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Make a Heating Pad for Next to Nothing
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 11:30 PM on December 18, 2007
Whether you're trying to keep warm or dull aches and pains, a heating pad can offer some soothing relief. Before you head to the store, open your dresser and cupboard, and you might find everything you need to make one yourself. All it takes is two pieces of cloth (or an old sock), any of a number of grains such as rice, oatmeal, or flax seed, and a tiny bit of sewing or cutting. The TipNut blog includes a number of ingredients you can throw in to make your DIY heating pad into a headache reliever or a fragrant relaxing helper. For someone just getting into the shoveling routine again, this sounds worth having on hand.
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Nicki
Posted 9:46 AM 18/12/07
My mother used to make these with uncooked rice, a men's tube sock, and dried peppermint or lavender. You fill with dry ingredients and tie off the sock securely with a rubber band, followed by a decorative ribbon. They made lovely 'quickie' Christmas gifts!
Nicki
DoxDox
Posted 9:00 AM 18/12/07
These can be wonderful, but take care, they can get very hot -- a lesson I learned the hard way -- painful blisters on my back. More my stupidity than a "danger" but beware.
DoxDox
Deprong Mori
Posted 8:44 AM 18/12/07
Note that these things generate a scent that some people don't care for so if you're going to use one, it would be polite to make sure the people around you don't mind the aroma.
Deprong Mori