Josh Hafner

USA TODAY

Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this post misstated Burlington's location. It's in northwestern Vermont.

Journey with me, if you will, to Vermont.

There, in Burlington, off the shores of Lake Champlain, the good folks of People magazine take us into the "modest colonial home" of Bernie Sanders.

In an interview dropping Friday, the 74-year-old welcomes us to sit at a crackling wood stove with his wife, Jane, for a humanizing glimpse of the democratic socialist in an increasingly close battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Fun tid-bits ensue.

Sure, Jeb Bush got early press for losing 30-plus pounds on the Paleo diet. But Bernie's been on the diet trend all along.

(Sanders) does his own grocery shopping and grilling, sticking to a diet of mostly meat and vegetables. "He was Paleo before Paleo was a thing," says Jane's other daughter, Carina Driscoll.

And did you know people pay money for pre-cut firewood? Ha! Not Bernie.

He also chops his own firewood and can be handy around the house – just not, as Jane puts it, "with a lot of attention to aesthetics." He once tacked new screening onto a window frame without cutting away the excess, she recalls, "so we had a window with a tutu. And he said, 'Well, it works!'

And while my closet currently contains as many as 10 sweaters, Sanders thinks that's ridiculous:

Jane jokes to PEOPLE of her minimalist husband, "If Bernie has seven sweaters, that's three too many for him."

That's far too many sweaters! Oh, Bernie!

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