So my dh bought me a slanket.....

[Duritzfan]

as a christmas present .... Not my main Xmas pressie - part of my stocking ...
Am IBU to feel that he sees me as sexless and pretty unattractive ? I'm only 38 FGS!
I have recently had a baby so am very self conscious about my body and whether he sees me as woman or mummy .. But still ...

A SLANKET ?????

Got my slanket last year and love it.

Sometimes me and the DC's fight over it. Nothing better than lying on the sofa wrpped up in my slanket witth a good book.

Ah, that makes sense Bounty. Thanks

i would love one but figured it would be no good for brestfeeding in? could be wrong though.

woodlands perhaps you could cut flaps for your boobs to poke through when bfing. Actually, you could put velcro on them to seal said flaps properly to stop it getting draughty....

Anyway OP, yanbu. I got a slanket from my best friend last Xmas when I got her lush smellies and hotel chocolat goodies; really spent ages on it all and I was gutted when I got a fecking slanket. This year she gote books and no7 makeup and I got her... A couples slanket ....... Touche

Gote?! Got me.

Moondog, mine gets folded and laid across the back of the sofa. I have cushions higher than the back so its out of sight IYSWIM? The other sofa has a HUGE blanket on the back of it, big enough for me and both DCs to snuggle under.

We're most definately a blanket family here. So much so that its been my Christmas present from DS1 for the last two years (last year was a gorgeous thick purple one) and he's only 4 - blankets have obviously made an impression on him

OP, I know how you feel.I received a slanket for my birthday present from DH last year and was gutted. Was eight months post DC2 at the time. Gutted because it was such an asexual present and all I could think was "Is that how you think of me?" I'm sure some of it was hormones, and that he spent time wondering what I would want etc., but psychologically I would rather be thought of as a Chanel no 5 type of wife than a slanket type of wife. I still haven't been able to use it. [Gives self kick up arse and makes mental note to use it.]

If my mum or another relative had bought it, it would have been different.

One thing I do think though, OP, is that bought as part of your Xmas present, and in the conext of the other present you received it probably was something for yoy
to feel warm and snuggly when up at silly o'clock with the baby over the next few months.

Slankets are the inside version of fleeces. Make of that what you will...(no fleeces for me, I'm afraid)

I want a slanket.

DH is pish at buying presents. He sat and played XBox while I bought my pressie from him off the internet. I did make him look at it before I paid though. However he redeemed himself by getting me a lovely pair of wellies so I have forgiven him for being moderately crap.

I would like a Slanket. If you don't like/ want it, send it to me because I would be very happy if I had one for Christmas.

I want a camo one so i can sit in the garden in it on a cooler summers night in disguise. Anyone seen any in the sale? DH refused me one.

count yourself lucky. My DP asked for (and received) a DOUBLE SLANKET from her sister. I said it would have been cheaper just to write me a note saying "we're never having sex again".

Ive got the cheaper brand, called a snuggie.
Im 30years young and I love it

DH bought me a slanket this year. And Lush stuff..and a silver bracelet...and a CD...and perfume. I love all my gifts. OP - you are reading too much into this!

My DH got me some post it notes, a mini whiteboard, some handcream, some lindor chocs and a very small brush to clean my piping bag nozzles....I would much rather all these gifts than something big and expensive that no thought has gone into. He knows that I love all those things (sad but true).
My BFF got me a slanket last year. I laughed at first but OMG, it is great!!!

I'm 37 btw...

Oh thank you all - you have really cheered me up..
For what it's worth I can see why he thought it'd be a good idea - but bless him he just has clearly forgotten just how crazy the post natal period makes me ..

He's deffo a keeper - and for those of you telling me I should shut up and be grateful -I really am .. I do know how lucky I am . .. I will chalk this up to post natal hormones and wear my slanket with pride !

pinkflipflop and fellatio - thanks for making me laugh out loud !
And I made my first discussion of the day - who'd have thought a blanket with sleeves could be responsible for such hilarity

Happy new year all

My DH bought me two bottles of gin :o

I dont fink its a ba thin perse. depens on his genrl recton to you.

well my husband bought me a onesie (adult sized babygrow) as I am always cold

I received no less than 3 slankets this year... one off DP and 2 off friends. We are currently wearing one each and one is in the wash. Brilliant.

What, people really have slankets? They're not just the things advertised on those very long TV infomercials that people look at and guffaw about because they're selling nylon plastic nonsense for 49.99 that will be on sale in the Poundstore shortly?

Fuck me. I had no idea.

I would divorce DH if he bought me a slanket. If we were married in the first place.

dp got me a lime green poncho...and a blender.

stop moaning,you got a handbag too

I don't even know what a Slanket is. Obviously I have now gathered what it is but I have never heard of them.

Hahaha I've just googled it!