Find your comfortable temperature as it suits you but if your heating is a forced air system, closing registers can lead to duct leakage and also puts undue stress on your blower motor (which can shorten its useful life). New motors are expensive. Better to keep registers open and lower the temperature setting.

We have always kept the register closed in the bedroom. Why don't you try flannel sheets, they are so warm & will keep you comfortable all winter long.

Can you close the duct instead of the register?

Also, I have some wonderful hand-knit booties that keep my tootsies warm, but not hot, and I sleep so well with them on.

I Just bought my SO a heated matress pad. He is ALWAYS cold, where I am always hot. So it will heat his side of the bed but not mine, unless I want it to. He really loves it. This is the one I bought:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W82BNPT?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

I do agree to just set your whole house temp at the temp you want, and leave the registers open though.

A heated matress pad will get the bed too warm if left on overnight. What DH and I have done is to pre-heat the bed for half an hour before bedtime and then turn it off.

Love my heated mattress pad. I turn it on a few minutes before I go to bed. When my feet are warm I turn it off. I use it all year long too, even in summer because I hate to have cold feet. I think my last one was a Sunbeam, which I had about 4-5 years. It died last year and I had to buy a new one. This time a Serta.

I like my bedroom cold as well so the window is left open all year long....but maybe not quite as much in winter :-)) But always some as I have to have fresh air as well - never any AC!! I have a down comforter so I keep plenty warm enough without any electrical appliances. And having a little furry beast snug up against me doesn't hurt either. 🐶

thanks for all of the suggestions and comments. i would LOVE a down comforter but one of my dogs is a serious nester and while neither is allowed on the bed at night, they often sleep there during the day. i'd be afraid she would "nest" a comforter to death!

i did try a heated mattress pad several years ago but i found it didn't get quite warm enough for me.

i think i've settled on an electric blanket, it'll be my xmas gift to myself. :) maybe some flannel sheets, too. the blanket makes more sense since i can take it to the living room during the day/evenings. i set my thermostat at 65 during the winter months so my whole house stays pretty chilly but i like it that way.

@gardengal48a few friends have suggested my furry friends would keep me warm but 300+ pounds of dogs in a twin bed just doesn't work for me plus frank snores like a freight train! 😂

We're open bedroom window people too. In fact, we've gotten to the point we can feel a little claustrophobic in a room overnight without operational windows. The windows didn't open in the rooms at the nicest hotel closest to my mothers senior apartment. We'd stay a little farther away to have fresh night air 😊

I hate to be cold and don't like cold feet but there is no way I'd leave something on my feet in my sleep, I'd be pulling whatever it was off. Same with those cotton gloves that are supposed to keep heavy duty moisturizers on your hands and off your sheets...I find them on the floor in the morning with no memory of having pulled them off my hands.

I have a year around weight down comforter that I sometimes change for just a lightly quilted piece in summer. If DH has gone to bed early and turned down bedroom heat, I have a couple of microwavable flax seed pillows that I'll take to bed with me - will stay hot about 45 min and by then I'm sound asleep.

We've never used an electric blanket or an electric mattress pad but my mother loved her electric mattress pad. I think the last one I bought her was Beauty Rest from Penney's....maybe in the neighborhood of $75 but could have been on sale (most anything I buy is)

Another cool room / ele blanket sleeper here. We like the winter room temp at 65F and pre-heat the bed with the ele blanket on high, then re-set it to low or off when sleeping. If the outside temp dips below freezing at night we'll set the blanket to a low setting.

I close my downstairs registers in the summer so the ac cools upstairs. I like a cool bedroom so I turn the heat down for the entire house at night.

I don't care to sleep with electric anything so I just pile on the blankets, including a down comforter.

I've slept in flannel sheets the last five years or so but this year I've ditched the top sheet and am using a light-weight fleece blanket as the sheet. It's much warmer--sometimes too warm here, but it might be just right for your climate. It's The Big One from Kohl's.

https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-3453159/the-big-one-fleece-blanket.jsp?skuid=67398611&CID=seo_offers&utm_campaign=SAG&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google&utm_product=67398611

Definately electric MATTRESS PAD! I fall asleep so much faster now-as it is just like when you get a massage and the massage bed is warm and so relaxing. IME, it's not as hot as the electric blankets because the electric blanket also heats your mattress trapping the heat in. To me, the electric mattress pad is the perfect amount because your blankets on top of you more room temp. Hope that makes sense.

eta: I set mine on for 3 hours only. It would be too hot all night long for either blanket or mattress pad.

Do you make a habit of running around the house at night, to need it heated? Turn down the thermostat for the whole place. If you need to make bathroom visits at night, how about a small electric heater in there? If to accomodate pets, how about a heated bed pad?

Flannelette sheets for your bed in winter. I like the idea of a floating electric blanket rather than a mattress pad that gets hammered every hour that you're on it. Turn on the electric blanket a half hour or so before you go to bed, then turn it off, and have a down comforter above the blanket to hold the heat in throughout the night.

If you don't have a programable thermostat, the one whose teeth chatter least due to a minute or so in the cold goes out an hour or so before rising time to turn up the thermostat.

A down-filled, or otherwise fluffy, comforter, inherited from my old step-uncle whose farm this was, has been keeping me snug for the eighteen years that I've been here, so I've never needed to get down the electric blanket from its resting place in the linen closet: maybe I should give it to an agency that I support that helps the homeless.

ole joyful

Electric blanket only. I'll get over-heated sometimes, and want to throw back the blanket. Can't do that with a heated pad.

Just good blankets…..

Love my electric blanket, couldn't live without it!

I never even heard of an electric pad. Trying to envision it and coming up with sushipup’s concern.

We keep the whole house pretty darned cold at night….63 or less. Comes from my childhood in CNY with mother in charge of the thermostat. I have a heated mattress pad that I turn on an hour before I get into bed and turn it off immediately afterwards. Layered cotton quilts keep me cozy and warm all night. My cat has a heated covered bed but he prefers sleeping under the covers with me.

We only have electric mattress pads in Australia (which we call ”electric blankets”). I have one which has a timer function so it heats the bed quickly then turns off after 75 minutes so it doesn’t get too hot once you add in my body heat as well. Otherwise with the untimed ones I just turn it on an hour before bedtime then turn it off as I get into bed.

I just got a heated mattress pad this year. It has a digital control to set the heat levels, a preheat button to warm the bed quickly but shuts off when goal temp is reached, and an automatic shut off after so long (frankly I don't know how long because I have fallen asleep.) I love it. I keep the house cool-verging-on-cold, and sleep with a blanket and a comforter. Once the bed is warmed I am fine for the night.

I'll tell you though, when I was having the shaking chills after my last Covid booster, I was sooo grateful for that mattress pad!

Care to share what you ordered? I’m looking for something for my daughter for her cold room, still deciding between blanket and pad.

AFAIK there's no reason you can't use an electric blanket underneath you. Heat rises! Is there some difference in construction between what's now called a 'blanket' and a 'mattress pad'? I've been using half of a king size electric blanket under the mattress pad for decades.

My DM gave us a split king electric blanket about 45 years ago. DH didn't want the heat, but I kept 'my half'. It has auto shut-off, but I tend to turn it off once I'm cozy. Unfortunately, there's no label left on this. The control says "Made in Canada".

@foodonastump here you go...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C3B73T2V/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

as for laying on top of an electric blanket, it is claimed that doing so could damage the wires. not sure how true that is but if you've been doing it for decades, apparently it isn't so true. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Chisue, I suppose the only difference is that mine is constructed and shaped like a traditional mattress pad, to fit the mattress snugly - so I only need to have just it on the mattress.

chisue, a 45-year old electric blanket? Good lord, that sounds dangerous.

The last time I used an electric blanket, I was probably still in high school. I woke up one night with our Siamese cat pouncing on me in bed.....chasing the electrical sparks that were shooting through the blanket. A quick trip to the garbage with that and I've never used - or wanted - one since!!

I use hot water bottles.

Good luck in finding what you need, ninapearl. Comfortable sleep is key to good health!

I’ve never slept under an electric blanket and just the thought makes me uncomfortable. 🥵

I can’t sleep wearing pyjamas or anything on my feet. I like a large quilt and a cool room. Our thermostat is set to go down to 16.5 C at night and up to 20 C in the day. I don’t close any vents and I find the house to be very comfortable.

I wish you good sleep and happy dreams. 🙂

i'll know soon, it's supposed to be here early next week. it'll be nice to crawl into a warm bed! 🙂

My electric blanket is under a heavy, quilted mattress pad. I weigh 95 lbs., down from 100 lbs., down from 120 lbs. for most of my adult life. I'm less worried about this old blanket than some new products! Because it's beneath the pad, it doesn't get dirty. I've never needed to wash it. It looks like new.

We keep the house at 58° F (~14° C) at night in winter. I have only a down duvet, but it is great (and dog shares bed-LOL).