Product Name: TEKNO products Snuggle Me 15-pound Weight Blanket
Model: TEK595
Condition: New
Dimensions: 48" x 72"
Weight: 15lb
Filling: lead-free high density glass beads and polyester wadding
Blanket shell: 100% cotton
Care instructions: dry clean only
What’s in the Box?
1x Weighted Blanket
Here’s a Fun Fact for You
Weighted blankets are said to simulate deep pressure touch (DPT), a type of therapy used to help reduce anxiety and chronic stress. Some studies have shown weighted blankets effectively reduce nighttime cortisol levels (cortisol is a stress hormone, most commonly linked to your fight or flight response). However, studies have not shown whether or not weighted blankets effectively treat the empty void left in your heart by a certain spouse who cheated with a military man–on that dreary day, not long ago.
@tinamarie1974 ouch. Also You’re probably so far out of snuggle range I think I’m not motivated enough to find out. I confine mine to about 1000 miles of the Midwest for the right girl and I don’t think my babys up too 100 miles at the moment. She needs new lifters at best. Or she’s about to die without a total rebuild.
@tinamarie1974 I always assume they are jokes. And you’re kinda cute We are taking digs now? And my 1999 Saturn SL MANUAL was bought In 2004 going into college for $1650 at 100K. . After I lost a Plymouth acclaim I rebuilt in my teens for $500. She’s almost at 240K miles now and 20 years old. I’ve swapped my dad’s 93 transmission in a few years ago. After the known week differential pin cracked the transmission… Idk that she has much left in her. But that has got to be about the cheapest car anyone has ever had. And she’s still not quit
@craigcush I mean we’d just be more delicious oil. Next to our plasticx and pets who ate us. Pretty sure they don’t give a fuck about their fuel source
OK, arm-chair psychologists/sociologists/marketing gurus:
Ref that middle picture in the write-up, Why do pictures showing “contentment” always have a person (usually a pretty and demure female) holding a (warm?) mug with TWO hands?
Why not some macho jock holding a bottle of cold beer with ONE hand – that would signal contentment to me.
@phendrick because you know she’s likely calm, she’s careful (two hands for the hot beverage, and its warmth is comforting), she’s not going to start screaming obscenities at the television, have three more beers and then terrorize her family …
On the other hand, she may have a double Kaluha and coffee in that mug, and have a couple more of those, and pass out in happy hugs from her blanket.
@phendrick, holding something else with one hand spells contentment!! Like a Margarita, or a shot of 101 Wild Turkey, but what did you think I meant?? Oh, That, No, that spell orgasm!!
This is the third thing I’ve bought from meh in the past week. That is a record for sure, but one I’m not exactly proud of. My vmp membership is getting a workout!
@unksol I bought the flashlight gloves from last Tuesday and the ota antenna a day or two later. Hey, I said I wasn’t proud of my choices, which is pretty much Meh’s business model.
I bought this the last time it was on here. I love this blanket more than the $80 one I bought a year ago, and have had no problems with it. Not sure why the Amazon reviewers have bead issues.
For comparison, Costco had a 15# blanket last fall for $70. Note the very small pocket stitching to keep the glass from pooling. Anyone with these from Meh can comment on if the beads shift in the large pockets? Also, Amazon has very similar 15# blankets for $45 (using $5 coupon), so it looks like a $10 savings here at Meh.
@mike808 Was just a Costco and they had something like that again, $70, very small pockets. Also it said it came with a cover that could be removed and washed. Same size 48x72. I can understand taller folks might want it to be longer, same as standard Queen/King bed length, to make to you don’t have that annoying cold windy gap by your feet if you like to pull it up to your chin.
Didn’t look up close for details, like did it say “glass?” Next time there I’ll take a closer look. Anyway it was 2x the price but perhaps may be worth it, depending on the outcome of our glass/plastic and leak/no-leak research. (and cover included).
I was a huge fan of these, until, ironically enough, just tonight, one left hundreds of microscopic glass beads all over my daughter’s bed.
It was the black fuzzy style. We have several of this grey not fuzzy style that haven’t done this yet, so I’m not sure yet whether it’s just the fuzzy material that lets the glass beads sneak out.
I bought 4 of these the last 2 times they were sold and 2 of the 4 are spilling sand-like glass beads everywhere and I cannot find a tear anywhere in it.
On the positive side, it is much nicer than the more expensive ones from Amazon and Costco that I’ve tried (both returned). The size of the pockets is consistent with many down or down alternative-style blankets, and the beads shift a little, but not enough to be bothersome. Have yet to need any cleaning beyond spot cleaning, and no spills.
On the more brutally honest side, both the wife and I wish that it were a smidgen lighter, and it is much warmer than our climate needs during the summer. Smaller bead pocket distribution would also be nice, to minimize the weight shift whenever there is movement.
Overall, it was a good purchase. Treat it well, and hopefully you don’t end up as one of the very few reviewers with a beady mess.
Well, been tempted to try one of these just to see what all the “weighted blanket” thing is all about. Worried about the glass beads stories, though – too many mentions of it to make it just an isolated event.
Speaking of tiny bits of glass – here’s something most people don’t know, but it’s in the ingredients. A LOT of seasoning / spice mixtures have tiny bits of glass mixed in with it. What, in my food? yes, in your food. Also foods that are pre-seasoned with those spice mixtures. Why? Very tiny bits of ground-up glass (aka sand) keep the spices from “caking” so it flows easily. Just look on labels for “silicon dioxide,” you’ll be amazed how many places you find it!
The Amazon description says: “Polypropylene pellets into small pockets sewn into the blanket.” It also says it’s machine washable, but not to dry or iron it as the polypropylene pellets could melt. So, are there are aren’t there glass beads? I’m so confused. I also loved the one reviewer’s idea about buying a duvet cover for it-that solves the to be washed or not be washed conundrum.
Bought this last time for my adult son. Made a zippered cover with ties in the corners out of old sheets. He likes it but sometimes it is hot. I like that the cover can be washed and will catch the beads if they do come out. Inside:
Bought one for home, one for a gift. Also bought a super soft cover for them. (This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KC694CZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Probably a good thing because I have also found some random beads inside the cover. I’ll have to take it outside and see if I can figure out where they’re coming from. At first glance I don’t see any obvious openings. The beads are small - like really, really small so they may simply be working their way out of seamed areas. It makes no sense that they use beads this tiny.
I’ve had no problems with beads yet, but based on what everyone is saying I should expect it to start happening tonight. I sleep with it on a twin bed between a quilt and a top sheet. I do wish the pockets were smaller as beads tend to migrate to the edges.
It’s like someone made a blanket from those lead vests they put on you during x-rays. Which somehow puts you in a coma. This is good and bad: your nap suddenly turns into four hours (bad), but you can actually sleep at night with insomnia (yay).
At six feet tall the blanket is just barely long enough to cover from my toes up to my neck. If you’re taller it might be a little too small for full coverage.
I have a weighted blanket, though prob not this brand. Can confirm: puts you in a coma the second you pull it over yourself.
They sell “cool” versions that don’t insulate very well, so you can use them in summer (and just put your normal blankets on top in winter). I got that variety, and my ex who constantly struggled with hot flashes liked it.
For those who are on the fence about this? I got one and was kind of surprised by how heavy 15lbs actually is. I’m not exactly a weakling per se too but while in bed, it’s surprisingly unwieldy.
Having said that, I do enjoy the comfort cacoon it creates but I perhaps would have been fine with something 5 or more pounds less.
I just kind of expected something more on par with a heavy comforter v. a lead blanket.
Also my gf makes fun of me because her coworker says its for people with mental problems or whatever, haha.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Weighted Blanket
Here’s a Fun Fact for You
Weighted blankets are said to simulate deep pressure touch (DPT), a type of therapy used to help reduce anxiety and chronic stress. Some studies have shown weighted blankets effectively reduce nighttime cortisol levels (cortisol is a stress hormone, most commonly linked to your fight or flight response). However, studies have not shown whether or not weighted blankets effectively treat the empty void left in your heart by a certain spouse who cheated with a military man–on that dreary day, not long ago.
Price Comparison
$62.99 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
We don’t need no stinkin blankets!
@mcemanuel, yeah, they’re refurbished stinky blankets!
wow - Those are heavy, i would say around 15 pounds or so by the looks of it.
@ChosenZero, plus the specs say they’re 15 Lbs!! WOW, great guess!!
@ChosenZero I’d say they’re closer to 240 ounces.
stuffed inside a pillow-case, these are great for pillow-fights…
/giphy killer pillow fight
Why are blankets so heavy in the future, is there a problem with Earth’s gravitational pull?
@jzmacdaddy nice one, Doc
That last pic is going to haunt my dreams tonight. I knew I shouldn’t have stayed up just to see what meh. was offering tonight.
@savvysapphire
Holy crap, you’re right! But I had to look!!
@mcemanuel unethical geneticists, 1 Snuggle Bear please
Snuggle me? Snuggle you!
Mother snuggler!
@UncleVinny Go snuggle yourself!
@mike808 @UncleVinny I guess you can’t without a weighted blanket…
Shedding beads according to Amazon reviews, even before the gentle cycle wash soooo big no
@craigcush Well,when the care instructions say dry clean only, shit like that happens.
@craigcush @jzmacdaddy I’ve never laundered it dry cleaned the one that just tonight shed beads for the first time.
@craigcush i got one for my grandson who has anxiety. He loves it…no problems losing beads.
@Birdwoman I bought one last time and it has been great without any beads shed.
Snuggle me? I don’t even know you, seems a little creepy?!?!?
@tinamarie1974 well if you’d stop saying no… Jk
@unksol some days I think that is the problem, some days I know it is not!
@tinamarie1974 ouch. Also You’re probably so far out of snuggle range I think I’m not motivated enough to find out. I confine mine to about 1000 miles of the Midwest for the right girl
and I don’t think my babys up too 100 miles at the moment. She needs new lifters at best. Or she’s about to die without a total rebuild.
@tinamarie1974 and I would take the car in a flash. I’ve known her for 15 years and all hey buttons
@unksol You always think I am taking personal digs at you. So not the case! What type of car are you rebuilding?
@tinamarie1974 I always assume they are jokes. And you’re kinda cute We are taking digs now? And my 1999 Saturn SL MANUAL was bought In 2004 going into college for $1650 at 100K. . After I lost a Plymouth acclaim I rebuilt in my teens for $500. She’s almost at 240K miles now and 20 years old. I’ve swapped my dad’s 93 transmission in a few years ago. After the known week differential pin cracked the transmission… Idk that she has much left in her. But that has got to be about the cheapest car anyone has ever had. And she’s still not quit
@unksol Sounds like you got your moneys worth out of the vehicle. You may be more thrifty than @mfladd lol
@mfladd @tinamarie1974 how thrifty is he?I can’t keep up with his perversions
And my only girl will live till she’s absolutely not worth sacrificing for parts. I’d rather wear her out first. Or a rod blow through the engine.
Looking for something else but I’d rebuild her if I did and it was practical. Everyone should know how to drive a manual. And they are fun.
@mfladd @unksol he is pretty thrifty!
I will take your word re: manual transmissions. I am not opposed to learning, but have never had the opportunity.
Pass. I enjoy sleeping without being surrounded by glass.
Need more plastic beads in our lives. Archaeologist 1000 years from now will be totally baffled finding this
@craigcush especially since they’re glass beads!
@craigcush I mean we’d just be more delicious oil. Next to our plasticx and pets who ate us. Pretty sure they don’t give a fuck about their fuel source
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I kinda liked mine, different brand, but it got way too hot. It could be 10 degrees outside, and I would still wake up dripping in sweat.
OK, arm-chair psychologists/sociologists/marketing gurus:
Ref that middle picture in the write-up, Why do pictures showing “contentment” always have a person (usually a pretty and demure female) holding a (warm?) mug with TWO hands?
Why not some macho jock holding a bottle of cold beer with ONE hand – that would signal contentment to me.
@phendrick because you know she’s likely calm, she’s careful (two hands for the hot beverage, and its warmth is comforting), she’s not going to start screaming obscenities at the television, have three more beers and then terrorize her family …
On the other hand, she may have a double Kaluha and coffee in that mug, and have a couple more of those, and pass out in happy hugs from her blanket.
@phendrick Cold glasses of beer in both hands = contentment for me…[have not been a macho jock for at least past 3.5 decades though…]
@phendrick, holding something else with one hand spells contentment!! Like a Margarita, or a shot of 101 Wild Turkey, but what did you think I meant?? Oh, That, No, that spell orgasm!!
@phendrick I mean I would guess because using both hands correctly. And warm. Ends in results.
And using one cold hand gets you fired.
You must suck at additioning for your assumed role
Is this supposed to be a future trend, where there is no color? Heavy pass on the ugly glass.
Why $1 more than last time? Is there a higher demand all of a sudden?
Side note the one I bought last time is great and haven’t had a single issue with it yet.
@hcavlnch It doesn’t feel claustrophobic or too heavy?
This is the third thing I’ve bought from meh in the past week. That is a record for sure, but one I’m not exactly proud of. My vmp membership is getting a workout!
@Lister what were the others? They haven’t sold worthwhile shit in years
@unksol I bought the flashlight gloves from last Tuesday and the ota antenna a day or two later. Hey, I said I wasn’t proud of my choices, which is pretty much Meh’s business model.
I bought this the last time it was on here. I love this blanket more than the $80 one I bought a year ago, and have had no problems with it. Not sure why the Amazon reviewers have bead issues.
@DuskShine We have loved ours too, until just tonight we had the bead issue.
For comparison, Costco had a 15# blanket last fall for $70. Note the very small pocket stitching to keep the glass from pooling. Anyone with these from Meh can comment on if the beads shift in the large pockets? Also, Amazon has very similar 15# blankets for $45 (using $5 coupon), so it looks like a $10 savings here at Meh.
@mike808, I imagine smaller pockets would be nicer, but I honestly haven’t noticed any shifting issues with mine.
Also, if someone was curious about this, thanks to Costco’s insanely great return policy, that’d be the place to try it.
@mike808 Was just a Costco and they had something like that again, $70, very small pockets. Also it said it came with a cover that could be removed and washed. Same size 48x72. I can understand taller folks might want it to be longer, same as standard Queen/King bed length, to make to you don’t have that annoying cold windy gap by your feet if you like to pull it up to your chin.
Didn’t look up close for details, like did it say “glass?” Next time there I’ll take a closer look. Anyway it was 2x the price but perhaps may be worth it, depending on the outcome of our glass/plastic and leak/no-leak research. (and cover included).
I was a huge fan of these, until, ironically enough, just tonight, one left hundreds of microscopic glass beads all over my daughter’s bed.
It was the black fuzzy style. We have several of this grey not fuzzy style that haven’t done this yet, so I’m not sure yet whether it’s just the fuzzy material that lets the glass beads sneak out.
I bought 4 of these the last 2 times they were sold and 2 of the 4 are spilling sand-like glass beads everywhere and I cannot find a tear anywhere in it.
I do not recommend these
Bought one last time Meh offered it…
On the positive side, it is much nicer than the more expensive ones from Amazon and Costco that I’ve tried (both returned). The size of the pockets is consistent with many down or down alternative-style blankets, and the beads shift a little, but not enough to be bothersome. Have yet to need any cleaning beyond spot cleaning, and no spills.
On the more brutally honest side, both the wife and I wish that it were a smidgen lighter, and it is much warmer than our climate needs during the summer. Smaller bead pocket distribution would also be nice, to minimize the weight shift whenever there is movement.
Overall, it was a good purchase. Treat it well, and hopefully you don’t end up as one of the very few reviewers with a beady mess.
Several reports of glad beads spilling out. Can’t have that w/ the crawling baby. I really wanted one too.
Pass
Well, been tempted to try one of these just to see what all the “weighted blanket” thing is all about. Worried about the glass beads stories, though – too many mentions of it to make it just an isolated event.
Speaking of tiny bits of glass – here’s something most people don’t know, but it’s in the ingredients. A LOT of seasoning / spice mixtures have tiny bits of glass mixed in with it. What, in my food? yes, in your food. Also foods that are pre-seasoned with those spice mixtures. Why? Very tiny bits of ground-up glass (aka sand) keep the spices from “caking” so it flows easily. Just look on labels for “silicon dioxide,” you’ll be amazed how many places you find it!
@pmarin
@pmarin
Bought one last time, loved it, but then the bead thing started happening. Can’t find any holes, just lots and lots of beads.
The Amazon description says: “Polypropylene pellets into small pockets sewn into the blanket.” It also says it’s machine washable, but not to dry or iron it as the polypropylene pellets could melt. So, are there are aren’t there glass beads? I’m so confused. I also loved the one reviewer’s idea about buying a duvet cover for it-that solves the to be washed or not be washed conundrum.
Bought this last time for my adult son. Made a zippered cover with ties in the corners out of old sheets. He likes it but sometimes it is hot. I like that the cover can be washed and will catch the beads if they do come out. Inside:
Outside at bottom:
@callow I think u have a viable, new product idea. Will see it for sale here next?
@Felyne I do make custom window treatments, bedding, etc. for a living so this is an option but I can’t make it for less than the $18.80 one below.
Bought one for home, one for a gift. Also bought a super soft cover for them. (This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KC694CZ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Probably a good thing because I have also found some random beads inside the cover. I’ll have to take it outside and see if I can figure out where they’re coming from. At first glance I don’t see any obvious openings. The beads are small - like really, really small so they may simply be working their way out of seamed areas. It makes no sense that they use beads this tiny.
@cinoclav Thanks. I’m going to give this cover a try on my bead spilling blanket.
I bought one last time.
I’ve had no problems with beads yet, but based on what everyone is saying I should expect it to start happening tonight. I sleep with it on a twin bed between a quilt and a top sheet. I do wish the pockets were smaller as beads tend to migrate to the edges.
Why are all of these weighted blankets so small? A blanket that can’t simultaneously cover your shoulders and feet is no blanket at all.
Bought one for my son who has some issues relaxing (we’ll leave it at that). He loves it, and it’s helped him a lot.
It’s like someone made a blanket from those lead vests they put on you during x-rays. Which somehow puts you in a coma. This is good and bad: your nap suddenly turns into four hours (bad), but you can actually sleep at night with insomnia (yay).
At six feet tall the blanket is just barely long enough to cover from my toes up to my neck. If you’re taller it might be a little too small for full coverage.
If you have trouble sleeping this is a must-try.
15lb is too light. If you had a 25lb at a decent size (full or better) I might have been interested. Meh.
/giphy arbitrary-sparse-bat
Helping with the christmas shopping!
I have a weighted blanket, though prob not this brand. Can confirm: puts you in a coma the second you pull it over yourself.
They sell “cool” versions that don’t insulate very well, so you can use them in summer (and just put your normal blankets on top in winter). I got that variety, and my ex who constantly struggled with hot flashes liked it.
For those who are on the fence about this? I got one and was kind of surprised by how heavy 15lbs actually is. I’m not exactly a weakling per se too but while in bed, it’s surprisingly unwieldy.
Having said that, I do enjoy the comfort cacoon it creates but I perhaps would have been fine with something 5 or more pounds less.
I just kind of expected something more on par with a heavy comforter v. a lead blanket.
Also my gf makes fun of me because her coworker says its for people with mental problems or whatever, haha.