what is the deal with Snuggies?

My wife bought one.

Advantages:
Long enough to cover me from shoulders to feet (I’m 5’11")
Arm movement to work the remote control or consume food/drink

Disadvantage:
Not practical for anything other than sitting/reclining.

Would I have bought one? No. Does it work for her in the relatively cold basement of our townhouse? Yes. The bathroom is upstairs anyway which is warmer.

Bonus, it came with those little clips for my bra strap. Wait, never mind. :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh christ I missed this the first time through the thread–I Laughed so hard I scared the cat and woke the baby.

they do have these lovely things called bed jackets. they are short robes that are about hip lenth. they close in the front and have pockets.

then they have lap blankets. lovely things that will go from waist to past your feet.

combine the 2 and you are warm, happy, and fashionable.

i do like robes and the combo of robe and blankie (with cats applied) works just fine for me.

Ditto. “Super Herpes”? Comedy gold!

Good thing I’m the only one in the office.

Hence, the question I asked earlier in the thread.

What I liked was the woman struggling to get the small blanket over her entire body-and notice her feet? Um, hello, lady, they have these wonderful new things-they’re called SOCKS. You should try them! (And get a bigger blanket, moron!)

Besides, if these people really are this klutzy, they’ll probably end up setting the sleeves on fire or something like that.)
BTW, what is the difference between regular herpes and SUPER herpes?

You jest, but having suffered the cold and chills of gasteroenteritis and having to “sleep” *on *the cold porcelain toilet due to the frequency and inevitability of bowel movements… I would have loved a Snuggie that night. Or a space heater. Or a bullet to the head.

Add me to the list of those who probably won’t buy one, but would love to receive one. My problem with blankets while lounging is keeping them up on my shoulders. Drives my husband batshit when, at some crucial moment of static filled *Battlestar *dialog, I’m distracting him with my flailing and twisting to relocate the runaway blankets because my shoulders are cold. Seems like the sleeves would solve that.

And I hate robes, and I’m not fond of sweaters (although I wear them all the time.) It’s not just about being warm, it’s about being snuggly. Robes are not snuggly; blankets are snuggly. A robe big enough to be snuggly is a blanket.

It’s false advertising – there are two, count them, two adult males in the commercial, pretending to be happy because they are wearing the product.

No self-respecting male would be caught dead in one of these things, let alone enjoy it.

But thanks to the advetisement, thousands of women will purchase the product for the men in their lives, and the men will then be faced with the age old problem of either having to pretend that they love the gift, or be truthful and by doing so be sent to the doghouse.

A curse on such products and such adverstising.

Silly me - I went and bought a couple of oversized sweatsuits for lounging about the house. They’re comfy, non-restrictive, and with a mere jacket, they’re warm enough if I have to take the dogs out to pee in the cold of the night.

I can surf, knit, watch TV, skritch whichever animal hops in my lap, cuddle with my sweetie, even add an afghan if I want to be super warm.

Plus if I wore them to a game, if I went to games, I wouldn’t feel like a total ass sitting in the stands in my sweats.

Please, don’t give me one of those things. I’ve got plenty of dustrags…

That’s the whole point of ads like these…to make you realize that you need this Uni-Tasker in your home and that you can’t survive without it.

Me, I’m wearing my nice soft robe WITH POCKETS and slippers. I’m quite comfy. In fact, considering the ice-box that is my cube at work, I’m half-thinking about taking my robe to work. Maybe that will get someone’s attention…me walking around in business attire and wearing a hoodie obviously isn’t.

I just saw a headline on the CNN website - over 4 million of those stoopit backwards robes have been sold. Dang - who’d’a thunk it?!?

This is what prompted the OP. I am humble enough to think that four million people might know something I don’t.

Or it might be mass idiocy.

I’m trying to figure it out! :slight_smile:

If these people are so clumsy with regular blankets, wouldn’t they be tripping all over the place with these things?

Yeah, but by that time, the Snuggie people already have the money. :stuck_out_tongue:

But a robe isn’t big/long enough to wrap over your whole self the way a blanket is. Therefore, the robe/blanket combo.