I bought it so I could just park and picnic whenever and wherever I wanted to with my little baby. He's crawling and exploring so I looked for the biggest mat I could find that would fold up nice and compact. It's everything that I was looking for but after one use of trying to fold it up.. It looks like it might tear at the creases soon. The material is like flattened plastic straws.. Flimsy and probably not going to last very long.. But I guess for the price it's ok. I would still be using it even if theres a little hole here and there