Hi everybody,
Sorry about the lace post. I actually finished it but messed up on the post date so it’ll go out tomorrow. As for today, well, the week’s almost over so you know what that means! This week I’m looking at sweaters we really didn’t want as gifts but got anyway. Okay, seriously, how many have you gotten that you knew what they were before you opened the box and were trying to find a way not to open. did you go as far as thinking of hiring someone to come into your house and “steal” the gifts under the tree so you wouldn’t have to open it? I mean just because you can do something (knit in this case) doesn’t mean you have to, right? What were these people thinking when they made these? What were other people thinking when they BOUGHT them??? I can come up with a few reasons to give one of these to someone I don’t like that much, but in the end I’d probably just have decided not to waste my money! Let’s look at this one first because this is where it all began …
The Rudolph sweater – We’ve all seen them and most have gotten one but this is probably the original. It actually has bells that come attached to the sweater. No sneaking up on anybody wearing this. And this way your children can be even more annoying as they play. Luckily the bells are removable. The sweater is too and probably only made an appearance at Christmas dinner when whoever gave it to you was there. Remember the scene in Bridget Jones’ Diary? LOL.
Beer sweaters – Okay, I’m not much of a beer drinker to begin with but seeing this on someone would make we want to drink it even less! Really? Do you have to advertise for the company everywhere you go? Budweiser makes some of the best commercials out there but they have to work on their clothing design. Actually I guess it’s the company that decided to manufacture them that should be blamed. And the people that decided to turn their body into a beer bottle so they could proudly say “I drink this beer”! Ugggggh! I mean, I wouldn’t wear a sweater showing a bottle of Appleton’s Rum.Notice the model is not an overweight, balding, middle-aged couch potato?
Okay, Bill Cosby was the coolest dude on TV and he managed to pull off the “Ugly Sweater” so well that they started calling them “Cosby Sweaters”. I am and will always be amazed by his genius and comedic ability. Did you know he did all the voices on the show “Fat Albert”? That show used to be my religion with me watching it on Saturday mornings more regularly than I went to church on Sundays. The thing is though, again it falls under the “just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean you should” category. Look at this one? What would possess someone with his financial resources to buy a sweater of someone running track across his chest? Bill what were you thinking? Yeah, Bill wore some good sweaters but also wore a few that made you do a double-take.
Okay, so if you’re not too embarrassed, here’s what I would love to do. Send me a picture of you wearing your “best” Cosby/Rudolph/reindeer/ugly sweater. Hopefully it isn’t a recent picture so no one will recognize you. I’ll take the best pictures and post them and I’ll have a special prize for the very best one! Hmmmm, I better start rummaging through the old pics!
Hugzzz 😎