Have you ever had an allergy to any laundry detergent?

[mark_wpduet]

I found something called "toasted skin syndrome" .. that's so crazy

It's mostly better... I haven't even itched it days...

I'm starting to think it was the material from the actual pad.. I don't think it was toasted skin syndrome

by the way, I did take Benadryl when I was itching. I knew to do that.

Since I thoroughly washed it... this winter when I'm freezing I may get it out again... they feel so good when the house is cold. I know I could buy one of those heated wraps.. I have an electric blanket too. I just have always had much better luck with heating pads lasting much longer than electric blankets... the last heating pad I had lasted 10 years with a lot of use...

We keep our house 64 F in the winter LOL

 

[tomturbomatic]

Why do you keep your house so cold? Aren't you the most important person who lives there and isn't your comfort paramount? That is my attitude.

 

[askolover]

64!? Oh heck no, I couldn't handle that. We keep ours on 72 in winter and that's a chilly compromise as I always kept it on 74 til Tony started andropause having hot flashes.  I absolutely forbid him to go colder than 72. He just has to take off some layers if he's too hot. I too use a heating pad in winter like heated seats in the car. I even got us a heated toilet seat (it's awesome).

 

[panasonicvac]

You're definitely not the only one here Mark. I don't turn on the furnace near my bedroom during the winter, the other two we do turn on for the rest of the house. The cold just simply helps make me sleep better especially with the heating pad on if it gets too cold for me, I like wearing sweats and sweaters inside in the cold, and the cold helps keep dust mites of reproducing.

 

[askolover]

I like sleeping in a cold room snuggled under nice quilts.. But I have a waterbed so it is heated nicely. My bedroom vent is the second one right off the main furnace duct so it gets a little stuffy in there in the winter so I have a tendency to partially close that vent when the heat is being used.

 

[norgeway]

I have

My neighbor was using pods from Costco, Kirkland i believe, She gave me some to try, i broke out all over with a horrible rash, I had to go to the doctor and get a Kenelog shot, Four days later I had a detached retina in one eye and a torn one in the other, I really dont think the reaction did that but who knows, I only use All free and clear now.

 

[launderess]

"Why do you keep your house so cold?"

Speaking for myself, and I am unanimous, sleeping in cool or cold is best way to go.

Studies have proven it is better to sleep in a cool or even cold room (provided proper bedclothes are provided) than a warm, hot or even over heated one.

Give me a chilly bedroom and nice eiderdown or series of blankets or quilts and will sleep like a log.

Idea of sleeping in a hot or even warm room is a relatively new thing, largely brought about by automatic heating.

Back in days of solid fueled boilers (including back boilers) or furnaces most homes, apartment buildings, hotels and pretty much everyone else "banked" fires for night. This both saved fuel but more importantly given lack of safety devices prevented a fire from starting overnight.

Someone had to wake up in a cold house or whatever, go downstairs or where ever boiler/furnace was located (or controls) and get fire going again so place would get heat.

Above assumed a place had central heating. If relying on fireplaces there wasn't heat in morning until someone got up and built up the fire.

Our grandparents were firmly old school, boiler was turned *OFF* at night. Needless to say oneself, siblings and cousins did our best to avoid sleeping over anytime during cool or cold weather.

Parents believed sort of same in that heat was turned down late evening/before house retired for night. All beds had lots of blankets and quilts so we kids never were bothered. Which ever parent was up first would turn up the thermostat so by time we kids were getting up house began to warm.

In dead of winter have valves closed to rads and window slightly open in bedroom.

 

[launderess]

Another thing

Ones friends from Europe are always amazed at how "warm" Americans keep their homes in winter. Same for hotels and other lodging. They're also amazed at how "cold" indoor temps are during summer thanks to AC set to near artic temps.

Suppose fact USA has abundant natural resources of coal, petrol, natural gas and so on with energy rates on average lower than much of Europe factors into things.

You watch Britcoms and notice even with central heating people are wearing sweaters and perhaps other thicker clothing indoors. There are reasons for that....

 

[mark_wpduet]

Yes! That's the word I was looking for... "Stuffy"

When we have cold snaps with temps that get to near zero or below, regardless of the heat being on 64, it's almost always on trying to keep the temp at 64... and Wow... it's so uncomfortable with that heat constantly going trying to keep it warm... even though it's keeping the temp at 64... the house feels warmer and more stuffy because the heat is constantly running..but there's NOTHING you can do... no matter how low you turn it, it's going to run at those temps

I would rather be in a cool room with nice warm comfortable clothes than in a warm stuffy room... It's almost like euphoria on a super cold day and it being cool in the house, to get my snuggie and bundle up in it and lay up against a heating pad.. although now I'm not so sure about that...but I'm gonna try it again next time I get cold to see if the same thing happens.

I think this is how I justify my arctic AC in the summer... by doing the totally OPPOSITE thing in the winter. LOL... so maybe it evens out

FYI - it's definitely NOT the detergent... I'm pretty comfortable in saying that at this point because I've been wearing clothes washed in that new detergent for the past week and no itching or breaking out at all...

I know I washed that sunbeam plush heating pad...I wonder if it was the material itself causing me to itch or the fact that something could have been on it that needed washed off? Who knows... I guess I'll find out... but I REALLLLY don't wanna go through that again!

 

[norgeway]

Heat and AC temps

68 here winter and summer, I could live without heat much quicker than i could air conditioning.