Better than a waterbed!

Dalet · Nov 9, 2012

Not since I had a waterbed did I have the wonderful feeling of crawling into a warm bed.
Not so anymore! I finally talked the better half into allowing me to put an electric blanket on the bed.
She was always worried about being electrocuted with one, but I put it on anyway this year since she is having some health issues and can't stay warm.
Guess what? She makes sure her side of the bed is turned on now and goes and takes off makeup and stuff, then crawls into the nice warm bed. She even brings it up to others about how she can't believe how nice the blanket is.
I am happy that she is happy!

toadady · Nov 9, 2012

I think those have a service life on them. might read and find out, my grandma almost lost her house last winter from a eletric blanket.

Dalet · Nov 9, 2012

(quoted from post at 20:23:16 11/09/12) I think those have a service life on them. might read and find out, my grandma almost lost her house last winter from a eletric blanket.

I bought it new this fall, back in Sept. I'm not worried. You can even wash them.

glennster · Nov 9, 2012

When we were little, my mom made featherthick blankets.
They were stuffed with goose down and seemed like they
were a foot thick. Boy they were toasty warm, even in that
drafty old farmhouse. Now a days tho, my wife is one of those
professional ham key ers. She can some how catch the end of
the blankets and roll herself up , hogging all of em.. Kind of like
the old cans that ham came in,and you needed the little key to
open it.

Dalet · Nov 9, 2012

Thats one of the reasons why I got this blanket. She would roll up in them and usually I don't care, but this time of year I like one leg out, not lying with no blankets.

Since she has accepted the elec blanket, she keeps warm on her own and doesn't steal everything in reach as she sleeps.

Paul from MI · Nov 9, 2012

Not for this old boy!! Give me a nice cold bed to crawl into, I'll warm it up by myself. Tried and electric mattress pad once, always made me wonder who was sleeping here that warmed it up?

Mike (WA) · Nov 9, 2012

Grew up in a drafty old two story house, with no heat (and no insulation) upstairs where our bedrooms were. Got an electric blanket for Christmas when I was about 6- probably the best gift ever! Kind of hard to get out of bed in the morning in winter when there was ice on the inside of the window, though.

In summer, my sisters and I just moved out in the yard, and slept on the lawn in sleeping bags.

Abbeyfield · Nov 10, 2012

Years ago, turned on an old electric blanket to warm the bed, and left the light off. Came back to find the bed twinkling like a Christmas tree. Cut the plug clean off it so it would never be accidentally hooked to electricity again. Now I check them out in a dark room regularly.

Fawteen · Nov 10, 2012

We musta been neighbors. There was one (1) hot air duct upstairs, and it was more of a source of amusement than heat.

Single-glazed windows, and I don't know about insulation but if there was any, it wasn't very effective. Linoleum on the floor and frost on the insides of the window.

One did NOT dawdle when getting out of bed. Get up, get dressed and get downstairs before ya froze yer appendages off.

No electric blanket, but flannel "sheets" and a big quilt. Bed warmed up quick enough and you slept with just your nose sticking out from under the covers.

Never knew any other way, and I still prefer my bedroom below 65º.

Bret4207 · Nov 10, 2012

DO NOT use the electric blankets for babies. Something about the electric field messes with their hearts. Been to a few very sad calls involving babies and electric blankets.

rockyridgefarm · Nov 10, 2012

I'm 6 foot and 220. I run hot, she runs cold (her fingers will turn white, then blue in the winter). I AM my wife's electric blanket. If she threw one of those on the bed, I'd be baked through by morning. Heck, even on a very cold night, I'll have my feet sticking out from under the blanket or they sweat like mad.

I used to work with a fellow (now in his 70's) who remembered sleeping with his clothes in the bed with him when he was a child. He'd wake up and change under the covers. There'd be frost on top of the covers on the coldest mornings

Kyle in KY · Nov 10, 2012

When I was little growing up in Ohio, mom would warm a fire place brick in the oven, wrap it in a towel. That"s what us boys used to get the beds warm.

onefarmer · Nov 10, 2012

Farmerboy.....Sounds like here. I warm her up every night until I get to hot or she can't stand my sweat. Then I sleep in a sheet and she gets the thick comforter.

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