There’s a hot new home trend that's far from getting the cold shoulder. As a deep freeze envelops a good chunk of the country, “house burping,” in which people open the windows of their homes to let ...

I, too, was skeptical. So I gave it a go for a week. Here's how it went—and whether I've become a believer.

You likely learned from a young age that burping is inconsiderate. There's some truth to that according to the manners rulebook, but continuous burping for hours may be a sign of something deeper. If ...