An old joke remembered

[Warpy]

4. They're called pants warmers

and every big Irish family has at least one of them.

She's the one who'd creep downstairs after gathering all the mens' pants and build up the fire and hang the pants up so their dear little arses wouldn't get cold, using up all the turf so there would be no fuel to make tea.

In other words, she lives for those little pats on the head from men.