As a poor person, maybe most useful advice for other poor people is water bottles. Tap water is colder than the air so I try to keep a plastic water bottle in my hand or pressed against my skin and it helps a lot.

If anyone is in a bind, post your situation and we/I will try to come up with a simple enough solution. My irl qualifications might be useful for the first time online lol: I was homeless for 2 months and have been poor af for my whole life, so i’ve had to ghetto innovate a lot of stuff.

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      One similar to this:

      The only “important” part is that it has a fabric exterior, so that the ice doesn’t “burn” you. But any is good.

      Also, don’t over fill it, ice expands and can make it explode in the freezer

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        Shouldnt it ideally have some kind of thing that lets me keep it against my body when walking? Bc in winter

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          That would be pretty awesome, I don’t know if that exists though. When I’m outside I just use layers, tbh, this is more of a “at home” or “at work” thing.

          But if you don’t care too much about what other people think, you can directly throw it under your shirt, they are not that heavy

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            other people think, you can directly throw it under your shirt,

            I was doing this the other day. I kept on forgetting it was in my shirt and when I stood up it fell out. Tips for this?

            Off the top of my head, I can imagine a pantyhose holder scarf thing

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              No idea honestly, I guess it depends on your specific model… The best I can think is tying two together (they usually have a hanging hole on one end) and throwing it over your shoulder