JPY6,480 at BicCamera (Note: You can get the same model at lower price online. Actually my husband told me off for having paid through the nose.)

Despite the recent “Setsuden” craze, I got a new electric appliance: a futon dryer.

It is basically a big hair dryer with a futon-sized bag which will remove dampness from futon and kill unpleasant things living in the futon. Plus, warming the futon with the hot air packed in the bag. 

As well as on futon, futon dryers actually do a good job on bed.

Connect the bag to the hot-air nozzle, then set the bag onto the mattress of your bed,

and cover the bag with the duvet (s).

Turn on.

And after 70minutes (or shorter, depending on the program you choose) your bed is no longer a damp and cold torture, it becomes a warm and fluffy paradise!   

Sinful (taking the power shortage into account), but comfortable…would you call this a “guilty pleasure”?