When did you last take a hot water bottle to bed?

Question

When did you last take a hot water bottle to bed?

Answer 1

Years ago. I dont use one - instead I have a heat pillow filled with wheat which I gently heat in the microwave - its safer - less risk of burns from metal parts etc on some bottles

Answer 2

i had 1 that you had to put in the microwave for 3 mins and lasted all night last time i even saw it tho was around 2 years ago so then

Answer 3

I have never used a water bottle.

Answer 4

It is 90 degrees--darn hot here with humidity to match.  I need a cold water bottle.

Answer 5

About 35 years ago!

Answer 6

Earlier this year.  I have never lost my love of hot water bottles.  I don't go for the microwavable ones.  I like to stand late at night in the kitchen, pouring hot water from the kettle into a hot water bottle.  I still have one with a knitted cover that my gran gave me.

There's a very moving Alan Bennett monologue with a woman called Doris, and at the end she says 'I wish I was ready for bed.  All washed and in a clean nightie, and the bottle in, all sweet and crisp and clean like when I was little on Baking Night ...'

Answer 7

About 1971.  In the days when houses did not have central heating.

When I was a child, we used to take hot bricks our mother had heated in front of the open fire during the evening, wrap them in newspaper and take them up to bed with us.

I can still remember waking up and stubbing my toes on that cold bloody brick!!

Answer 8

I think it was Christmas time when I was staying at my Nan's house. She has a very old house with no central heating and it can get very cold there during the winter. Theres a gas fire in most rooms but I only had a storage heater in mine and it was freezing. I was on the 6th floor to.

Answer 9

not for a couple years when we had a cold snap......Hubbys so hot! phew!!  he warms the bed up real well

Answer 10

Due to the rise of prices in our cost of living (UK) i'd rather freeze. plus it's bloody summer in the northern hemisphere, i know we have'nt had sun and that but it ain't cold. answer to your question: winter

Answer 11

used a heating pad a few week  back

Answer 12

last winter! ive got one with pink heart on! lol it's lovely and cosy!