Back in late October, I checked a very funky, very opinionated book of permaculture ideas from the local library—Build a Better World in your Backyard. He opined on all sorts of topics: saving urine for fertilizing plants, rocket stoves to heat the house, living with room-mates and hiring a housecleaner if you all cannot agree on standards of cleanliness. It sat on the bench for several weeks and we dipped into it regularly. It was a fun read.
One of his theories was that you should keep your house pretty chilly and heat the locations where you spend most of your time to save energy. He had invested in a heating pad to rest his feet on under his desk and an incandescent bulb to light his reading space because the heat from the bulb kept him warm as well. Mark quickly picked up on the heating pad for the bed; the author does not heat the bedroom but does a prewarm of the bed each night. Mark has been complaining for years about how cold our bedroom—and the bed—are. He has been known to wrap himself up in enough layers to survive the Alaska backcountry to read for half an hour in before falling asleep and his grumbles have been getting louder this year.
So, when I received not one but two Amazon gift cards, I broke down and ordered a heated mattress pad. It came a few days before Christmas and we put it on the bed when we changed the sheets. I turned it on for about ten minutes before bed and…it is lovely. Relaxing. Comforting. Warm. It may be better than a heated car seat. We are thrilled.
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