the current sale

THE CURRENT SALE

The current sale was slated to end at the end of Labor Day weekend, but I have changed my mind about that. I am continuing the sale until the end of the year, why? because it has been exceptionally successful. The number of new customers that we have received from people who have told me they have long wanted a Wiggy bag can now afford one. There must be many more out there. I have also taken inventory of the first quality materials that I have recently purchased at extremely low prices are making it possible to sell our sleeping bags for these prices. I have been comparison shopping and I see the variety of no sleep sleeping bags that are more costly being offered at 15% to 40% off. They are mostly polyester filled bags, there are some down filled as well. Let me in form those who are not knowledge of the differences of the chopped staple fiber that is exclusively use for insulation in these no sleep sleeping bags. The chopped fiber has to be quilted and the quilt stitching lines are cold spots. The quilting causes the fibers to bunch up which reduces the original loft. It also causes the fibers to bunch tight so any moisture is trapped. 

This trapped moisture adds to the problem of keeping warm. Here is some of a report from “Journet to the Top of the World” that took place in 1986. Will Steger and 5 others traveled from Wards Island to the North Pole and they reached the North Pole on May 1, 1986. They were provided no sleep sleeping bags manufactured by Sierra Designs that were insulated with “Quallofil” a chopped staple fiberfill made by Dupont. The bags weighed 15 pounds each. At the end of the journey the bags “accumulated moisture added nearly 35 pounds” Steger said. It was 35 pounds of ice. They were 50 pounds. Had they used the Wiggy’s Antarctic bag that is rated for use as low as -60 F with a weight of 8 pounds they certainly would have been better off. We have supplied the National Foundations contractor working in Antarctica for 20/25 years and countless others operating in Alaska from the military to civilians. I know there is no ice build up in a Lamilite insulated sleeping bag. When people buy any of these Asian manufactured no sleep sleeping bags that are not rated to perform in the arctic but the moisture from the user gets into the fiber adding to the reason one gets cold and doesn’t sleep. The moisture absorbs the heat so the fiberfill does not function very well as a form of insulation.

In the 10 years I hunted the Fossil Ridge Wilderness I bunked with guys from all over the country and they, all were using chopped staple fiberfill bags and with temperatures at -20/-25 degrees below 0 F they would wear most of their clothing and were still cold. I was wearing my fishnets in my Ultima Thule. Other disappointments buyers of these bags has to do with launderability, they aren’t. If you do the fiber bunches and renders the bag useless. Does one buying these bags have recourse when they find these problems, certainly not the retailer, or seller of the brand because they do not manufacture the product. I have said it before and I say it again and will continue too; “ TO BUY ANY OTHER BRAND OF [SO CALLED SLEEPING BAG] YOU WILL HAVE WASTED YOUR MONEY. So now you know the sale will continue until the end of the year!! 

People ask why these other companies don’t use Lamilite because they have never come to me. Of course, if they did it have to be shipped over seas very costly. Also, they will not open a U.S. factory and that will not happen. So Wiggy’s remains the only producer of continuous filament fiberfill sleeping bags.

By the way I might add that those who work for companies that sell no sleep sleeping bags are illiterate when it comes to manufacturing.