It's A Snuggie!

What started out as a joke has taken on a life of its own. A little over a year ago, Chris was sitting on the couch with one of his brothers, Mark, and a good friend, Brett Dunham, when the commercial for the Snuggie came on. Mark, having a great sense of humor, being part sarcasm, part whimsical, and part love of the ridiculous, immediately said that he would love to have one of those blankets with sleeves. Chris didn’t think too much about it until a couple of months later when we were walking through the Bed Bath and Beyond and we saw a whole stack of them. I had never heard of them, but Chris quickly filled me in on the absurdity of the idea and he said that it would be funny to get one for the brother who had mentioned wanting one. Unfortunately (or not), Chris couldn’t remember which brother he had discussed them with, but he did have a brother with a birthday coming up who may or may not have been the one. Chris decided that we had to get a Snuggie for his birthday. It wasn’t the correct brother who received the first one, so we had to keep trying. So started the Snuggie giveaway. We got Snuggies for all of Chris’ family members, mostly for birthdays although we did try to mix it up and gave Chris’ mom hers for mother’s day. We even got one for Dunham, who was in on the joke from the beginning. Chris has a large family, so by the time we gave out the last one, there were no surprises, just a lot of laughing. We even found a dog Snuggie. Chris and I didn’t get one for each other, we just sat back and laughed as everyone else opened theirs. I’m not sure who decided that it would be funny to take photos in our Snuggies, but the suggestion was made and one day after our usual family dinner on Sunday, Chris and I were presented with our very own. This last Saturday, we went down to the school, all of us armed with our Snuggies and props and we had our photos take as a family, plus Dunham. If you’ve ever seen a Snuggie box, you will know that there are all kinds of people in their blankets in ridiculous poses, with a book or remote or standing up cheering and things like that to show the versatility of the Snuggie, so we tried to replay images from the box. It was quite the adventure and a great way to cap off the Snuggie experience. Now the only question is, what do we get everyone next year?