- It's kind of like you're being
hugged while you're sleeping.
(Lincoln groans)
(London laughs)
Are you ready for me to stab it?
- [Lincoln] No.
- Except. - Whoa!
(gentle music)
- Okay.
This is a weighted blanket.
Did you know that these things exist?
Apparently they're really big for a lot of health reasons.
People think that they're really good.
So we thought it'd be a really good What's Inside video
to see what's inside of a weighted blanket.
And so, we bought this one
because it's pink and it looks cute.
- Looked good.
- So we have a few blankets that we wanna show you.
And the key learnings that we found
over the last month of using them.
And then, I have a really small knife
that I thought we could use.
- Whoa.
- To cut it open and see what's inside.
- [Lincoln] Do you think
it's actually gonna cut the fabric though?
- I don't know, but it's gonna be fun to try.
- It looks really cool.
- Pow, just like that.
- That thing is huge.
- That is so big, I think it'll work.
Why do people get a weighted blanket?
It's kind of like you're being
hugged while you're sleeping.
So what does a hug do for you?
Well, eases insomnia by using this blanked supposedly.
Helps with sensory processing disorder,
reduces anxiety, fights back against stress,
ADHD, restless leg syndrome, fibromyalgia pain,
improves sleep quality, boosts mood,
promotes calm, encourages focus in the classroom.
Even just by sitting inside a class
and putting a weighted blanket on their legs,
supposedly research has shown
that can help some of the kids in class.
Eases pain without drugs?
Helps with the elderly, eases travel anxiety,
address symptoms of PTSD.
There's a lot of claims.
And we not saying that these things
actually fix those things.
But we're telling you what the internet
has said that potentially helps with.
I personally do sleep better, like I do.
It's like comforting to have the weight on your body.
- I'm starting to really like it.
- So now the blankets that we used
and the ones that we like and we don't like
and the reasons why.
Let's tear it apart.
First, let's go with the one we don't like.
This one, it looked really cute.
It was pink and it's so soft on the outside.
But after about a week being on the bed,
obviously like sometimes you're going to have
blankets like laying off the side of the bed.
All of the weight or whatever it is inside
starts falling to that side.
That side is incredibly heavy.
And this side has nothing.
- That's just a normal blanket.
- Yeah, it ends up becoming
more annoying than a normal blanket
because you're laying there in bed,
and all the weight is off the bed
and you got this non-weight part on you.
You wake up in the middle of the night
and it all falls off of you.
- That would be scary.
Like all of a sudden, just the blanket just falls off.
- You'd be a terrified like a ghost did it?
- Yeah.
(intense music)
- Ghost blanket.
So I guess we're gonna dub this one the ghost blanket.
Not our favorite.
This one is the one that came to really like.
It's like an Apple computer (laughs).
- Yeah, it does, like yeah.
- This is TRUBlanket.
And it comes in a 15 pound or a 20 pounder.
I guess the ideal weight is
you're supposed to have a blanket
that's like 10% of your own weight.
So even though 25 blanket sounds good,
that may be too heavy for most people.
- Yeah, it's heavy to lift up,
if you need to get out of bed.
- Yeah, I think a 15 pounder is
probably the best for most people.
Here we go.
That box is something else.
It's really nice.
- Bring out the knife.
Oh, it's so big.
- This is the big knife.
- [Lincoln] Whoa.
- That was scary. - Yep, that works.
The knife works.
- All right, this is a TRUBlanket.
And this is what Lincoln has been using in his room
and what Claire has been using in her room.
I just wanted to show you box 'cause it's really pretty.
Opening it up.
And this one comes in the gray color.
It has the really, really soft cloth.
- It feels good. - It does feel good.
But this one didn't have
the weight distribution on either side.
It pretty much stayed the same the whole time.
Check this out.
Never touch my teddy bear without permission,
except daddy, because I'm special.
Or because I wrote that in.
This is a TRUBlanket, like on her bed.
(energetic music)
And this is the one that Claire's been using
for like what, like three weeks or so?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
And you can see, like it's not all weird on the sides.
The other one, what happened to the other one?
You didn't like the other one as much, right?
- Mm-mm, when I was sleeping,
I would wake up and would be all cold
because the blanket would have fallen off the bed
because it was all heavy.
- [Dan] Did it scare you
'cause you thought a ghost took it off your bed?
(intense music)
- [Lincoln] Yeah.
- No (laughs).
- [Dan] Lincoln thinks that that would scare you.
- [Lincoln] That would scare you.
Like in the middle of the night,
all of a sudden, you just feel just go away.
- Oh, yeah.
- [Lincoln] It's like a heavy blanket too.
(Claire laughs)
- No, she's not scared of ghosts like you are.
(energetic music)
Okay, we have a bunch of 15 pound weighted blankets.
TRUBlanket, weighted blankets.
We're gonna see if we can put
all of them on Lincoln's head
and see if he can walk.
- It's gonna hurt my neck.
- Sit right here.
I'll put them on gently.
(energetic music)
One.
- [Lincoln] It's hot in here.
(girls laughing)
- [London] Two.
- [Lincoln] Ow, ow!
(energetic music)
- [Dan] Three.
- [Lincoln] Ow!
- Four.
You can't even hear him.
(girls laughing)
Oh, no, where'd you go?
- [Leslie] Stand up!
- [Dan] Where's Lincoln?
- [Lincoln] I can't.
- [Leslie] You can do it.
(energetic music)
- Oh, my gosh.
(Dan laughs)
It feels like somebody is just like pressing down so hard.
- This is a lot of weight.
Okay, let's try it with Claire.
- [Lincoln] It's just the top of it.
- [Dan] One.
- [Claire] Oh, my gosh, it's so hot.
- [Lincoln] Yeah, I know, that's what I was saying.
- Two, three.
Four, five.
Claire, can you walk?
(all laughing)
You just leaned forward, you just nose dived.
My turn.
- Oh, yay!
- Okay, here we go.
Keep them centered.
- Yep, I'm trying, one.
- [Dan] One.
Two, oh, that's heavy.
- [Lincoln] That's three.
- [Dan] Three, it's so heavy!
(energetic music)
- [Lincoln] Four!
- [Claire] That one's hard.
- [Lincoln] That one's heavy.
- Okay, stand.
- [Lincoln] Stand and walk.
(Dan groaning)
(kids laughing)
- It's so heavy, that does not feel safe.
How much weight is that?
Five blankets times 15 pounds.
- The last one is a 20, that one we put on your head.
- Oh, there was a 20 in there?
- [Lincoln] A 20 in there.
- Okay, so the last one was a 20, so.
- It's 15 times five.
- A lot, we'll put the math right here.
That's how much I had.
As soon as I started walking, I was like, I can do this.
And then I'm like, this is dangerous.
And so, I had to just throw it off.
(London screams)
(energetic music)
Here we go, number two.
(energetic music)
Okay, London, lift up both legs as high as you can.
Lift them up, your legs, these are your legs.
- [London] Oh, okay.
- [Dan] Lift them up.
- [London] I can't.
- [Lincoln] Higher, higher.
- [Dan] Whoa, can you get up?
- Yeah.
(energetic music)
- It doesn't even feel any heavier with me on it.
- [Claire] How about this?
- Ow, your knees hurt!
Actually, that didn't hurt that bad.
(London screaming)
- These blankets are incredibly heavy.
But what's really inside of them?
(gentle music)
- That's so heavy.
- Okay, every one of these blankets
comes with a zipper on it.
Because it's kind of like a down comforter type thing
so that you can wash the outside
of this when it gets dirty.
So it gives us an easy way to get inside
without a knife yet.
But that's take a look at the one
that's having issues.
Everything is falling to one side.
When you open it up, there's a couple things to notice.
- There's little pouches.
There's little pouches inside of it.
- There's all these squares that are inside of it.
And then they're tied onto the down comforter
with these little ties right here.
So that means two in the middle,
two, four, six, eight.
(suspenseful music)
Nine, 10, 11.
(suspenseful music)
11, 12, so this one has 12 ties.
So that's not the problem on this one.
Why is the blanket stuff switching to the bottom?
Let's see.
- Can you take the ties off?
- Let's go down to the bottom
and see where it was all bunching up.
Oh, yeah, you can feel it right here.
These squares are heavier than these ones over here.
So let's compare it to this other one.
Okay, so this one has the same thing.
It has 12 different ties around the edge.
And we've had some other ones
that only have four ties on it.
And that causes a big problem.
- I looks like the pouches are like
a fourth of the way smaller than this one.
- And you can see these are on
like a diamond type angle.
- [Lincoln] They're like rotated, yeah.
- These ones, you can feel.
They look just a little bit tighter.
These ones are just so big.
Somehow inside of these ones,
the fabric is all falling to one side.
So whatever's inside of here,
whatever's inside of here, it's not very tightly sewed.
- Oh, okay.
- [Dan] Let's see what's in this one.
(fun music)
Okay, ready for me to stab it?
- [Lincoln] No, no, no.
- [Dan] (laughs) I'm just kidding.
- Not right there.
(fun music)
Whoa.
(fun music)
Whoa!
(fun music)
One went directly into my ear.
- What the heck?
(fun music)
Look at this.
- There's two.
Two little tiny beads flew directly into my ear.
Like, one's in my eardrum.
- [Dan] Fairy dust, it's like pixie dust.
- It flew right into my ear.
- (laughs) They went everywhere.
They're like little glass beads.
I can't believe how many were in one pocket.
- Oh, my gosh.
- And then, oh, my gosh, there's so many.
London, come over here, come check this out.
Look what's inside of there.
Give me your head.
- Do they hurt? - No.
- Why does it look like salt?
- Look, they're like little fairy dust, pixie dust.
Okay, so glass beads are the thing that does the weight.
And then you can see it's like
just a bunch of cotton in there.
- There's so many inside the cotton.
- Some of the blankets on the market,
they don't really sew this bottom part that well.
And so, you can get all the ones shifting
from each one of these pockets,
like shifting down into it and just like piling up.
I mean, with the way the sewing is,
I can see how the beads are just going through.
All right, let's do the other one.
Let's do the TRUBlanket, hold this.
- [Lincoln] Let's not do it this way maybe.
(fun music)
- That knife is so sharp. - Okay.
(fun music)
- Wow. - Where's the beads?
- Where are the beads?
They are some in there, but it's just not as many.
- [Lincoln] They're the same beads, I got one.
- Did you get one?
Okay, I'm getting some out too.
Okay, same type of beads, just not as many.
On the TRUBlanket,
we could barely even feel the beads in it
'cause they're so much smaller
and they fit within the fabric.
And so because of that, they don't move around
and the weight is a bit more
evenly distributed around the inside.
(energetic music)
- Oh, my gosh, whoa!
- [Dan] Hold that tight!
- You're not doing anything.
- It doesn't really work that way.
All right.
- Oh, my gosh, look at how you threw that.
- [Dan] Leave that knife there.
Are you impressed with my knife throwing skills?
- I was actually impressed. - Yes!
So weighted blankets are a thing.
They are very cool.
But make sure you get ones that are built
with good enough quality that they don't shift.
'Cause they are not cheap.
They cost anywhere from $100 to
three, $400 for different blankets.
There's more to the inside that makes
the quality of the blanket work well.
It's not all about the cost.
After I was super disappointed with that pink blanket,
I reached out to TRUBlanket
and they sent us a few of these blankets.
Yes, we found that the weight is most distributed inside.
It's the one that we like the most.
But also, full disclosure,
they did sponsor this video by giving us blankets.
But if you are interested in a weighted blanket,
we'll put the link down below for a TRUBlanket.
And let us know what you guys think.
Do you like weighted blankets?
Do they actually help you for health reasons?
And I am totally sweating outside.
So I think it's time to go.
- We have so many beads on our patio.
Look down there.
- It's like somebody broke some glass or something.
(Lincoln laughs)
It's like diamonds.
What if they were made of diamonds?
This blanket would cost a lot more.
- Oh, whoa!
- That was scary.
- I was actually impressed.