This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. For the past month, as the weather has gotten colder, I’ve had a routine I do each night. I’ll put a bit of water in my kettle to make some hot ...

With much of the country battling the worst wintry weather of the season, some of us are reaching for an old-fashioned way of keeping warm – the hot-water bottle. Along with their modern equivalent, ...

As a lifetime hot-water-bottle user, I have waxed poetic about them before, and I am a purist. The vessels should be all-natural rubber. And they should of course be traditionally shaped, like square ...