Storing hot water bottles

strawberrypud

Being OS I take a couple of hot water bottles to bed most nights now and I was wondering the best way to store them when not in use.... lid in or out?

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red_devil

lid out sometimes i forget it and leave it in the bed though.

adelight

Mine just sits in bed until I fill it up again, is that bad for it?

taurusgb

Haven't used them for years as last time I had any the instructions were quite clear that they should be stored upside down with stopper out to drain so that the rubber didn't perish.

As I couldn't bear the thought of looking at the blasted things everytime I went in the bathroom, we have done without them but my oldest DD (who is far more sensible than I am) pointed out that at £1 each from poundland would it really be a great loss if they had to be replaced every couple of years....So we now have some, love them to bits and they are emptied in the mornings, stopper replaced and hidden under the pillows until refilling time at night.

Nile

strawberrypud wrote: »

Being OS I take a couple of hot water bottles to bed most nights now and I was wondering the best way to store them when not in use.... lid in or out?

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Store them empty with the stopper removed.;)

I'm a fan of hot water bottles. Those wheat bags you heat in the microwave oven only keep warm for an hour or two at the most, whereas a hot water bottle keeps hot all through the night.

My hot water bottle has a Tigger:D cover on it..............I bought it in Matalan last year.

Doingmybest2bgoodhurrah

I adore my hot water bottles & rake them out every winter.

I store mine under the kitchen sink with the stoppers out. Mine have a little hole at the bottom, so at the end of the winter, when putting them away to hibernate for the summer, I thread a piece of string through the hole & tie the stoppers on. This is for no other reason than I am paranoid about losing the stoppers come next winter time! That would be a catastrophy in this house!

Oh, & I always store them upside down, just so I can rest easy in my mind that no spiders will crawl in & not be able to get out again.

My nan & grandad used to hang theirs up on a hook, upside down via the aforementioned hole, on a hook in a kitchen cupboard x

beachbaby_2

Mine get stored on top of the microwave, stoppers in and have been ok for 11 years.

pollys

Stoppers in (lightly) and stored under the sink. My parents used to tie the stopper to the bottle with a bit of string, another poster mentioning this brought back a cosy memory. Tucked up in bed with lots of proper blankets, pyjamas and dressing gown on till you got too hot and took it off. Ice on the inside of the windows and breathing on it to see through in the morning.

Pollys x

katholicos

One of ours is donkeys years old, i keep the stoppers in as have lost them in the past when i have removed them to store between uses.