Hauppauge food bank to hand out Snuggies (w/pic)

[The Straight Story]

Hauppauge food bank to hand out Snuggies

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Hauppauge food bank Long Island Cares has received a variety of decidedly nonfood donations in the past, including barbecue grills, Christmas trees, even doghouses.

But 20,000 Snuggies was a first.

The agency received the much-advertised blankets with sleeves from manufacturer Allstar Products Group, which is donating 100,000 Snuggies to food banks around New York.

Long Island Cares executive director Paule Pachter, dressed in a blue version that draped down to the floor, stood next to 154 pallets of Snuggies stacked in the agency's warehouse Tuesday, joined by two staffers wearing a pink and a blue Snuggie.

"It was very unusual," Pachter said of the donation. "But when we looked at it, we said, 'Wow, this makes so much sense.' "

The Snuggies are a welcome donation as winter temperatures dip into the 20s and 30s, said Tracie Nielsen, operations director for the Lighthouse Mission in Bellport, which received dozens of pink Snuggies from Long Island Cares.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/hauppauge-food-bank-to-hand-out-snuggies-1.2586169?qr=1

[rfranklin]

1. Okay, now the gas company can turn of the heat without worrying..

about those frozen old folks.

[Shandris]

2. An unexpected but very nice move by the manufacturer.

My mom got a Snuggie for Christmas and she loves it.

It's very cynical to think that it was done so that 'now they can shut the heat off on the elderly'. Such horrible hyperbole.

Clearly, it was in response to the heat ALREADY being shut off. :P