Hot water bottles

Liz46

Serendipity, you need a cross body bag that is big enough to carry your hot water bottle upstairs. If you can't find one, get a handy friend to make one for you. I'm intending to get something like that as I am having problems with my hip.

Thank you for your suggestion, good idea indeed. I can make 1 on my sewing machine... another lady said about kettle upstairs which is also a brilliant idea.

Thank you....

V3ra

Serendipity22 I have a kettle in my bedroom.
Would that be a safer idea for you, rather than catapulting a full hot water bottle up the stairs? 😳

Ahhhhh good idea 😲
... there is a sink in the other upstairs bedroom so i could fill kettle there ( bathroom downstairs).
Well done... YES that would solve the problem of tossing the bottle. Haaaa honestly the things we have to do !!!!!

Just had a thought of tossing the log at the Highland games. 🤣😅😆
THANK YOU.

I have a memory foam mattress and was advised not to use an electric blanket as it's body heat which moulds it and an electric blanket would confuse! A good excuse to return to hotties!

I like the look of those long hotties but wonder how safe it is to fill them with boiling water.
Someone I know said they use hot water in the bath but surely it wouldn’t be hot enough.

Serendipity22 I have a kettle in my bedroom.
Would that be a safer idea for you, rather than catapulting a full hot water bottle up the stairs? 😳

I have recently bought a long thin one and it is wonderful! It takes almost a whole kettle of water and keeps warm for hours. I would really recommend one!

Avia, welcome to Gransnet! I have been using my hot bottle often lately. It certainly helps to keep my feet warm. So much nicer to get into bed!

I just texted my daughter and said now I bed with two hotties she texted back I ve got 3 🤣🤣🤣

We had a series of electric undeblankets until a couple of years ago when the hassle and cost of sending them in for 'servicing' became an issue. Reverted to hotties....one each and the occasional bedsocks has been great. Sleeping position: 'spoons with one hottie in his back and the other under his bum with me clamped behind him! TMI? Unfortunately we've been snowed up for the past week and 'my' hottie developed a leak. Slept in the lovely Oodie my granddaughter chose for me but woke up too hot. Bought 3 new hotties from Boots & then a local chemist. Very poor quality. Only one has the floral wheel but the date is 2022. Not sure what that means for usage...even Martin Lewis's article on the subject was unclear. The other 2 were made in China and no floral wheel.... Will be very careful tonight.....!

merlotgran

There’s one on my knees as I type.

Two days ago when it was bitterly cold DD called in for a cuppa and a chat after work. She’d had a difficult day and the traffic was bad so she was delighted to see I’d put a hot water bottle and fluffy throw on her chair.

Simple home comforts are the best!

Absolutely.... hear, hear.

My mum used to do it with me and I do it now with my GC.... 🥰

I was given an electric heat pad (like a mini electric blanket) when I moved house and winter was approaching. I gave it a go but how can something be comforting when you can’t cuddle it? 🤫

Primrose53

Has anybody seen those long thin hot water bottles, about 3 ft long and maybe 8” across. A girl in our local shop says she has one and it heats a long strip on her bed before she gets in.

Yes, I have two! One for backup.

Fabulous. I have it on the go all day and night.

Has anybody seen those long thin hot water bottles, about 3 ft long and maybe 8” across. A girl in our local shop says she has one and it heats a long strip on her bed before she gets in.

I couldn’t survive without my fluffy hot water bottle. If my feet are warm then so am I. Really dislike electric blankets, not nearly as comforting. I only discard mine around August, if it’s warm enough. 😀

Even my DD likes them. Would have expected them to be too old school for her.

Avia are you psychic? i was just emailing a friend telling her I took a hot water bottle to bed last night for the first time in about a decade.

Brushed cotton sheets and duvet cover, all seasons duvet 14.5 togs and my hot water bottle. bliss.😴😴

Another big hot water bottle fan here too.
Can't imagine how to get through the winter without them.
And bed socks too. Wear them day and night, except when I go out.

There’s one on my knees as I type.

Two days ago when it was bitterly cold DD called in for a cuppa and a chat after work. She’d had a difficult day and the traffic was bad so she was delighted to see I’d put a hot water bottle and fluffy throw on her chair.

Simple home comforts are the best!

Serendipity, you need a cross body bag that is big enough to carry your hot water bottle upstairs. If you can't find one, get a handy friend to make one for you. I'm intending to get something like that as I am having problems with my hip.

I m the hot water bottle Queen always have two, one top one bottom
I ve got a long bottle, a little fat round one, one that goes round your neck and the one that fits round you body with Velcro as well as ordinary ones
I ve done the chuck up the stairs if my hands are full Serendipity
I use them all the year round for my feet which are always cold even in the summer but two in winter

I love hot water bottles. It takes me back to my childhood getting into a nice warm bed when there was ice on the inside of the windows and we had no central heating. Brr

Despite wearing tights and socks my feet are cold now. I might just go and get my hot water bottle!

Love my hot water bottle, electric blanket beneath me. Hot water bottle on top of me, you really can’t get any better.

Thank goodness for hot water bottles. I am tempted to buy one of those long bottles that you can wrap around you. Perhaps I should buy two; one for the front and one for the back. Mind you that may look a bit peculiar...

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. ....