Electric blanket?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Electric blanket?

I get freaked out by these things as I'm so forgetful.

If I bought one, would buying an electric circuit timer to turn the thing off automatically help?

[lizziegrace]

1. I have one

it has an automatic shutoff after 12 hours. You can't get them all bunched up because they become a fire hazard. Two years with this one and no problems.

[Redstone]

2. Those things'll give you brain cancer.

Redstone

[lizziegrace]

5. Really?

:(

[Redstone]

6. Yes, indeed.

Redstone

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. I cannot use an electric blanket. If I do, even on low, I wake up

about two hours later drenched in sweat because it gets too hot for me. That's ANY electric blanket I've ever tried. So I use extra blankets instead.

[femmocrat]

4. Buy a down comforter instead....

Very light weight and just warm enough. Will keep you toasty without frying you to a crisp!

[u4ic]

7. I like the *last* option

:-)

I've never had an electric blanket, never will. I prefer to be a bit cool when I'm sleeping - being too warm wakes me up.


Don't y'all have something called indoor heating in the US? ;-)

[KitchenWitch]

8. I would happily lend you some of the hormones

that make me wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat.

[LaurenG]

12. That is exactly what I was thinking

I already wake up several times nightly way too hot!

[MonkeyFunk]

9. I had one

that went kaput on me after using it for one year, only slightly. Seriously, probably turned it on fewer than 20 times.

[donheld]

10. I LOVE my electric blanket

I don't think I could live without it. Unless of course I lived in a warm climate.

[Callalily]

11. Oh yeah, I use

one. It's been mighty cold here the last couple of night. I keep my home thermostat quite low, but I want to be nice and toasty in bed!

[Courtesy Flush]

13. My EB has a 10-hour timer built in

It's a pretty good one. I think my wife bought it at Overstock dot com. We have a cheaper one upstairs, and I didn't realize that it DIDN'T have a timer. I discovered it, turned on, three days after we had houseguests. They hadn't even used it, but their ten-year-old, being a ten-year-old, turned it on. It was folded, under the bed, and warm, for three days.

Just get one with a built-in timer.