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15 January 2010
I am wearing a Snuggie at work→[More:]It's way too cold in here, and has been for months, so I brought in a Snuggie (gift) and am now enrobed in green fleece and more comfortable than any of my coworkers.
It goes well with my white button-down.
WFF man I'd totally hit you up for a hug! Fleece hugs are the BEST! My mother sent me and TheDonF Colombia fleeces and we put them on and hugged and it was like a warm fleece sammich of happy goodness!
I'm hugging you from here! Silly office nonhuggers. hmph!
So... snuggies must have been the most popular holiday gifts this year in places that are not Greece, yes? My mom told me about getting and giving snuggies to/from various family members. And most of them are in Louisiana, so not like the coldest place ever. Except maybe this year. :)
Ha, I now have two worshippers. It feels pretty good! My disciples, don your fleece and hug the crap out of some people! As long as they don't look like the type to file harrassment suits.
I don't know why people don't want my hugs. I showered and everything. I guess it's because they are "doing work" and don't feel like "hugging their coworker." LAME
snuggies must have been the most popular holiday gifts this year
Apparently they were, and I have to eat my hat. The first time I saw one advertised (on daytime TV, as "The Slanket") I snorted and took the firm position "No one is going to buy that." Clearly I underestimated the lengths we are willing to go in order to push 'comfortable' to its natural limits.
Now I want to try one. I can see that it's th perfect thing for frigid New England weekend mornings.
My father-in-law gave me a Snuggie, which was very sweet and silly; I opted out of the draw-a-name holiday exchange, but evidently FIL could not abide the idea that I would go entirely giftless, so he picked out a Snuggie in blue for me. That's really very cute.
I've actually made good use of it: I was up sick and spent the night on the couch, my snuggie wrapped around me.
With my restless shifting and thrashing and the Snuggie's crazy space-age fabric, I have produced a static charge the likes of which you have only dreamed of.
I'm wearing my snuggie backwards, with the slit down the front and the tail wrapped around my feet, which is far more comfortable for me than the other way.
I have also used a Slanket, when we spent the night at a friend's house without sufficient blankets, and I can report: the Slanket is thick and heavy; the Snuggie is lightweight, like a fleecy baby blanket.
Ha, Miko, Elsa... the Slanket! Just was what I was trying to think of - the other blanket-you-wear thingy. Slanket! What a very very bad name! It sounds slimy and ucky and bleh! Bad. Name.
But Snuggie! Sounds cozy! And warm and happy! Who wouldn't want a Snuggie? Everyone wants a snuggie!
Slanket? Aieeeee! Get this alien offa me!!! The Slanket wants to suck my juices and leave me a lifeless husk on a hostile planet! Beam me up, Scottie!
Also, the Slanket hangs out in the bar down by the skeezy bus station, cadging cigarettes and drinking Jack & Diet Coke.
"Slanket" is the skeeziest product name in recent memory. Predictably, in this house, we speak of my Snuggie as a Slanket. Because it sounds skankier Slankier.
See? They could have just called me, asked "should we name this thing a Slanket?" And I would have said, "NO! Name it something nice instead." And they could give me a few thousand dollars for the advice and not come out last in the market despite having a better product.
When will people learn to call me? When?
Anyway, I think I'll introduce a new product for adults. It's exactly like a blanket, except you arrange it in a diamond shape instead of a rectangle, and you wrap yourself up like a spring roll. I'm going to call it the Swaddler.
snuggies must have been the most popular holiday gifts this year
Apparently they were
Not with my mother. I got her one, and she rejected it. I ended up returning it to Wal-Mart, and the lady behind the counter said she had seen lots of them returned.
OMG, that's exactly how I wrapped my Cabbage Patch Kid and other baby-type dolls when I was younger! I had no idea it was a "thing."
And considering that I just snaked my boss' associate's cardigan because I was foolish and wore short sleeves today and the office was STUPID and turned on the air conditioning, I really wish I had a Snuggie right now. Doubt it would fly in the office, but dude! It gets COLD in here.
kodama, ideally fleece is made from plastic bottles and polyester scraps (both oil-products, yes); that is, is used to be upcycled trash. I don't know how much of the fleece on the market today is upcycled, though.
taz, the BurritoBuddy would be AWESOME. I like to have my feet tucked in especially when I have been up sick on the couch all night reading the Fortean Times forum and Lovecraft stories online; we all know that the unspeakable horror goes for your feet first.
I was sent a surprise slanket last year by someone I met on line. She asked us all our favorite colors and I said black, so I got a black slanket (and criticized for picking a boring color.)
Well, it's long: I'm a coupla inches shy of six feet, and the thing drags on the ground when I walk. So when I curl up, it does have a bit of hem to wrap around my feet.
rmless, that is great! I have a leopard print Snuggie. It came in handy when it was freezing cold here.
My parents have Slankets and they are better quality than Snuggies. I tried to buy kid-size Slankets for months but they were sold out. They have Snuggies instead.
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