Words cannot describe how good it feels to wrap yourself into one of these when you’re cold.
I heat my house with just a heatpump but it can’t quite keep up when it gets well below 10 degrees celcius and I’m too cheap to turn on electric radiators. I bought an electric blanket for 22 euros and I just heat that instead. Even just sitting on it makes a huge difference.
Careful. You don’t want to end up with toasted skin syndrome.
This is the real YSK
I had this last year from keeping a really hot water bottle on my lap all day long. It went away after a few months. This winter I upgraded to a electric blanket and no issues so far. I don’t think that the blanket gets hot enough.
Sounds like something a cat would post.
My old man dog loves my heated lap blanket. I set the blanket on low with a timer while I work from home and my dog stretches out on top of it. Without the heated blanket he curls up into a tight little croissant.
I keep my heat set to 60f/15.55c and use heated mattress pads on my bed and couch to make it tolerable. It has been between -7f/-21.7c and 24f/-4.4c this week, and it gets colder, usually mid January.
The cost to increase my heat from those temps to a somewhat more comfortable temp is literally hundreds of us dollars per month in gas (in addition to just getting to those temps from the outside temp), where the heated pads running 24/7 increase my electric bill by only a dollar or two a month (hydroelectric in my case, so hands down better, price difference aside).
The difference in operating costs is insane between heating an airspace and heating a body.
Heated blankets are a bit of a different thing; iirc they get warmer because they are meant to be above you, but could work the same way with that properly taken into consideration. You don’t get the sudden warm most of the time when using them under you, but it does help keep your core temp up. So lovely!
I’ve done this same thing for years and I love it! I splurged a few years ago and got a sunbeam mattress pad that has wifi so I can turn it on before I get into bed.
Thats chilly, mine is at like 21 downstairs 20 upstairs
My furnace has been out for two weeks and I live in Canada. Me and my cats have been living under a heated blanket over the holidays
I prefer hot water bottles but that’s just me.
I know that electric blankets are much safer than they used to be but I have a lot of anxiety related to fire, so just not for me.
I like electric space heaters, but: I bought a cheap Chinese one a few years ago that somehow rewired itself. Like, the “off” setting became “low heat”, “high heat” became “fan” etc. I took it apart to see how the fuck that could possibly happen. The dial switch included a little roller contact that moved over a printed circuit board sort of thing to determine the setting; if the heater got too hot (imagine that!) the switch solder would melt and then re-flow into a different pattern, causing the switch to work completely differently. Just unimaginably hazardous.
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I have a heated mattress pad, because most of the heated blankets use this garbage digital display crap that breaks easily.
YMMV, but the cheap one I bought only lasted two winters before the electric part died, while the more expensive two I bought have lasted five years and counting.
UK folk, Silent Night have a model that you put underneath your bottom bedsheet. I have one in the bed and one on the sofa with a blanket on top and they have been going strong for years if you’re looking for one that will last
US has them too, they’re called electric mattress pads rather than blankets.
Can confirm!
Before I got my place sealed up I had a small one I put under my fitted sheets. That with a hefty regular blanket on top and it could get into the negatives before I was ever even slightly uncomfortable.
I would not want to cover myself in a fire hazard
My understanding is that they used to be a fire hazard a few decades ago, but have improved significantly in safety since. Plus you don’t have to sleep with it on; using it to warm up the sheets before you crawl into bed is often sufficient, depending on your climate. Or you can use it elsewhere in the house, such as on the couch or a reading chair.
If something catches fire it’s probably the cheap plastic controller rather than the blanket itself. I just don’t leave mine plugged in when I dont use it.
I got a heated weighted blanket a couple weeks ago and it’s even better than any electric blanket I’ve ever had.
There are USB ones now, including heated clothing/scarves
Waterbeds are great for temperature regulation. You can set them to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
I use an electric bed heater (goes on top of the mattress, under the sheet) and use it to preheat my bed before I get in. My bedroom doesn’t have any source of heat so it feels so goooood.
I feed my wife Taco Bell and she prewarms the bed for me.
Warmth and an air freshener? What more could someone ask for?
We have those at our cabin. The building I often sleep in is unheated too. Late in the fall, it can get near freezing. It feels crazy to start undressing in a cold cabin, but then when you slip under the blanket, it’s like sliding into a warm pocket. Quite euphoric.
it’s like sliding into a warm pocket. Quite euphoric.
