Where Have All The Snuggies Gone???

You remember Snuggies, right? Those blankets with sleeves? Well maybe they really weren’t a blanket per se. More like an extremely comfortable and very oversized sweatshirt. Well, now that Christmas is over, what happened to them?

Just the past month they were the talk of the Holiday shopping season. Everybody wanted one. They were all over TV, radio and the internet. Businesses, organizations, and even Alternative Rock bands ordered grosses with their logo printed on them for promotional items and marketing. One of my Facebook friends even Photoshopped themselves wearing one and put it up as their profile picture this past month. The world had gone Snuggie crazy.

And now…just one week after Christmas…I am hearing nothing about them. Not a peep. No exclamations of “I got a Snuggie for Christmas!” from family and friends. I didn’t even receive one.

What happened to the Snuggie fad? Did it go the way of the Spirograph, Lite Brite and Chia Pet? Is it because we can’t use them on airplanes after Muhhamed-Bob Flare Pants tried to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his underwear…probably using a Snuggie to hide what he was doing. Apparently, if the latter is the case, the Snuggie isn’t flame-retardant.

Has the Snuggie joined the ranks of other fad gifts? You know, like the Pocket Fisherman, Bubba the Singing Bass on a plaque, bread makers and shiatsu massagers? It didn’t even make any of the top popular Holiday gifts for 2009.

Well, it’s a New Year, and the Holiday gift season is past. Now we have 10 months to come up with the next hot gift idea…that hopefully will truly be a hot gift. And I have begun thinking already of what I could devise and manufacture for next Holiday season that will become the most talked about “must have” Christmas gift for 2010…

…the electric Snuggie!!! Could be even battery operated. And you can download apps onto it…