Hot water bottles

The Daisy wheel on the hottie is to be found near the top of the hot water bottle and it gives the date it was made ( month and year ) . It is important as you shouldn’t risk using one that is more than about 3 years old as they can perish after that time . I have nursed several scalds on my Burns unit caused by perished hot water bottles . It’s amazing how you can easily buy an old hottie but the ones in Boots usually the year of purchase . I always look for that and won’t buy one with a date that isn’t near to the date of purchase and wouldn’t want to .

I love my hot water bottles. Remind me of my childhood when I had one the had the nursery rhyme hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle on it. Also recall staying with my lovely great Aunty Peg in Motherwell and being given a pottery pig to warm the bed. Also love my heated fleecy throw as my house is not warm.

Electric blanket turned on here, half-an-hour before bedtime and turned off when I get into bed.

Woollen socks if my feet are cold, and during the snowy weather both cats on top of the bedclothes and as often as not, on top of me, too.

On very cold nights my Trubel puss asks politely if she may crawl in between the counterpane and my duvet, then settles down across my knees and we warm each other very nicely.

Socks on and hot water bottle on very cold nights. This year, I’ve even been putting a hot water bottle in the cupboard under the kitchen sink, hoping it helps to avoid frozen pipes!

I need a hot water bottle these cold nights. I was up at 4 am the last two nights and refilled it then. I got back to sleep quickly because I was nice and warm. I don't like electric blankets.

I love a hottie bottle, also this winter I’ve purchased an electrically heated cushion, I LOVE IT !

Does anyone remember those cage like things with an electric bulb inside you put in the bed? We had one when we first got married, no central heating then, it was in the mid sixties. Oh the luxury now of bed socks and electric throws and blankets.

Some very good information in this guide here .......

www.hotwaterbottleshop.co.uk/pages/the-essential-guide-to-keeping-warm-with-a-hot-water-bottle

I’ve got the long one and several other bottles. Always have bed socks on and shawl round my shoulders when sitting up reading.

When I'm working from home (sitting still at a desk for hours on end) I sort a hot water bottle when I'm making my morning tea; then it is on my lap, or behind my back on chilly morning, absolutely lovely.

And snuggled up watching evening TV, keeping my toes warm.

I have 4 or 5 - one long, one curved (shoulders), and a couple of the usual size. Instant warmth.

I've just purchased a curved hot water bottle which fits around my aching shoulders, heat lasts much longer than warm in the microwave heat packs. I too switch to brushed cotton duvet covers from.about October to late spring

I love a hottie for aches and pains but don't sem to need on since I bought a Night Owl duvet. Can't bear bed socks or any thing on my feet when I'm in bed, they sort of stick to the sheet and I get all tangled up. Guess I'm too much of a fidget for them.

I recommend silicone hot water bottles to save the horror of a burst rubber one and especially combined with electric blanket. All rubber has a 'shelf life' and easy to not notice when put away for months at a time.

I have an electric under blanket on the bed, so that my bed is toasty warm when I get into it (no nasty sheet shock), but it's turned off whilst I'm in bed with my bed socks and brushed cotton winter bedding.
I bought a heated throw to snuggle under whilst on the sofa in the evenings - best thing ever 👍.
I've even turned the heating down quite a bit as my heated throw keeps me so warm and comfy I 'heat the human and not the house' (as per Martin Lewis advice).

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Ohhh love love love my hot water bottle. Its quite funny now because the bedroom is upstairs and i need both hands on both banisters to pull myself up the stairs to bed...... so picture the scene ( 😂🤣😅😆) I stand at the bottom of the stairs and catapult the bottle to the top of the stairs...... hahahahaha....

So basically i love my hot water bottle so much. ....

Please be careful that your hot water bottle doesn't burst or split!
Why not put it into shoulder / tote bag whilst you're going upstairs and using both banisters - you'll still be hands free and won't risk a burst bottle or water spilling.

As no man, small children or cats are available as bedwarmers, I use a long hot water bottle with a furry cover and it is lovely; I wrap it round me and it stays warm for a long time. I hang it over my shoulder when I climb the stairs with tablet, (newspaper) book, hot chocolate and whatever else is necessary. Cashmere bed socks are wonderful, but the heels get holes very quickly.

I like anything that keeps me warm. I love the lavender wheat bags you can warm up

Love a hot water bottle and I have just started with bed socks. Couldn't believe the difference they made. I suppose it's logical when you think about it, cold feet make your blood colder and you get chilled. Warm feet keep you warm.

Love a hot water bottle, from any reason just to keep warm or for soothing my tum when I have flare up of IBS, to which I don’t need meds for but just a lie down with a bottle even if for just 20-30 mins or so, or any aches and pains.
This Christmas I received 3 different types of hottie bottle, one was a long thin one which I requested which lies down across the bottom of the bed, nice and warm all night. Cheap & cheerful way to keep warm

Electric blanket here, dual control as MrJ doesn’t get cold, so only my side heated.

Hello and welcome, Avia.
Oooh, I've just changed my bedding from brushed cotton to ordinary cotton. What a change, I definitely need more brushed cotton!
Hot water bottles are my go to, sometimes exchanged with cold water if trying to get over joint pains - hot and cold exchanges help sometimes.
I don't get why about leaving children's socks on for afternoon naps, what's the difference whether on or off?
I sometimes have socks in in bed but can go from one extreme to the other from blocks of ice which shock me if I move and they touch my legs, to being over warm and getting itchy!
I just can't win. But I prefer hot water bottles to electric blankets as I can move them where I want/need them and get nice and cosy!

My friend is my hot water bottle.

Hubby and I LOVE them! We call them huggie-bots! We have 1 each and when only one of us is in bed we have 2!

Also, out little cat loves to snuggle under the duvet with us and rest against them!

The only time I use one is if I have a bad back. Don’t often need them here even though we are in one of the colder parts. The coldest it would get would be about 2C but that is fairly rare. When we went to Denmark we were whinging about how cold it was - 5C in early November.They said it was warmer than usual!! We had to spend the day in a museum, couldn’t cope.

I keep my socks on. Warm feet are an absolute necessity for a decent night's sleep.

I don't trust a bottle filled with hot water so I have a sort of fango pack that I warm up in the microwave.

Are the hot water bottle users looking after their hotties as described in a recent thread we had on the subject? I think I'd better check how often my mud pack needs replacing, too.