I bought an electric blanket through Land's End because they touted it as being more comfortable than any other blanket out there, because the wires are smaller. What they failed to mention is that it took a very long time for this blanket to ever get up to temperature. I was willing to live with that (though not happily), but then one of the two controls failed. My husband offered to switch controls, since he doesn't often even turn the blanket on, but then two weeks later, in the midst of the worst cold Chicago has seen in my memory (-24!), the other control failed, leaving me with a worthless...