Hotties? Or leccy blankets?

Hot water bottle, radiator off and window open. Never had an electric blanket, but do have several different sized hot water bottles. I take a hottie away if I go on visits or holidays. (obviously not at present time)

I once had a hot water bottle. It burst and I woke up with very cold wet feet. Never again. I have an electric under blanket. It warms my bed before I get into it. I live on a narrow boat and do not have central heating...just a multifuel burner in saloon. I love my electric blanket

How do you fill the long HWBs? They look like a safety nightmare to me!

Hot water bottles for me. I was born and raised in an urban terraced house with limited heating (and no heating upstairs at all), no electric sockets, no running hot-water, no bathroom, and only an outside toilet. But our mum always made sure we were warm in bed with our HWBs.

My friend sent me my first electric blanket for my 60ieth birthday, fantastic!

I put it on the top setting, 3, and turn it off when I get in. I was frightened of them for years as my Mum had an awful pink thing with dangerous looking cables.

Have you seen the new 'long' hot water bottles? I'm not sure about them.

I love that card, @MawB2 !
I’ve bought it for several people.

I love our electric blanket (an under blanket, usually switched off not long after getting into bed) but do also have a hot water bottle for aches and pains or just extra comfort for anyone under the weather.

Unless it’s really freezing - very rare here - I do have to have the bedroom window open, though.

BlueBelle
Twiglet I too like a cool bedroom but warm bed. Bliss!
Ladies I can now tell DH I’m not weird after all!

Two for me too cornergran one in the small of my back and one for my ever cold feet
I remember when I was young going to see South Pacific with my Nan at the local cinema and we both had a hot water bottle under our coats

leccie blanket for me, switch it on half hour before bed and off when I get under the duvet!

I like a hot water bottle, though I did have an electric blanket as a child. The bottle goes against the small of my back and my dog nestles against it, on top of the duvet but snuggled under her fleece blanket. I prefer a cool bedroom - window ajar, and usually no heating - but like to be warm in bed, with flannelette sheets, warm pyjamas, and socks when necessary!

My daughter was a big fan of the hottie.
I'd often find her with it stuffed down the back of her trousers if she was in pain..
She always really appreciated anything warming.

Have used both and live in Scotland. Electric blanket is easier but you can't cuddle it and it does not ease period pains (surprised no one has mentioned this - maybe we are all too old!) and is more difficult to use if you feel poorly and are cuddled up on the couch!

MayBee70 you just reminded me, I have a smaller hottie with an Arun cover that I wear under my coat for watching outdoor sporting events. Our grandchildren are all sporty, so we have a lot of teams to support. (This hottie has also, in inclement weather, graced cricket matches). Fellow supporters must assume that I am particularly well endowed! I forgot about it, since because of the virus, it has been hors de combat since February.

My hottie isn’t just for bedtime. I carry it around with me throughout the day, too.

Hot water bottles for me with cuddly covers. Two when it’s very cold, one for my back the other for my feet. Stone hot water bottles as a child in a house with just one heated room, usually wrapped in a towel it kept me beautifully warm. We still have one stone bottle from Ma in Laws home, can’t part with it.

In East Fife I felt the cold in those stone houses. One fireplace in use downstairs and one was lit in my bedroom once when I was very unwell.

Stone hot water bottles, cannot remember when the rubber ones appeared.

As an adult, I tried electric blankets but I also thought the bed would be on fire any time soon and also when a cat arrived, I had visions of the blanket getting scratched so back to my lovely hot water bottle with a spare in case this one leaks.

15 tog duvet, memory foam mattress- I only really get up to feed the cat!

Menopause windows wide open hence sleeping part of the night in a separate room from my DH !

BlueSky and *BlueBelle!

How marvellous that you share my idiosyncrasy!

I shall tell my family that I'm not the only one after all ;-)

Really this subject is almost like a slice of social history.

My grandmother’s home had really pretty fireplaces in all four bedrooms. Long before I was born gas fires with white mantles(?) had been put in to replace the small open fires, these had been, and were continued to be supplemented by stone hot water bottles.

During the war when the mantles cracked it was difficult to find replacements, so the gas fires were removed. At this point I remember Aladdin paraffin lamps being carried up to bedrooms each evening, together with rubber hot water bottles which replaced the stone ones.

In the early 50s central heating came along together with small heated pads, to be followed later by electric blankets.

Up to the present day, now in our home we rely on central heating, blankets and the return of the hottie for localised aches and pains and for comfort. ( My husband and I were attempting a couple of years ago to buy a dual control blanket, when a mystified assistant said that she didn’t see how it would work, as what would happen if you both used your control at the same time!!!!!).

Nighttime comfort seems to have been a priority in our family genes for over 100 years.

Another’s Scot brought up with no central heating. If needed I have a hot water bottle but that is very very rare. Always have a window open and no heating in bedroom.

Me too NotaGran55 window open all year round, quite often I get too hot even in colder weather and have to take the duvet off.

Living in an old house in Edinburgh as a child, hot water bottles or electric blankets were unimaginable luxuries! Breaking the ice on the inside of the windows by breathing on it at least gave us enough light to get dressed

Living in an 18th C stone cottage in the Borders my hotty was an essential and when electric blankets came along - heaven sent! Even before we had leccy blankets though I remember my father having a heated pad which he used when his back was particularly bad.
And like Gwenisgreat it was a case of a coal fire downstairs and the occasional use of a one or two bar fire for10 minutes in the bedroom!
We were hardy in those days!

Hot water bottle for me! And it’s still warm in the morning.

My precious hottie bottles both my daughters are hot water bottle fans too isn’t it funny
bluesky * oppsmininty* oh you ve just made me feel so normal I ve always thought I was a freak as I have one all the year round and only this year August I was at my eldest daughters when she filled hers I never knew she did too

I am thrilled to know I m not off the scale in strangeness thank you

My electric blanket is on for 10 mins but off once I get in, just takes the chill off.