fluffy2560 wrote:SimCityAT wrote:A electric blanket is really meant to (air) warm the bed in an unused room.
A hot water bottle is cheaper and a safer bet.
My dearly departed mother had an electric blanket she used before she got into bed. Her bedroom wasn't unused but she' was old and suffered from circulation problems. Her hands were always cold. She used to wear gloves sometimes when just sitting watching TV.
IMHO, electric blankets as a concept seems quite dangerous. I bet there are statistics on casualties caused by electric blanket. Electric blanket carnage perhaps.
Those electric blankets scare me too.
We usually shut the gas heater off at night too, never know.
A few years back I did something so stupid that just thinking about how bad it could of been makes my hair stand on end.
I had some oral surgery that morning and then I took some pain pills. Was chilling in my room watching some shows on my laptop and had on a very old electric heater that had belonged to my in-laws, it was not safe because the screen cover was gone.
I wasn't thinking clearly and was feeling rather good with those pills and all.
I got up to go make some hot tea and tossed a blanket over my shoulder, right on top of the heater. Came back in the room a few mins later and there was a small fire in the room. I screamed my poor husband came in and tossed the blanket off the heater and burnt his arm a tiny bit. He got the fire out before the curtains or anything large got on fire. Had a black stain on the wood floor , had to really scrub it off.
I was quickly back in reality after that.
Tossed that heater in the trash that same day.
Talk about a buzz kill...