Claire's Random Thoughts

This is post 3/7 in my weekly series of my Winter Survival 2008-2009

Earmuffs are like hats in that they are usually optional, so I don’t typically wear them. In fact, I more often use my headphones as a substitute for earmuffs instead of actual earmuffs (see the picture to the left). The picture to the left of this paragraph is one of the soft inside of my Bose QuietComfort 3 Noise Cancelling headphones. I never used to walk around with headphones on until one day when I didn’t feel like turning off my music after leaving the library. It also happened to be a windy and moderately cold day, and I couldn’t help but notice that my ears were significantly warmer than the rest of my head was.
Or, of course, a less expensive and more practical alternative could be my regular Target earmuffs, compliments of Athena. By the way, I don’t really use my headphones as earmuffs that often, since I rarely use earmuffs of any kind unless it’s under 25 degrees (farenheit of course). I thought I would just throw the idea out there, because I seem to use both at about the same level of frequency, and I thought the headphones were pretty effective for doing the job, even though that wasn’t what they were made for.