Wash It Often: Customer Stories and Bag Care
Jerry,
The only testimonial you need is from your customers like me. In 2006, 3 others and I were planning an unguided caribou hunt out of Kotzebue Alaska. I researched the best sleeping bags available and yours were at the top of the list. I had your custom make 4 Antarctic mummy bags with 100-inch length. All 4 of us absolutely loved your bags and our outfitter commented that we bought the best.
I used to believe that down bags were the best. Hence in my rookie days I ordered a down bag, the best he had. The brass zipper gave me fits from day one. It’s very heavy, bulky and doesn’t loft up well after being compressed. Your bags are so much different.
I gave my grandson one of your ultra-light bags for Christmas. He went camping with 3 buddies and they froze all night in their bags, my grandson said he was toasty while they were all complaining.
We, the consumers, are your best advertisers, we seek out what works and we seek out the best!
You, Sir, do the best and they WORK!
You are to be congratulated.
Rodger Connor
Kentucky
THANK YOU ROGER
I’ve got an ultra-light I bought in 1997. 29 years and going strong. I’ve laundered it countless times, after every use. What an awesome bag.
Best Regards,
Don Kinser
THANK YOU, DON,
Getting responses from customers is a constant increase to my knowledge of how they use their sleeping bags.
And of course, I enjoy sharing their stories as well with my readers.
One of the things I really enjoy is when someone like Don states that he has been laundering his bag “countless” times. I have said from Wiggy’s beginnings “when you buy a Wiggy bag you should launder it often when it is getting lots of use.
There are times as owner of a Wiggy bag says it is after 15 years of use it is not as lofty. I ask if it has been laundered as the answer is no, I then tell them to launder it and dry it in the dryer two or three times. They told me they didn’t know it could be laundered. I never hear from them again. My suspicion is they did what I told them to do to find their bag lofted again.
Wiggy bags are vacuum packed by us to supply these bags as well as the survival suit, I make for the Airforce under 20 tons of pressure and when taken out of the blister packaging the loft begins to return.
Years ago before I was a manufacturer I noted that the down bag manufacturers gave a large storage bag with their down bags. Why? Because, as they said, you didn’t want to store the bag in the stuff sack which would damage the down. When these same manufacturers started making their Polar Guard bags, again they gave a large storage bag with the sleeping bag for the same reason, not wanting to damage the Polar Guard. And here I am vacuum packing sleeping bags made with continuous filament fiber, the same fiber that Polar Guard was made from.
Today Wiggy’s Inc. stands alone as the only company that uses continuous filament fiber to make Lamilite.