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(bouncy, energetic Christmas music)

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(bouncy, happy jazz music)

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- Hi, I'm Hannah,

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and I'm addicted to Christmas sweaters.

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My sweater collection started
probably six years ago.

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I bought a sweater vest on
eBay and it smelled horrible,

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but it was just the
funniest thing in the world,

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and it snowballed into
this long-running joke

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of just buying any
vintage Christmas sweater

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I could get my hands on.

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My mom joined in, and
together we have a collection

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of upwards of 350.

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I know I'm crazy.

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I'll be the first one to
say, "I'm totally insane."

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This is a good crazy.

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It's fun.

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I wear one every day of
the month of December.

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And it makes people happy.

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I walk down the street
and people are like,

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"That's a cool sweater."

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The sweaters are so cool.

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If you just spent the time
to just look through each one

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and see how funny and cool they are.

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I think it's awesome.

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My idol, the only person I'd like to meet

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if I could meet anyone in the world,

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it would be Michael Simon.

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He does the most brilliant designs,

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the most in your face,
disgusting Christmas barf

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all over everything.

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Wherever you go in a
Michael Simon sweater,

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like people know that you're there

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because they can sense the Christmas

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coming off your sweater.

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If I had to guess how
much money we've spent

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on Christmas sweaters,
it's probably about $2,000.

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We have a few sweaters that
are going for about $500 now.

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The character ones are insanely popular,

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so I think we could probably
triple what we spent

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if we sold all of them.

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But now we're kind of attached,

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so I think we're gonna keep 'em all.

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It's impossible to make
an ugly Christmas sweater.

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Like the way you'd make it is,

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"How do I make a really
nice Christmas sweater?"

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And that's what these are.

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When you see the ones now
that are trying to be ugly,

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you can tell the difference.

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It's not authentic.

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It's not an actual Christmas sweater

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with the intent of
looking really glamorous.

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I like that this is a thing
that's brought my mom and I

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really close.

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Literally the only reason we
have it is because it makes

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people happy.

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So, that's probably my favorite
part about owning all these.

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The mailman really, really
hated my mom for a while,

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because he'd come with just
this giant bin full of packages

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'cause we'd have like 15
sweaters coming at a time

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on the reg.

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(laughter)

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(creaking)