i guess i get -4 points for my shirt with a candy cane on it.  

alas, i have no christmas sweaters.  looks like i have about 10 years until i hit that magical age to work on collecting some.

i think christmas socks should count for something tho, i have a few pairs of them.

Thank you, msemily, for your mellow post.  I was SPITTIN MAD earlier (and who knows, I may also wake up that way, in which case I pity the fools blogging around 8:30 tomorrow morning,) and I decided to check the blogs, looking for anyone stupid enough to...well, exist.  And then I saw your blog.  And it made me happy.  It was just the kind of antidote to stinky bull**** I needed, and I thank you.  : )

So I pulled my Christmas sweatshirt out of the laundry basket (bought at Gottschalks at the "Everything $5 sale."  Really, I'm not an old lady or a nerd!  It was $5!  What can I say?") and it has one snowman on it, a lantern, several stars and a bunch of holly, and according to your point system of Christmas Sweater Awesomeness, it rates a one.  That makes me a "cotton-headed ninny-muggins."  Normally, I'd take offense at that.  However, since "Elf" is one of my all-time favorite Christmas movies, I'll take it as a compliment.  : )

And I agree, Christmas socks should count for something, as I have a pair of my own.  And what about Christmas earrings?  I have 2 or 3 pair of those.  But now I have a goal.  In this crazy (and apparently cranky) holiday season, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for me, and that is to achieve Christmasawesomeness.  I'm going to find a Christmas Sweater that not only has a manger scene, 15 Snowmen and the Budweiser Horses, but one that lights up, vibrates, and sings "Jingle Bells" when I run, because I am going to have Christmas Cheer if it KILLS ME, and especially if it kills everyone that comes in contact with me.  ESPECIALLY then.  Mmmm.

Merry Christmas! 

I guess I lose. I don't have Christmas sweaters OR socks..........

christmas earrings should count.  i have jingle bells, candy cane earrings, not sure what else.  and also assorted cheesy pins and necklaces

i love Elf.  my niece said the other day that she was getting tired of christmas music; i had to remind her that the best way to spread christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

tony, seein's how you're not a woman ovre 40 i guess we can excuse you.

but how about a santa hat?  Everyone should have a santa hat, if not to wear it yourself, to put on your cats and take goofy pics of them

I've got an Elf hat with pointy ears. Does that count? I even have pictures of me wearing it. I used to have a helmet with really big Deer Antlers (not real ones. made from PVC Pipe and Bondo and painted to look real) attached. They were for the Cub Scouts. They got a kick out of Mr. Tony wearing funny hats at the Pack Meetings. They would throw rings at the antlers. If they hooked a ring, I'd give them a sucker.

I don't know how to post the pics here, but if you want to see me being stupid for the kids, email me and I'll send them to you. lol

I have winter-themed flannel sheets and I own a red blouse that can be combined with a white or green undershirt, but that's about as close as I come to Christmas clothes or jewelry.

Thanks Em, for letting me off the hook since i'm not a woman

I'm still THAT nutty though......................

The decorations are enough ... no seasoned-inspired wardrobe here. But then again, I'm not forty yet ("but it's there, it's just sitting there like some big dead end"   -- anyone recognize the quote?)

Msemily, you had a great sense of humor "over there". Yes, I think being the cat whisperer would be cool.           :)

I wear Christmas jackets made of felt with all the goo gahs on them.  I have one or two Christmas sweat shirts too maybe.  And talk about Christmas socks.  I have a pair for each of the entire 12 days of Christmas.   I have a necklace made of clothes pins decorated to look like tiny Rudolphs and a pair of earings that are real Christmas lights.   I also have a storage container in the garage somewhere with Santa Hats and Reindeer horns that I bought for work one year.  Our department wore them to the Christmas party.  Woo Hoo.

I never thought I would see Catherine in anything resembling a Christmas sweater or sweatshirt.  She was a Goth girl in HS and never wore anything lighter than black!  Now she owns a Christmas sweatshirt.  I'm still laughing.   :-))) 

Next, she'll send out  Christmas cards with a picture of her whole family dressed in matching red sweaters, even the cat.  

And then shell buy  matching mother and daughter dresses for her and the baby and matching shirts for hubby and son so they can all go to Disneyland as the Griswalds.   You've come a long way Goth Girl.

I have treasured hand-knitted "ski sweaters" from my grandmother, made with a reindeer motif.  Guess that counts technically, but it's pretty darn close to zero on the Xmas scale.

I like a good Bill Cosby sweater for the holidays.  I'll pass on anything with reindeer or snowflakes.

OK Tony, this I gotta see.  Send them on.

I have a black, long sleeved T-shirt that my boss gave out last year.  It has a candy cane and Happy Holidays on it and I'm wearing it to lunch with the girls today.   Along with my stretchy charm bracelet with trees, bells, boots, gifts, wreaths and stuff.  I think I have earrings too but gotta figure out what I did with them.

I'm not worried about getting older and wearing Christmas sweaters.  If anything, I consider wearing Christmas sweaters my prerogative as a woman--and I plan on getting even cheesier about it the older I get. 

You know, getting older may have its drawbacks, but the part I like is that people pretty much leave old ladies alone to do whatever they want--and old men, too.  When you're young, if your pants aren't the right brand and your hair isn't cool, you suffer for it.  It's a lot of pressure to just maintain at that age.  When you get older, though, you notice an increasing level of disinterest from people in how you look.  By the time you reach 60, people are just impressed if you remembered to get dressed at all.  I like that.  I wanna be the kooky old lady that wears nurse shoes and 25 charm bracelets and clothes from 20 years ago that are back in style and that make the kids wince when they see me in them because they don't want some old lady dressing like them.   Yeah. 

Cat

You just revealed the secret upside of aging.  Old Ladies Rock! 

Just think about it, do you think a cop would ever beat on an old lady, regardless of what she was doing?  She could pee on his shoes if she wanted to and he'd just figure it was an old lady thing.  ; -)

Hey Cat

I just saw this.. By the time you reach 60, people are just impressed if you remembered to get dressed at all...

It's really not safe to leave the baby with an old gomer like me every Monday afternoon........................................ ..

It's really not safe to leave the baby with an old gomer like me every Monday afternoon

Yeah, I'll risk it because I have never seen you forget to get dressed--yet.  We'll take it on a week by week basis.  ; P

As for peeing on a cop's shoes--I already do that, but only when he kicks them off in the middle of the living room floor. 

I dress poorly enough now, without adding the holiday element into it. And I've already warned pretty much everyone who chooses to be seen in public with me that I'm only going to get weirder and weirder as the years go by. I want big plastic cat's eye glasses (in purple), a feather boa and a tiara just for everyday wear. I know if I truly want to be the crazy cat lady I have to earn it.

I've only got the Santa hat. I guess I'll have to check with Mom and sis to check their wardrobes...