I work a retail job for a big chain company. I also answer the phones for a couple hours so when customers call, I help
them. I got too many calls during this holiday season to see if we had certain items in stock. The two most popular? Air Pods and weighted blankets. We sold out of those at 7 am on Black Friday and barely got them restocked. Both of them. (By the way, if you want the most popular items of the season, don’t wait until Christmas Eve. That’s just me, though.)
My
younger brother’s birthday is December 1st and just like me, he deals with some anxiety. My mother decided to get him a weighted blanket, because what the blanket does is puts weight on top of you to make
it feel comforting and it’s suppose to be a soothing effect to calm anxiety. The blanket is filled with tiny crystal balls to make it heavy. You’re suppose to get a blanket that weighs 10% of your body weight so
my mom got my brother a 20 pound blanket. She also didn’t get it from my work because we were, like I said, sold out. She got it on Amazon. (Oh! And just a tip if your going to buy one, buy a duvet cover to go over it
because you can’t wash the actual
blanket!!)
My brother was excited to get it and my mom was even more excited for him to use it.
I decided to ask my
brother the other day if I can borrow the blanket to maybe try and write a review on it. To see if I, MYSELF, like the blanket. I know they’re kind of expensive, so I promised him I would take good care of it and I would
bring it back when I was done. So after a night out with a friend, when I got home, I dragged the 20 pound blanket to my room and tried to go to sleep.
First
thing I found out, it doesn’t really keep out the cold too well. I had to use other blankets because where I live, I need them. I kind of just laid there, adjusting to the feeling of this heavy thing covering me. I eventually went to sleep but had a restless night.
(Here's a bad picture of me with the blanket on top)
During the night I had to adjust the blanket of off me because it’s hard to explain, but it was just kind of...too much. I woke up again later and
put it back on. I don’t know if it was too heavy, even though me and my brother were the same weight pretty much, but I woke up in the morning and I didn’t have the best night. I sat in my bed and realized that
I was used to the heaviness by now but it really didn’t help me sleep one bit.
I do have to say, both my brother’s and my
anxiety usually happens in the day, not at night. I know many people who wake up at 2 am with anxiety attacks and maybe this blanket will help them better than it helped me. But as for my personal review, I think the weighted
blanket isn’t worth the price. My brother enjoys it now that’s he’s had it for a while and I just hope that it helps other people feel a sense of calmness because it didn’t really work for me.
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