I’m a big believer in ugly sweater parties — for Christmas, Halloween, Hanukkah, the 4th of July — because a sweater party can bring an office together better than any team building event.
Bedazzling breaks down corporate silos, yo.
I recently sold two of my ugly Christmas sweaters on eBay and I stumbledupon a site called BaadSheep, which is the capital of fugly holiday sweaters.
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I went to a non-work related ugly sweater party this weekend and saw some real winners.
I love the stuff white people like blog.
@Average Jane was it the massive KC party?
@Minion I wrote this LAST WEEK — and became friends with Baad Sheep on Facebook — and SWPL posted their blog entry on Sunday. D’oh. There’s a link to the post in my first sentence. Timing is everything, I guess.
Im going to start a craze in our office. keep it nice and old school diamond acrylic tank tops is a great start point
Thrift stores are a great place to find ugly holiday sweaters. Despite my mother’s pleading I’m still ugly sweater free.
How do you throw a party making fun of the ugly sweaters when there is someone who LOVES them? It is enough for me to banish Casual Fridays in December.
My husband’s workplace is having a holiday luncheon with a luau theme (ugh–cocktail weenies are sure to factor in) and an ugly sweater contest. Our feeling is that since the great majority of employees in his department have not been in the U.S. that long, there are unlikely to be many entries. Heck, I’m 32 and from a small Midwestern town, so I consider myself one of the likeliest people around to have an ugly Christmas sweater and I don’t have one.
We used to have categorized “bake-offs” in my old office for holidays or randomly. The categories were usually loosely seasonal. I liked this better. Even with only truly enthusiastic people entering (there was no pressure to bake if you didn’t want to), there was always plenty of yummy food, and it was fun to rank the entries. It was also about as much of a “theme” as I am generally willing to tolerate. Of course I might be biased because my cherry pie won the pie contest.