I tried USB heated gloves as rated by Martin Lewis to ‘heat the human not the home’
09.04.2022 - 10:29
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Earlier this week Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis published a sad but essential guide called ‘heat the human not the home ’. In the guide put together by his team, he shared a number of cost effective ways to keep warm without the need for putting the heating on.
Martin tweeted the guide out to his 1.4 million followers, writing: “I felt sad asking my team to put this together, but my emailbag is full of folk so desperate they can't put the heat on, I wanted to try some help.”
One of the suggestions in the post was using USB gloves to combat soaring energy costs. Though Martin is clear he’s not telling people what to do or that ‘Martin says you should do this’.
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He added: “This is a guide I really wish we needn't be publishing. It's more that we're trying to help provide some options and information for those that may need to drastically cut down on energy usage due to financial desperation and some help for others who may want to do it out of a commitment to green issues.”
The USB heated gloves were one of the cheapest options on the list, with an initial investment of around £5, costing less than 1p an hour to run, and around 4p a week to use, based on being used for five hours a day.
I ordered some Rehomy USB heated mittens from Amazon, which cost slightly more than Martin’s £5 pair, but were one of the cheapest, but best-rated on the marketplace website.
The pair I picked were £9.99 for a grey and black pattern, which had 56 ratings, of which 42 per cent were five stars.
The gloves were really simple to set up. A USB plugs into your laptop, which then splits into two wires each leading to a mitten. Inside the mittens