# Blanket with sleeves **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195 "2008-12-01T16:30:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/1 "2008-12-01T16:30:15Z")
So, I’m thinking of getting Mommypants one of those sleeved blankets I’ve seen on tv. Either the [Snuggie](https://www.getsnuggie.com/flare/next?tag=ED%7CSM%7CGO%7CGN%7C) or the [Slanket](http://www.theslanket.com/). Anyone have one of these things? Do you like it? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/2 "2008-12-01T16:36:49Z")
My friend has a few of these at her cottage, along with some pillows with footholes in them. They are comfy and great but they encourage sloth! Also, you tend to walk around in them and they gather dust. Also, the commercial for Snuggie is hilarious– ack, I can’t reach anything with this blanket over me! ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/3 "2008-12-01T16:38:58Z")
My brother has one and he says he loves it. He and his girlfriend fight over who gets to wear it. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/4 "2008-12-01T16:41:51Z")
The people in that Snuggie commercial look oddly like they’re wearing monks’ habits. ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/5 "2008-12-01T17:23:33Z")
I liked the Snuggie until I tried to order one yesterday, and found it would take 4 weeks to deliver. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/6 "2008-12-01T17:27:11Z")
I got a cheap one to wear while I’m working and the snaps came off. ☹ Other than that, it’s nice to have, but a robe will do just as well. It’s the original blanket with sleeves. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/7 "2008-12-01T17:28:44Z")
N/m ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/8 "2008-12-01T17:32:42Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > The people in that Snuggie commercial look oddly like they’re wearing monks’ habits. I love that commercial. It looks like some kind of weird peek into the lives of cult members or wizards. It shows entire families in long robes enjoying a cookout, a sporting event, and other everyday activities. It’s my new favorite commercial. They do look comfy and warm though. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/9 "2008-12-01T17:40:54Z")
I think they look comfie, but I can’t get past the name “Slanket.” It makes me think “skank” for some reason. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/10 "2008-12-01T18:01:41Z")
I figure when my wife isn’t useing it, I can wear it on my back and pretend I’m a Jedi 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/11 "2008-12-01T18:41:54Z")
Get yourself one of these! [http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/miscellaneous/af1b/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/miscellaneous/af1b/) ---
**Author:** ![JaneSaintClair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JaneSaintClair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneSaintClair)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/12 "2008-12-01T19:49:18Z")
I guess I don’t really see the appeal… isn’t it really just an oversized bathrobe? Or maybe a bathrobe put on backwards? And I think that they look like they are made from acrylic fabrics-- like the kind that catch on dry skin and hangnails. But I’m also in love with my comfy, flannel lined, terry-cloth robe. I hardly get out of it in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/13 "2008-12-01T19:59:08Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > I love that commercial. It looks like some kind of weird peek into the lives of cult members or wizards. My girlfriend calls the Snuggie the [Heaven’s Gate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)) robe. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/14 "2008-12-01T21:15:17Z")
There’s no point to buying either of those until they figure out how to make footie pajama feet for them. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/15 "2008-12-01T21:19:45Z")
> [@rhythmonly](#): > > I liked the Snuggie until I tried to order one yesterday, and found it would take 4 weeks to deliver. A couple of weeks ago, my son said he ordered me one, and I couldn’t understand what was taking so long Now I know. Thanks. (Wish he hadn’t done so, though. Those things are super ugly.) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/16 "2008-12-01T23:23:06Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > I love that commercial. It looks like some kind of weird peek into the lives of cult members or wizards. It shows entire families in long robes enjoying a cookout, a sporting event, and other everyday activities. It’s my new favorite commercial. Mine, too! It’s like they are saying, “Hey, people in cults have fun, too! We really are just like the rest of you.” As for wearing one, it doesn’t appeal to me. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/17 "2008-12-01T23:36:41Z")
Upon seeing an ad for one of these, I actually took my shoe off and hit myself over the head with it. I already have a bathrobe and a trenchcoat. Aren’t those the original blanket with sleeves? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/18 "2008-12-01T23:54:27Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Upon seeing an ad for one of these, I actually took my shoe off and hit myself over the head with it. > > I already have a bathrobe and a trenchcoat. Aren’t those the original blanket with sleeves? And you can go naked under a bathrobe! I couldn’t do that with one of these blankets without feeling like I’m defiling it. I mean, people know damn well what horrors lie beneath my robe. Blankets just seem too innocuous. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/19 "2008-12-02T00:33:08Z")
I thought my Mom might like a snuggie for Christmas so I ordered one over a month ago. Last week I got a card in the mail saying that they could not keep up with the orders and if I wanted to cancel I should return the card. If I still wanted a snuggie, I should do nothing. But there was no estimate of delivery. I returned the card. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195/20 "2008-12-02T00:41:54Z")
> [@BarnOwl](#): > > A couple of weeks ago, my son said he ordered me one, and I couldn’t understand what was taking so long Now I know. Thanks. > > (Wish he hadn’t done so, though. Those things are super ugly.) > [@Khadaji](#): > > I thought my Mom might like a snuggie for Christmas so I ordered one over a month ago. Last week I got a card in the mail saying that they could not keep up with the orders and if I wanted to cancel I should return the card. If I still wanted a snuggie, I should do nothing. But there was no estimate of delivery. I returned the card. I don’t think she wanted one, anyway, Khadaji. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blanket-with-sleeves/475195.md?page=2)