the perfect solution to keep me warm at night. . .

So due to my husband being extremely cheap and the fact that I'm trying to do things to help the environment. every year we turn our thermostat down a few temperatures and dressing a little warmer. this year we've got it down to the mid 60's. with me being laid off home everyday I have learned to dress a little warmer and use blankets and I'm good. I'm usually moving around a lot anyways so I seem to stay a little warmer. But...at night time bella & lacey I freeze. JC being warm blooded sweats his ass off at night and here I am right next to him shivering. He mentioned that maybe I should get a heating blanket...I don't know if they make them different these days but when I was younger and we had one growing up they were itchy and scratchy and very uncomfortable. Plus he wouldn't use it so it'd be awkward and only on my side and just not what I had in mind. So I was suffering around today and found this. It's PERFECT! You can heat one side of the bed and not the other. That's great! I can stay all snugly and warm and JC's side can just be normal like always...but there are those nites where JC's back or knee is sore and needs the heating pad..well that's okay too because you can decide which part of your side you want on. upper body...lower body...back... so it's very therapeutic. I'm in LOVE. For a King Size it's about $240. While I can't talk my "cheap" husband into buying it for us I'm sure after Christmas I will be able to start saving money and be able to purchase it to use during the rest of the winter.
Also to help us save money we purchased a wood stove with some of our wedding money. We haven't got it installed yet because we just recently found out there pretty much NO ONE installs them anymore because of the risk of user error and fire. While I have no idea how to use a wood stove my husband does and I don't think it'd really be hard to figure out. So we finally found one place around us that will install it. The only thing is it's the type of place where you call them and they call you back 7 days later. Then JC talks to the guy on Monday and JC says hey we'd like to get this installed this week. The guy says "sure no problem..I'll call you tomorrow." Today is Thursday and still no call. JC even called him two times yesterday and no answer. It's really starting to frustrate us. We really want to get this wood stove installed and ready to go. It's getting colder each day and we want to get it installed before it really starts hitting our wallets. Right now our furnace kicks on a few times a day but like I said we keep it pretty cold in here. Eventually it's going to get so cold outside that the furnace is going to start kicking on more. We don't want that. That's why we bought a wood stove. The frustrating thing is that this guy is the ONLY guy around that will install it. So pretty much were screwed. Hopefully soon it will be installed and will be able to enjoy it. I'm trying to figure out how exactly to set it up also. We've been told by people that we have to have a stove board behind it to protect the wall from the heat. I have searched flicker and seen that in about 90% of the photos no one has a stove board behind it. So I'm hoping that we won't have to do that. I don' t really like the black stove board that has to go under it either. I'd rather have like a stone or brick but I guess it'll do. But I definitely know that I don't want a stove board on the wall behind it if I don't have to. I think it will look much better without it and easier to keep the area clean. I left some messages on the photos that I came across without the stove board behind it asking them how far it had to be away from the wall and why that didn't use a stove board. Hopefully that will help me decide what I'm going to do. I can't wait to get it installed and running. I'm excited to incorporate into my decorating. haha