How to make your thrift shop window display as attractive as possible for all those ugly-sweater-party aficionados:

First: hang up your ugliest, most improbable sweater at the very center of your display (and, since we’re going for that run-down, super-cheap, down-on-its-luck-second-hand-store look, be sure not to wash your window first).

Ee-ai-ee-ai… oooohhhh noooooo

Second: Take a display dummy, your second-ugliest sweater and… need I say more?

Not even in his worst nightmares did Bart dream of such an ignominious fate…

One thing’s for sure, no one will ever be able to accuse this shop keeper of pretentious window design. Indeed, I doff my hat to him, so to speak. When the warehouse gives you lemons…

What? You’ve never heard of the ugly sweater craze? It started with Christmas sweaters (see the link below) but now it’s apparently becoming a year-round trend… in this store, anyway.

• Ugly Christmas sweaters (kvue.com)

Hope that cheered up your day without offending you taste sensibilities tooooo much…

See you next time,

– Jennifer