My HotHands story involves my Little League baseball team. Up here in New England, our baseball season starts in mid-April, when it can still be very chilly. The weather forecast for one of our earlier games was for 38 degrees with a chance of snow flurries. I figured our pitchers would benefit from using HotHands to keep their hands warm. Aluminum bats can get very cold!

Well, we won the game, and HotHands should get some of the credit.
- Jerry, Plymouth, CT

We've all heard the jokes about the women who just can't admit their shoe size. The saying is, "I wear a 5, but a 6 feels so good, that I buy a 7." Well, it's no joke as far as I'm concerned when it comes to hunting boots. I wear a 6 1/2 and a 7 gives me room for insulated socks, so I buy a 7 1/2 so I'm absolutely sure I'll have enough room to include a HotHands foot warmer in each toe.
-Barb, Hillsboro, MO

In the middle of November of last year, here in central Texas we were having a warm spell, so I decided to take a trip on my touring motorcycle to Arkansas. I left Texas at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, the temperature was about 60 degrees. I had a good ride out of Texas and through Oklahoma, but at the end of my trip stopping at the toll booth going into Arkansas the attendant asked me if it wasn't cold on the motorcycle because it was 40 degrees at the time. My answer was 'not that bad'.

I stayed in the border town the weekend. I knew it was going to be cold on my return trip home. So, I went to a department store and bought a dozen or so HotHands. Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. my motorcycle was white with ice. I melted the ice from the seat with hot water. I started the motor to warm up and then I put a HotHands in every pocket I had.

As I went back to the toll booth at the Oklahoma border, the same attendant was on duty. The motorcycle was still white with ice and when I stopped the attendant recognized me and said, "now is it cold?", because the temperature was now 19 degrees.

With HotHands in every pocket, I made it back home a lot easier. Thank you HotHands.
-Ron, Carmine, TX

In Fall 2002, my son and I went salmon fishing in Michigan. I was very concerned that our ability to fish the entire day wading in the cold streams would be too much for my 9 year old, so I dressed him as warmly as practical. I also brought many HotHands-2 hand warmers, as I have used them for deer season for years.

After boating downstream several miles in the pre-dawn darkness, we arrived at our first place to begin casting. My son stepped onto the bank and I turned my back for a moment to gather our rods before I stepped out. I heard the loud, sickening splash of a person falling into water. My son had stepped into the stream thinking it was very shallow, but in fact it was about 2 feet deep there. Fortunately, our guide caught him before he went completely under, but his upper body above his waders was soaked. I believed our day must end, as we had several hours of rowing to get downstream to our pickup point, and I did not think my son could last any longer than that before he was too cold.

But I dried what I could, and placed the regular sized HotHands in several pockets under his waders, and placed extra large HotHands at the front and back of his neck, draping them over his collar. Incredibly, there was enough heat generated that he said he was OK, and wanted to fish. After he caught a 30lb. Salmon, a cold rain began, and I again thought our trip was doomed. However, I kept checking the warmers to see if they remained warm, and monitored my son. He hung in there the entire day, catching more huge fish than he had ever seen. The warmers stayed war for many hours, and saved our trip. Without them, there is no way my son could have the memories he has today from our adventure.

Thanks for your great product!
-Bart and Nathanael, O'Fallon, MO

My son is currently enrolled as midshipman, class of '06, at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Every year the school brings the entire academy on a "mission" to the Army-Navy Football game, a tradition that dates back to the first time the two teams met in 1890.

To say the weather was challenging would be an understatement. Predictions were for bitter cold temperatures, possible snow flurries and wind chill factors. Fully knowing we would be sitting exposed to the harsh elements in Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, we dressed accordingly.

We brought enough"Toasti-Toes" to sufficiently warm our entire family as well as our son, Trevor who had to stand for more than an hour and a half waiting to go out on the field with his classmates for the opening ceremony.

I made it to the end of the first quarter before fleeing my seat in the bleachers. The continuous wind blowing beneath the bleachers had caused numbness in my legs despite layers of clothing.

One place that offered heat was the ladies room.

I entered the room and stood alongside the wall out of the way and watched wide-eyed as the midshipmen (women) and cadets from Army attended to their potentially frost-bitten toes. Because the students were in dress uniform, their shoes were not adequate for the elements. Shiny patent-leather just doesn't cut it for 30 degree weather.

Before the game I had stuffed extra socks in my coat pocket just in case. Felling "guilty" for my warm feet (I had placed a ToastieToes in each of my boots), I offered my extra socks to these suffering girls. You would have thought I was giving out winning million dollar lottery tickets they were so appreciative.

Hours later as we sat in the restaurant celebrating Navy's win, I realized my feet were beginning to "steam". I had neglected to remove your product and they were still cranking out the warmth!

Thank you for keeping my "Mid" and family warm.
-Coleen, Skaneateles, NY