Can you ask someone in their own home..

Ames

I have an electric throw, I think it was about £20 from Tesco. Have a 10 min burst on a lowish setting and I'm toasty all evening. I don't have heating in my flat so it's great, and a lot more versatile than an electric blanket. It's washable too.

marisco_2

My step mum and I are polar opposites when it comes to what we find a comfortable temperature. To me her home is like a sauna and I feel stifled and come away with a headache. Whilst she says my house feels chilly. Sometimes the level to which people heat their homes has nothing to do with cost and is just down to personal preference. Accept that this is how your friend likes to be and layer up or only meet elsewhere.

Brighton_belle

marisco wrote: »

Accept that this is how your friend likes to be and layer up or only meet elsewhere.

But OP states they already do layer up - they wear the same clothing they would wear outside.

supersaver2

Gigervamp wrote: »

The trouble with layering clothes is that you can only wear so many layers before you can't put your arms down!

I feel the cold and although I layer my clothes in the winter, once my hands get cold, it seeps into my bones and I end up with blue lips. I tried to keep the heating off for as long as possible as we're on oil and it's really expensive, but now that I'm ill, the heating goes on as soon as I'm cold.

Can just picture the OP turning up looking like the Michelin Man with that many layers on!

Alikay

I guess we all have our different priorities. One of mine is a comfortable home, and for me that means warm. Not boiling hot - I don't walk around the house wearing short sleeves in January - but comfortable enough to just wear one jumper or sweatshirt at a time. Maybe I'll pop a fleece top on too, if it's particularly chilly, but I don't like being bundled up in woollies and accept that our gas and electric bills total over £1000 a year.

Some people (MIL is one) seem to think that putting the heating on is a sign of moral depravity and that it's somehow worthy to sit blue-lipped under a pile of coats from November to February . And of course an electric blanket isn't a luxury: At less than £20 to buy and a few pennies to run, it must be the next cheapest way of keeping warm at night after sex

Better_Days

Ames wrote: »

I have an electric throw, I think it was about £20 from Tesco. Have a 10 min burst on a lowish setting and I'm toasty all evening. I don't have heating in my flat so it's great, and a lot more versatile than an electric blanket. It's washable too.

Nooooo!

I only discovered these existed earlier this year when we had all that snow and I had to exert a considerable amount of self control not to buy one as I couldn't afford a throw and an electric blanket.

Now I am browsing Amazon again for heated throws......I must resist.....I must resist

Sod it I'll ask for one for Christmas :rotfl:

balletshoes

Alikay wrote: »

I guess we all have our different priorities. One of mine is a comfortable home, and for me that means warm. Not boiling hot - I don't walk around the house wearing short sleeves in January - but comfortable enough to just wear one jumper or sweatshirt at a time. Maybe I'll pop a fleece top on too, if it's particularly chilly, but I don't like being bundled up in woollies and accept that our gas and electric bills total over £1000 a year.

Some people (MIL is one) seem to think that putting the heating on is a sign of moral depravity and that it's somehow worthy to sit blue-lipped under a pile of coats from November to February .
And of course an electric blanket isn't a luxury: At less than £20 to buy and a few pennies to run, it must be the next cheapest way of keeping warm at night after sex

it is a luxury though, as in its not a necessity . I've never had an electric blanket, my mum has one and she loves hers, but as I quickly warm up in bed if my feet are warm, i'm happier with a hot water bottle, then i kick it out of bed when i'm drifting off to sleep.
In a house or hotel where there is no electric blanket or hot water bottle to hand, if my feet are cold i put some socks on in bed, until i warm up - it doesn't take long.

FBaby

Just to add that it is often around October/November that some homes can be the coldest as people leave it as late as possible to start putting the heating on, especially when some days are warmer than others. Then they accept that it is time to turn it on and they are all warm and cosy for the next three/four months.

Better_Days

balletshoes wrote: »

it is a luxury though, as in its not a necessity . I've never had an electric blanket, my mum has one and she loves hers, but as I quickly warm up in bed if my feet are warm, i'm happier with a hot water bottle, then i kick it out of bed when i'm drifting off to sleep.
In a house or hotel where there is no electric blanket or hot water bottle to hand, if my feet are cold i put some socks on in bed, until i warm up - it doesn't take long.

The thing is balletshoes is that not everyone is able to warm up with just extra layers, but need an external source of heat. I have lain awake most of the night when staying at a friends as I went to bed cold and just couldn't warm up, socks and all!!

I appreciate that it is all very individual though and some are 'hot in bed':):):)

balletshoes

Better_Days wrote: »

The thing is balletshoes is that not everyone is able to warm up with just extra layers, but need an external source of heat. I have lain awake most of the night when staying at a friends as I went to bed cold and just couldn't warm up, socks and all!!

I appreciate that it is all very individual though and some are 'hot in bed':):):)

i totally understand that - and i understand why folk would want an electric blanket or throw, and the heating on at a certain temperature etc. But as other have said too, of course its all down to individual preference, health issues etc etc.