Light, cheap and warm a fleece blanket is an easy add to your car kit, camping equipment or go/ stay/ slumber party bag.

A blanket is SO versatile. You can sit on them, wrap them around you, cover a victim with them, use them to help build a shelter, use them like a towel, create a privacy screen, blackout windows, make padding for a splint, use them like a sled, make a sling to carry a baby, make a backpack...

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+1 on the fleece blanket.
Very good idea.

Pete2

All in all, I prefer my woobie (aka GI issue poncho liner).
More expensive but it packs smaller and is lightweight.

I'm with JBMat... I love my poncho liner

I love my poncho liner too. Would like it even more if it wasn't so slippery slick. And tips to make it less so?

A few years back I found a fleece sleeping bag. It's basically a fleece blanket with a zipper around the edge so you can zip it in half to make a sleeping bag.

I ended up buying one for all our family's cars/trucks/ect. It's not as warm as a nice sleeping bag, but it was reasonably priced, it rolls up to be reasonably compact, and it can keep one plenty warm inside the vehicle.

It also comes in handy as a picnic or Fourth of July blanket, so you don't have to sit directly on the grass.

+1 woobie. no offense

I have one of those also, as well as a conventional fleece blanket. The interesting thing is that the fleece in the bag is not nearly as substantial as the fleece in the regular blanket, and the bag is not nearly as warm as it could be. There is fleece and then there is fleece.....

Both are just fine in moderate temps. If it gets cold, you need a real bag, synthetic or down fill.

If I have time for a nap, it's under my woobie.

The only offense I take at a woobie is the name! Argh! Go suck your thumb with it

I actually snagged a fleece blanket when I was deployed - it now sits in my truck. Kind of funny, since it came in a giant "care package" to the chaplain. Something like 50 blankets, and there were several boxes over the months. And all came in the middle of summer when it was 120 out ...

But funnier, to me at least, is that the blanket flew from the US to Afghanistan and back to the US. It's in my car full time (w/ a space blanket), and in winter a bivy cover gets thrown in as well.