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.

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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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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