To use a ten year old hot water bottle?

[museumum]

Are you all seriously replacing them every two years like the advice says? I honestly couldn’t send one to landfill that often.
I might be pushing it with the one I used tonight that’s marked 2014 - but I don’t use it that often.

This is interesting. I regularly use one that's at least 35 years old as it says on the neck 'made in West Germany'. It appears indestructible, but probably sadly time to replace!

I keep a couple of old ones for summer - fill, freezer, wrap in tea towel and put in bed. Bliss!

Yes, yabu.

the hot water bottle i have given dd says 2012 on it
mine doesnt say anything that i can read although there is a 9
so perhaps that is 2009

i think the 2012 mentioned on the bottle is probably saying it conforms to British Standards BS1970 : 2012

This is putting me off hot water bottles altogether

You are being unreasonable. I had one for years just like you. But the worst thing happened. My hot water bottle exploded and burnt all my breasts and stomach. It was horrendous, and I ended up in A&E. Please don't ignore the advice. It's there for a reason. I'm still scarred to this day.

This is absolutely not true!
When I was a child, many years ago, we had no heating upstairs and ice used to form on the inside of the windows in winter, I had a hot water bottle. My 50 year old came to stay and decided he needed MY hot water bottle. He was a pig and his needs always trumped everyone else’s. He filled it up with very hot water and it burst on him. 😂