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- Winter is coming,

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but the good news is it
doesn't have to be as cold

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and miserable and depressing

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as I think a lot of us are
worried that it's going to be.

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I'm Liz Segran and I'm
a senior staff writer

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here at Fast Company.

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And I have four suggestions
about how we can spend

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as much time as possible
outside this fall and winter

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even when it gets bitterly cold.

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I've been talking to lots of designers

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and they say that we
don't need to go straight

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into expensive equipment like heat lamps.

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The first thing can be really basic,

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invest in a ton of blankets
that you can keep by the door

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to bring it outside onto
your deck or in your garden,

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or even on your stue

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so that you can spend as much
time as possible out there.

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I have found a range of beautiful blankets

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that are so cozy and
they're really durable

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and good for the outdoors from West Elm.

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And what I've done is I have bought

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a beautiful barricade West Elm basket

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and I fill it with tons of blankets.

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And any time we wanna spend a bit of time

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on our deck drinking some wine,

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all we do is we grab a blanket.

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The problem with the fall months

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is that it starts getting darker earlier

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which makes it less
appealing to go outside.

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But instead of investing in
a whole new lighting system,

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I have found a great solution

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in this beautiful but very simple LED lamp

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from Crate and Barrel.

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This light stays charged
for up to 10 hours,

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which means long evenings
of dinners with friends

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and conversations and
reading a book outside

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with a glass of wine.

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If you live in a particularly
cold part of the country,

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like I do, I live in Boston,

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it's going to get really, really cold

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in January and February.

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So to prepare for that,
I decided to invest

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in an outdoor heating lamb.

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I thought that it would be

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a very expensive prospect
getting an outdoor heater.

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But what I discovered is that
you can get a really good one

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from Home Depot for $150.

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We have already had a
couple of really cold days

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here in Boston,

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and I've used the heating lamb

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to have my mom over for
dinner on the porch.

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And it works really well and
allows us to do something

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that we wouldn't ordinarily be able to do

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without some sort of
outdoor heating system.

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Most of us speak about
grilling as a summer activity,

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but there's no reason why
we can't keep grilling

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into the fall and winter months.

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Grilling is a great way to
continue having people over

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in a safe and socially
distant kind of way.

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We have been using our Spark grill

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well into the colder months,

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and we've been enjoying
it so much in fact,

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that we might make a year long grilling

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kind of a family tradition.

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The pandemic seems like it's
going to be stretching out

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into the fall and winter

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but that doesn't mean that we
need to feel trapped indoors

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when it gets cold.

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The good news is that there
are lots of creative things

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that can be doing to
spend more time outside

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and socializing well into the cold months.

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(wind blowing)