My space bags work great. My coworker has even had luck using garbage bags as space bags. I think you got a bad batch.
I purchased my space bags at wally world and so far they’re doing fine. I use them for the bedding for the futon in the guest room. I’ve emptied and reused them half a dozen times with no problems.
Maybe I just got lucky.
Oh.My.God., that stuff is EVIL!
Kids saw it on TV; we dumbassedly ordered it. What the commercials don’t show is that the stuff is a sticky bastard and gets all over everything it touches.
Space bags…They’ve worked for us…the key is that some bags are duds. We find them on sale at Dept. stores, etc. so that isn’t a big problem.
Mr. Ham has insisted cryptically that “the space bags will work when I’m through with them”. I’m not sure what this is going to involve, but I’m going away for the weekend just in case.
Nah, they’ll work when you abandon three-dimensional thinking, like Klein bottles.
Better yet: Put the Floam in the Space Bag and see what happens.
Actually, we’ve got a couple of space bags and so far they’ve worked OK, though they don’t do such a great job on a Hudson Bay wool blanket - too much structural integrity on the part of the blanket.
I used some Space Bags to pack a bunch of stuff in a plastic storage bin. Said bin then went up on a shelf in the garage. Bin full of framed photos then went up on top of first bin. One of the Space bags failed and reexpanded. Bin full of framed photos came crashing down onto cement garage floor.
Not to mention that the stuff literally stinks. Not as bad as liquefied corses or gangrene, but bad enough. After MilliCal played with her cousins’ FLOAM we were in no danger of her ever requesting it again.
We’ve had dismal results with the space bags also.
But, they do have one good point. Even if the seal leaks and the bag’s contents expand back to normal size, they’re still in a bag, staying dust-free.
Heh. I just spent a little time at that website. I was amused at the number of people saying “Kevin Trudeau LIED to me!!!” Yeah, and water is wet.
Are you trying to tell me that I can’t lose 15 pounds a week eating nothing but chocolate?
-Joe
Now, if they were selling a space bag of holding, that would be a whole different story.
My parents have them. Never had a problem.
I think they’re creepy.
Well, tiny, I’ve got ten bucks, an address, and a fedex number. I’ll be happy to take those extra blankets off your hands and out of the coffin. 
I am a whore for blankets. I don’t know why, I don’t know when it happened, but I can’t get enough blankets in my house.
But this also reminds me…
[hijack] If you have a good shop vac, you can remove dust and just the regular grimies that blankets, couch cushions, etc. pick up over time. Stick the offending item in an extra large garbage bag, the stronger the better. Suck the air out with the shop vac until you have cusion jerkyTM, pillow jerkyTM, or blanket jerkyTM. Unhook the vaccum, reposition the item, and re-suck. Do this three or four times. You’d be agog…AGOG I tell you at the amount of dust, mites, or just plain gross shit that comes out of your stuff.[/hijack]
If it’s any help, I used a Dyson to suck the air out. Maybe that made the difference. 