The Nude Life

In a few hours, it will be 2008!

Thousands of nudists all across the USA will be celebrating the coming of the new year nude, as we will be doing with 50 or so of our closest nudist friends at our club’s annual New Year’s Eve Party.  I can assure you there is no more pleasant and more fun way to spend the New Year’s Eve night that hanging out and partying with people who never forgot how to relax and have fun, which is what nudists have found.

It’s hard to remember what we ever did on NYE night before we became nudists. Dull evenings with a small group of (clothed) friends, semi-forced together for the night so as not to have to spend it alone at home. Or, worse yet, crammed into a dim hotel ballroom with hundreds of stuffy strangers, listening to a terrible band and jostling elbow-to-elbow on an overcrowded dance floor — and trying not to notice all the sad looks on the faces of the hotel staff who are required to work on a night they’d much rather be home with their families.

Partying nude with fun-loving, friendly, unpretentious folks certainly beats all of that by a wide margin. Best of all, there’s no need to try to shoehorn yourself into a suit or dress for the night!

Whatever you’re doing for NYE tonight, we hope it is a good one, and we wish all the readers of The Nude Life Blog a healthy, happy and nude 2008!

And be sure to check out The Nude Life Forum, where other nudists from around the world are checking in with their New Year’s Eve plans, and share some of your own!

We spent this past Christmas Day at home as we have the last four years, hosting a nude Christmas dinner party for a small group of our nudist friends who, like us, are without family in the area to celebrate with.

The day was most enjoyable. Calm winds and temperatures moderate enough to allow full use of the outdoor hot tub added to the warmth and coziness of the indoors. A dozen-plus fun-loving nudist friends made it even more relaxing, and we shared a wonderful meal and then a fun night of socializing, hot tubbing and visiting.

It’s fair to say that we will really miss the little tradition we have had of a nude Christmas Day with friends over the past few years, if the day ever comes when we won’t be able to enjoy such an occasion. Thankfully, we are looking forward to many more nude Christmas Days (and every other kind of day!) in retirement next year as we move to a nudist resort in Florida. Doubtless every holiday is celebrated there nude, and so what is now a special occasion for us will be “just another day” — or will it?

Did you get a chance to be nude over the Christmas holiday — with friends or without? Join the chat on The Nude Life Forum where nudists from around the world are discussing their nude holidays and their plans for more nude time in 2008!

As the end of the year approaches, we look back with satisfaction at the amount of blissful nude time we have enjoyed throughout the year.Starting with last New Year’s Eve, we entered 2007 nude at the annual “Nude Year’s Eve” party our club hosts every year, and spent a glorious nine days on the nude cruise in February. Frequent parties through the year with our nudist club gave dozens more opportunities for nude fun from spring through fall, and we’re still looking forward to a nude Christmas Day and of course New Year’s Eve with our nudist friends.

Working from home affords the wonderful luxury of earning a living while nude, too, and we spend nearly every day from March through October nude at home “earning” a living. Indeed, for much of the year, it’s easier to count up the hours we spend clothed.

But with 2008 coming up, there are still several nude “goals” we’d like to meet in the new year. With any luck, each of these activities will be done nude at some time during 2008, if our current plans come through:

• Moving to a nudist resort to live full-time (mid-year)
• Washing the car nude — a long-sought wish
• Nude bowling — we’re trying to arrange that one now!
• Nude roller skating — missed a chance to do that in the past, but we won’t again in 2008

What kinds of unusual sports / activities / work have you been able to do in the buff? What’s still left on your nude ‘to-do’ list that you’d like to cross off in 2008? Check the list of what others have accomplished on their “nude to-do” lists — and add your own! — in The Nude Life Forum.

I was reminded over the weekend exactly how much heat is given off by nude human bodies.

It’s a considerable amount of heat. Put 20 or 30 or 50 nude folks together in a house, as we had at our holiday party over the weekend, and the indoor temperature rises pretty quickly. All of that bare skin is radiating heat from several square feet of surface area per person. With normal human skin temperature at about 91F (33C), that is a LOT of heat being dumped into a rather small space.

As the party started on Saturday night and the crowd arrived, the indoor air temperature in the house was on the cool side of comfortable for being nude. As more and more folks arrived, it warmed up quite quickly. By the time the evening was in full-bore and we had a large complement of 40-plus nudists scattered throughout three or four large rooms in the house, everyone was quite comfortably warm–to the point where thermostat control for the furnace showed an air temperature of some 82F (28C). Needless to say, no one was chilled.

I remember one nudist party we hosted a year or so ago, on a very chilly night. We were afraid our guests would be cold, and so we kept the temperature in the house up to about 84F before they started to arrive. Once everyone got to the party and got their clothes off, we soon realized that cooling was going to be the problem, not heating. I not only wound up turning the furnace down for the evening, but we eventually had to open a few windows to let in some cool night air and bring the indoor temperature down to a more comfortable level.

Add that to how warm anyone feels after climbing out of the hot tub, then heading back indoors to the warmth generated by dozens of their fellow nudists, and the story is the same: nudists give off excess heat as compared to clothed folks, and shedding your clothes can actually cut your heating load — if you have enough nude friends to help you, that is!

What’s your experience in keeping warm as a nudist through the winter? Discuss this and dozens of other topics with other nudists from around the world in The Nude Life Forum.