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The best thing for me for 2025 is a Costco heated blanket. It is so soft and cozy and rocks my world. We love it so much we got one for my partner, my mother
by randycupertino 10mo ago
The best thing for me for 2025 is a Costco heated blanket. It is so soft and cozy and rocks my world. We love it so much we got one for my partner, my mother in law and my mom and they all love it. Highly, HIGHLY recommend.
https://www.costco.com/p/-/berkshire-life-heated-throw/4000178658 https://www.costco.com/p/-/berkshire-life-heated-throw/40001...
I was very skeptical until my partner plugged it in, turned it on and put it on me and was like holy cow this is amazing.
My best book of 2025 was Dungeon Crawler Carl, the entire serious.
- iancmceachern 10mo agoAlso checkout the Milwaukee heated hoodies!
- snohobro 10mo agoI second Dungeon Crawler Carl. I haven’t been this enthralled with a book series in decades. If you’re looking for a new series, I highly recommend it!
- randycupertino 10mo agoI was skeptical on Dungeon Crawler Carl and resisted reading it for so long and finally people on reddit constantly recommending it wore me down, even though it's not typically a genre I like I gave it a try and am SO GLAD I did, it is fantastic! I love how it looks like dumb, chaotic fun on the surface but the undercurrent and story steadily reveals something much smarter, angrier and emotionally brutal about resistance and survival in an oppressive system. It's a great series!!
- ChadNauseam 10mo agoIf you liked dungeon crawler carl, and like dungeons and dragons (or just like the idea of it), I can highly recommend “worth the candle”. It has a surface level similarity as well as some thematic overlap with dungeon crawler carl. it’s one of the most interesting books I’ve read in a long time.
- apparent 10mo agoThe blanket seems to have been hugged-to-death (pun intended) and is now sold out in all colors.
- leobg 10mo agoNot sure if it’s exactly the same, but here is one on AliExpress for around $20: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQ53PCs https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQ53PCs
- computator 10mo agoThe Costco one uses household current (as can be seen in one of the photos that shows a cord and a plug) and the AliExpress uses USB. I doubt that USB can supply enough power to do more than a trivial amount of heating. USB 3.1 has a max of 15W, and I can't imagine that a $25 blanket is going to use the more sophisticated USB Power Delivery connections where even the cable & charger can cost more than $25. While trying to find the actual power consumption of the Costco model, I found this very useful comment on the Costco site: "The power consumption is not listed anywhere - product packaging, website, or included manual. I went ahead and made the purchase and hooked it up to my battery unit once I got home. I can confirm, the blanket uses an average 99W regardless of which mode it's in. I left it in each mode for about 5 minutes. There's no difference to the touch of the blanket and there's no difference with the power consumption. In other words this blanket has one heat setting and it's not very warm." So disappointing.
- arcanemachiner 10mo agoI have a blanket from the same company, purchased this year, and am quite satisfied with it. Can't speak to the power usage, but levels 1-3 are warm-ish, but level 4 gets nice and toasty.
- V__ 10mo agoBeurer Cozy Heated blankets, for about 50$, are my recommendation. They are really nice.
- darreninthenet 10mo agoAs far as I can tell you can't buy the ebooks for Dungeon Crawler Carl on Kobo, they seem to be exclusive to Kindle... unless anyone knows differently? Otherwise I guess it'll be the seven seas for me which I really don't want to have to do
- UltraSane 10mo agoI'm currently on audio book 4 of dungeon crawler carl. The narrator is amazing. The first time I heard Donut talk I searched for the name of the female narrator only to be surprised that the male narrator is just that good at female voices.
- cpursley 10mo agoWoah, I assumed Donut was a female narrator! My mind is literally blown - well done job Dungeon AI ;)
- UltraSane 10mo agoAudiobooks almost never have more than one narrator for cost reasons. The exception is for the most famous books like Dune where they produce really fancy audio versions with lots of narrators.
- randycupertino 10mo agoWorld War Z the extended cast edition is great with a mixed cast! Also Heft by Liz Moore.
- UltraSane 10mo agoThe Audible version of The Sandman are made like old school radio dramas with a different narrator for every major role and they are absolutely incredible. Must have been very expensive to make.
- StopDisinfo910 10mo agoNo kidding, when did America actually start making original Korean light novels? I somehow entirely missed that trend.
- BeetleB 10mo agoI assume you use it as a throw and not as a blanket for sleeping, right? For sleeping, I have the opposite problem. I always overheat.
- maroonblazer 10mo agoMe too. For that I highly recommend the Tree Napper from Bearaby. https://bearaby.com/collections/weighted-blankets https://bearaby.com/collections/weighted-blankets
- password4321 10mo agoTree Napper aka TENCEL™ per link above if anyone else was left wondering like me. > our Tree Napper is the perfect choice for those that sleep hotter than most. It’s made from Tencel https://bearaby.com/products/tree-napper https://bearaby.com/products/tree-napper
- bigstrat2003 10mo ago> For sleeping, I have the opposite problem. I always overheat. I find that sticking one leg (and sometimes one arm) out from under the blanket helps to solve that issue.
- ajolly 10mo agoI love bed heating/chilling systems (eight sleep, chilipad, etc) Otherwise I'd go to bed and be cold so I'd put a blanket or two on then wake up being too hot kick it off and repeat.
- theothertimcook 10mo agoAnyone talking Dungeon Crawler Carl NEEDS to give the audiobooks a listen, the voice acting is better than anything I’ve ever listened to.
- orliesaurus 10mo agoDo you wear the blanket while you work?