jogging in sweatpants during high noon. Just think, each drop of sweat is like a really cool, invitation-only, Hollywood party  for low temperatures. Just don’t pass out!

2. Work at the McMurdo Station in Antartica
   

   McMurdo is the United States’ research base on the coldest continent in the world. The Southern Hemisphere’s winter (which happens to begin in June), has had the coldest temperature ever recorded reach −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) on July 21, 1983. That will certainly keep you cool. Bonus: because of the location of Antartica, there’s a couple of weeks in June where the sun will not rise, so not only will it be really cold, it will also be really dark (and let’s not forget depressing). Pack your bags and be sure to remember your polar bear spray.

3. Start using the word “grool”
   

   Now, I realize this isn’t exactly the most fool-proof way of staying out of the heat, but bear with me because it makes you “cool” of a different sort. You start saying “grool” and people will think you’re rad. These people will also have groovy friends that you can befriend too. Slowly work your way to the top of the “cool” pyramid till you get close enough to Matthew Mcconaughey to talk him into paying for your air-conditioning. It’s a process like everything in life.

4. Go into Abercrombie and Fitch
   

   Not only can you combine the previous tactic here (there’s literally nothing in the universe that’s cooler than Abercrombie and Fitch), the store is also the most air-conditioned place on this planet. Simply walk inside, pick up the most expensive item in the store, like this $110 pair of ripped shorts, and then stand there or an hour “debating” whether you want them. Finally, “come to the concision” that you can’t afford them and leave. Repeat everyday until October.

[Featured Image Credit:bark via Flickr]