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1. Does anyone have any good recipes for make-ahead breakfast casseroles or the like for guests? Thank you!

   1. It’s a bit of work, but I love to use guests as an excuse to make quiche lorraine. It’s great re-warmed and the leftovers are delicious anytime and I tell guests to help themselves if the need a snack. Here’s what I do: buy 2 frozen pie crusts from Trader Joe’s, make the filling from the BA recipe below. Note that this recipe is technically for one quiche but it makes an absurd amount of filling – plenty for two quiches. Cook per the directions, a bit shorter on time since and check it since it’s less dense in 2 tins. Once it’s made you can throw it in the oven to rewarm the morning you’re serving it. If you only need one quiche, I’ve found the second holds up very well in the freezer. https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bas-best-quiche-lorraine

   2. Basic:
      8 slices of bread
      butter or margarine
      1 pound bulk pork sausage (sometimes I use andouille or sliced hot sausage)
      1 1/2 cups (6 oz) shredded cheddar
      6 eggs (beaten)
      2 cups milk
      1 teaspoon salt

      Remove crusts from bread; spread bread slices with butter. Place in a greased (or Pamed) 13x9x2 inch baking dish and set aside. Cook sausage until browned; stirring to crumble; drain well. Spoon sausage over bread slices; sprinkle with cheese. Combine eggs, milk and salt; mix well, and pour over cheese. Cover casserole and chill overnight.

      Remove from refrigerator 15 minutes before baking.

      Bake casserole (uncovered) at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until set. Makes 8 servings.

      1. Same recipe, but add 1/2 tsp ground mustard for an extra little personality.

         You’ll know it’s done when it puffs up and browns a little.

         Best to use reduced fat cheese to cut down on excess grease.

   3. Smitten Kitchen has an egg, cheese, and spinach strata that is excellent.

      1. This

      2. +1

   4. Sausage egg cheese w/ crescent rolls

      – Spray baking dish
      – Cook 1lb ground sausage (I like spicy), set aside (drain grease)
      – Line baking dish with crescent rolls (1 pkg)
      – Beat 6-8 eggs, pour over crescent rolls, add cooked sausage
      – Top with 2ish cups of cheese – cheddar, colby, jack, mozz – whatever you fancy
      – Optional add-ins – green peppers, spinach, chili powder, tomatoes – etc.
      – If you can, leave it in the fridge overnight
      – Oven @ 350 – 30 minutes covered, 10ish uncovered

   5. America’s Test Kitchen spinach strata with Gruyere (Spelling?) cheese. Amazing. The recipe is for an 8×8 casserole, but easily doubled to fit a 9×13 for a larger crowd. I’ve made it a dozen times and it’s always a hit. It’ss vegetarian, so you can serve bacon or sausage (if you chose) on the side.

   6. Pioneer Woman’s baked french toast, here: https://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/baked-french-toast/

   7. I do kind of a “throw everything together” thing using a ratio of 1:1 for milk and eggs (usually comes out to 8 eggs plus two cups of milk for about 6 hearty servings). I generally use 1/2-3/4 a loaf of good french bread, cubed and toasted in the oven. Then I mix in whatever kinds of cheese I want, some kind of breakfast-y meat if I don’t need it to be vegetarian, and a vegetable. My favorite combo is cubed ham, spinach, and gruyere.

   8. The website Striped Spatula’s Croissant Baked French Toast is so good!

   9. I have not made it yet, but I have been meaning to make Chrissy Teigen’s everything bagel casserole. Looks really good!

   10. This sausage casserole. My mom makes it for christmas breakfast, and it’s the only time of the year I eat pork:

       6 eggs, lightly beaten
       2 2/3 cups light cream (half-n-half)
       1 Tbsp. brown sugar
       1/4 tsp. paprika
       1 Tbsp. minced onion
       1/2 tsp. dry mustard
       1/2 tsp. salt
       1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
       1/8 tsp. white pepper
       1/8 tsp. red pepper
       2 pounds sausage, 1 mild and 1 hot (I use Maple instead of hot)
       8 slices bread, crusts removed
       1/2 pound sharp cheddar cheese, grated
       Mix all ingredients except sausage, bread, and cheese. Butter a 3 quart casserole (or 9×12 pan) and layer bread, sausage, and 1 1/2 cups cheese in dish. Cover with liquid mixture. Top with remaining cheese. Refrigerate overnight. Take out 2 hours prior to cooking. Cook 1 hour at 350 degrees.

   11. I’m not OP but curious whether anyone has had gluten-free egg casseroles, if that’s a thing. I’m familiar with frittatas but I’ve never had one that I thought was delicious.

       1. I don’t have specific recipes, but I’d look into casseroles with potatoes or hash browns if it’s just the gluten, not the carbs, you’re avoiding. Otherwise, I’d look at paleo/keto recipes for egg casseroles.

       2. I’m celiac, and am 100% gluten free. I’ve actually found that commercial gluten free bread (Udi’s, etc.) works very well in most breakfast casserole recipes. Just substitute the gluten free bread slices for gluten filled. (Because gluten free bread loaves tend to be smaller, you may want to add an extra slice or two to make up the difference.) The texture isn’t quite the same, but it works 95% as well. I’d recommend trying your specific recipe with your specific loaf of bread ahead of time – just because different gluten free products can behave differently.

          1. Yep. I am also 100% gluten free (gluten is my primary IBS trigger) and have made lots of french toast casseroles with gluten-free bread. When I feel extra-fancy, I make the Bob’s Red Mill Wonderful Gluten-Free Bread Mix in my breadmaker and use that for the french toast casserole – I slice the loaf into slices once it’s cool and store them in an open Ziploc bag overnight so the slices can dry out slightly. I make one like that every year for Christmas. The Pioneer Woman recipe someone posted above is pretty close to the recipe I use, just with gluten free bread.

       3. Sometimes you can find gluten-free hash brown or tater-tot type potatoes that are delicious in breakfast casseroles.

       4. I made one for Easter, but I’d have to go back and find it.

2. My husband’s (very small) company holiday party is at a nice but not super fancy restaurant. I’m planning to wear a sleeveless black jumpsuit. Any ideas for a topper that will work with something like this? I’ll wear a coat, of course, but I live in a cold climate and am always freezing, even indoors. If the answer is that nothing will really look right, I’m definitely open to hearing that!

   1. I wore a black jumpsuit last year to my work holiday party and wore a sequined cardigan, that would work well!

      1. I think a black cape could look good. I have the one from Zara that gets tons of compliments.

   2. you could do a tighter-fitting turtleneck underneath. Either in black, or a festive color (red, green, gold, silver, etc.)

   3. This is another place where I think leather jacket is always a good answer.

   4. I wear a leather jacket with my similar jumpsuit.

3. Two rants ahead!

   1. I am irrationally annoyed at the pushing of the holidays this early in the season because retailers are desperate to increase their profits. I feel like I can’t avoid it: carols in every store, Christmas trees for sale before Halloween, constant gift guides… it makes me so cranky! I really try to reduce mindless consumption and I do not shop for pleasure, but I pass stores on my commute and I get 10,000 emails from every retailer I have ever shopped from (and yes, I am unsubscribing, but still…) and it just feels so annoying and completely not what I want the season to be about. How to deal without wanting to punch Santa?

   2. Everything seems to be made of declining quality (and also usually from China, though not always). The low quality scarf at Anthro is virtually the same as the one at Target as the one at Gap, and so on. Where is the distinction between good quality stuff? Didn’t Anthro used to be a nicer store that actually sold lined goods, leather products? Now everything is plastic and unlined and they use cheaper materials

   I remember when clothes had linings and tops weren’t so poor quality they were sheer. Do I sound like an old lady yet? I’m only in my 30s!

   1. Well, that’s capitalism for ya.

      I love Christmas, so I’m totally fine with Christmas decorations and carols everywhere even now. But I do understand why others aren’t as enthusiastic about it.

      1. I like Christmas, but not until after Thanksgiving. I feel like during my childhood, stores didn’t decorate for Christmas until the end of November, right after black Friday weekend basically. Now, it is in October.

      2. I’m okay with an excuse to put up Christmas lights early, as it gets darker earlier with the time switch after Halloween, and I like having that festive atmosphere as long as possible. My decorations tend to be stars and snowflake themed, though, and are more winter-themed than Christmas themed. I also leave them up thru Feb/March (as long as there is snow on the ground.

         I’ve been unsubscribing from the constant email marketing barrage, and don’t spend a lot of time in stores, so I have noticed the holiday marketing campaign as much, though.

   2. re #1) i LOVE all things holidays, but i’m with you. christmas decorations should at least wait until after Halloween, ideally after Thanksgiving, but if that isn’t going to happen, then can they at least wait until mid November? i feel like Thanksgiving gets completely looked over as a holiday. also – maybe because i’m Jewish and don’t actually celebrate Christmas (though I’m a total Hannukah celebrating, Christmas loving Jew – love all the lights, holiday movies, seasonal beverages etc. it’s like I get to enjoy the holiday season without the stress!), but how many gift guides do people need to know what to buy for people? every blogger has like a million gift guides. do people just buy gifts for every person they know? it seems so silly and frivolous and I am actually someone who likes giving people thoughtful gifts.

      re #2) i have young kids and my MIL likes to shop for them and even for kids clothes, it is like every store has a slightly different version of the same thing, maybe some are better quality than others. i actually feel kind of badly for the person/company that thinks up the original design.

      1. The gift guides are exclusively to make bloggers money.

         1. +1 they make me ragey and anxious all at once

      2. DH and I buy for 20 people, not including ourselves. It feels like everyone we know. The list includes our own kid, our best friend’s kid, 8 nieces and nephews, 6 parents/step-parents, two beloved aunts, my assistant (who will get a gift card), and our kid’s teachers (who receive cash).

         I shop exclusively online. I admit to having consulted some gift guides, especially for the kids. I actually finished shopping last night and will wrap gifts this weekend and next. I like to finish in November so I can enjoy the holidays in December.

         On the other hand, I won’t put up a tree, decorate, watch Christmas movies, or do Christmas activities until after Thanksgiving.

         1. wow, that list of recipients is quite big! I also like to shop and wrap early, and then I get to use neatly wrapped gifts as decor in my apartment for a few weeks, before giving them away!

         2. I’m in a similar situation. My partner and I have 10 siblings (plus spouses), 5 parents, 7 grandparents, 13 nieces and nephews, and all manner of aunts/uncles/cousins between us. We don’t buy for everybody, but our list probably still tops 30 gifts and I like to start early in order to give more thoughtful gifts without breaking the bank. We don’t decorate until Thanksgiving, though.

            1. I already did some of my shopping. I got a bed warmer for Grandma Trudy, a new non-prescription formula for IBS for Grandma Leyeh I found on the Internet, Apple cards for all of Rosa’s kids, boxer underwear for Dad (he always scratches holes in his underwear with his rough nails, Mom says), and I am cooking a Thanksgiving bird for the entire family! I do not give Rosa and Ed anything b/c they have everything already, and they don’t get anything for me b/c I usueally don’t like their tastes. I still have to get Mom something nice b/c she always looks out for my best interests! YAY!

      3. The gift guides can be helpful for coming up with ideas for gifts for hard-to-buy-for people or nieces and nephews who change so much as they grow. Nobody is actually buying everything on a gift guide.

   3. I dislike the trend of opening stores on Thanksgiving Day. For (expletive’s) sake, is it too much to ask that your retail employees be able to eat Thanksgiving dinner with their families at 5 pm?

      So every year, I go online, find out which stores open at 5 pm or 6 pm on Thanksgiving Day, and boycott them all year round. It means less mindless consumer spending throughout the entire year, and it makes me feel like I’m at least contributing a little bit to reducing the alleged profits that come from trashing Thanksgiving in an attempt to get profits.

      1. That is one thing I love about REI. Not only don’t they open on Thanksgiving, but they stay closed on black friday.

         1. I think that Little Women is opening on Christmas Day. My kids would love to see it then, but I get a little stabby. Even if you don’t want to spend time with your family, didn’t you just get a ton of presents that should hold your attention? What would Marmee think?!

            You couldn’t pay me enough $ to go to a mall b/w Halloween and whenever kids go back to school after Christmas. And chances are that I’d have to double-park there anyway. No thanks!

            1. I live in a state with a Very Large Mall, and I have discovered that leading up to Christmas they open an hour or two earlier on the weekends (so 8 or 9 am, instead of 10). But they don’t really advertise it, so if you are motivated enough to get up and get out the door, it’s blissfully quite for a couple hours. Best parking spot I ever got was the Saturday before Christmas at 9:30 in the morning (I had to do a return, so I was in and out quick).

            2. Movie theaters being open on Christmas Day (holiday for many, certainly not all) doesn’t bother as much as places being open on Thanksgiving (secular national holiday).

            3. Not everyone celebrates Christmas. Just because people go to the movies on December 25th doesn’t mean they are violating their holidays or family time.

            4. Yeah, going to the movies is a Christmas tradition for a lot of American Jews. It would be so weird to me if all movie theaters were closed that day. But even setting aside the religious minorities, I also know a lot of people who celebrate Christmas by opening presents and eating brunch and then going to a matinee. Going to the movies as a family IS spending time with your family. It’s not either/or, and just because your family doesn’t do it doesn’t mean you should look down on others who do.

   4. I don’t think Anthro has ever sold good quality stuff, at least in the housewares area.

      I hear you about #1 and refuse to be Christmasy before Thanksgiving.

   5. Your #2 is why I have such a hard time letting go of my old, out of date clothes. I hate, hate, hate getting rid of 100% silk shirts or lined linen pants (from Target of all places, but circa 2003 when I was in college) or 100% wool suiting because those items are basically irreplaceable without spending a fortune. Thankfully I work from home and can live in athleisure, so I don’t have to replace them!

      1. Yes! I have 100% wool lined skirts from Loft (not even real Ann Taylor!! Loft!!!!) from that era. You can pry them out of my cold dead hands.

      2. this is another advantage of buying used. In addition to using cheaper materials, manufacturers also pinch pennies in every other way they can, so where there used to be quality inspections ensuring that most pieces in stores are adequate, I feel like today it’s more “eh, lets try to sell it and if the seams are falling apart, we’ll exchange it and pass it off as great customer service”. I was researching some products lately and I swear half of the reviews were like “one star because the product fell apart immediately. Update: five stars because the company swiftly exchanged it free of charge”. This is now a legit business model, outsourcing the quality testing to the consumer, because they don’t have to reimburse us for our hassle! And of course, there will always be some people that are too busy to complain and get an exchange, so they get to make extra profit selling junk.

         But the thing is: it’s not that all their products are junk, it’s just more of a lottery. You used to be unlucky to catch faulty merchandise that slipped through quality control. Now you are lucky if you get faultless merchandise on the first try. Used clothes that have been worn and washed at least a couple of times have already passed this testing process, so I am more confident buying them.

   6. My son has a mid-November birthday, which he has always happily associated with thanksgiving and thanksgiving decor. Now retailers are skipping right from Halloween to Christmas. It makes us all really sad.

      1. That’s such a bummer!

   7. Agree with you on poor quality of merchandise, but I LOVE seeing Christmas stuff everywhere, even now. It makes me happy! Bring me the all-Christmas carol stations on satellite radio and the Starbucks festive cups! I wasn’t like this before I had kids in college. Now, when I see all the decorations, I think it won’t be long before all my chicks are in the nest for longer than a long weekend.

   8. I’ll join your frustration about emails. I do not want or need a daily email from every single company with which I’ve ever done business. I don’t need an email from west elm telling me that they Miss Me! or asking me if I’m still thinking about such and such lamp. Or jcrew alerting me that I’ve “left something in my cart.” Also, Free People? Where I shopped once and returned everything? Don’t send me two emails *per day.*

      1. Every few months, I unsubscribe from emails while waiting for the elevators at work. The elevators in my building are really slow though.

      2. I HATE those “did you forget something?” emails when I close out my browser with stuff in my cart. Nordstrom has been especially annoying lately! I am disappointed. Didn’t expect that from them.

      3. I use a separate email address for all my online shopping. I only check that email when I’m waiting on a delivery, otherwise I let the unread marketing emails pile up and never open that inbox.

         1. Same. I am using my old yahoo address from the early 2000s and I use it exclusively for online shopping or whenever I have to enter my email for anything. I mean, sure, it’s a bit embarrassing when I have to give it to a person in a store, but well worth it.

4. Need help from internet strangers. I’m married with two young kids. I’m a lawyer. Recently, very very irrationally, I have been thinking a lot about this old college crush. It’s weird that of all the old boyfriends or crushes, he should be the one who haunts me now. We never dated (he actually rejected me). I’ve thought of him from time to time, but in recent weeks it has really intensified and feels out of my control. Oddly enough, my relationship with my husband is actually pretty good now – like I’ll be thinking about this guy, and then my husband will come home and say something so nice and sweet to me, making me feel extra guilty. I’ve actually been pretty good about not googling him or looking him up on social media for all these years- though I couldn’t help myself in the middle of the night about a week ago. I mean, a little harmless fantasy is okay, but recently it’s gotten very constant and distracting and actually preventing me from being present in my own life. Maybe it’s early mid-life crisis? I really want this to go away. Give me some tips, please!

   1. If you are someone who has spent your entire life working to hit the next goal (college, law school, pass the bar, get job, get married, have kids), it can be really unnerving when you’ve “made it,” and you wonder if there is anything else out there. Sensible people understand this, forgive themselves the random musings, and enjoy the fruits of their labour. Other people blow up their lives and cause all sorts of misery.

      1. Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with the guy! I’m not usually someone who immediately points people to therapy, but this is a scenario where I would 100% go see someone for a couple sessions to help me try and unpack what is causing the fixation. It’s definitely something else going on with you and it’ll be helpful psychologically to be able to sort out what that something else is.

   2. You could just be bored, looking for the next challenge, and your subconsciousness reminded you of the toughest challenges of your life to help you to figure out that next thing

      1. Yes, you have achieved alot, and the old guy who rejected you is something you want to rectify, Dad says, but we both warn you that men who know you are interested in them will immediately take advantage by bamboozeling you into having $ex with them right away. Do not go for the bait, b/c they will immediately reject you after the $ex is over b/c you are married and have baggage they are not interested in carrying after they have seen you naked and have had $ex with you. FOOEY on all of that!

   3. Not in your position at all, but I find myself engaging in this kind of thing when I’m unhappy about something and want an escape. It may not be exactly correlated with the thing I’m dreaming about. My brain just picked something to fixate on that seems like it will get me “out of here.”

      It might be hard to find time with two young kids, but it might be good to spend a few hours thinking about how you are feeling about various areas of your life. Is there something you are unhappy about and ignoring? Often, acknowledging the sadness/dissatisfaction is all it takes. You might also actually need to improve the problem.

5. On Friday, I complained that I got yelled at by co-counsel for something unreasonable. Today co-counsel asked the partner at my firm to take me off the case. Partner agreed, then told me separately that co-counsel is being unreasonable and assured me that I didn’t do anything wrong, this won’t affect me internally, and that someone just needed to be the fall guy in this situation, but it still stinks. (I can’t go into what the dispute is, but if you only knew how petty it was….).

   1. Your partner is a chickensh!t.

      I know it doesn’t apply here, but I am a GC, and I don’t hire counsel who can’t play nice with other lawyers. I need people to work on a team. Take heart that karma will take care of this person.

      1. Yes, you have achieved alot, and the old guy who rejected you is something you want to rectify, Dad says, but we both warn you that men who know you are interested in them will immediately take advantage by bamboozeling you into having $ex with them right away. Do not go for the bait, b/c they will immediately reject you after the $ex is over b/c you are married and have baggage they are not interested in carrying after they have seen you naked and have had $ex with you. FOOEY on all of that!

   2. Agree 100% with Anon. I hope there’s more to this story that means your partner is not chickensh!t, but gosh, on the surface, that kinda sucks from all angles. At least partner didn’t blame you, but geeze. I guess on the upside it saves you what could only be a crappy experience continuing to work with this co-counsel.

6. I posted a couple of months ago about a fight I had with my sister (which I acknowledged was entirely my fault but I was actually asking about equality is marriage).

   As an amusing epilogue, my sister and brother-in-law had dinner over the weekend with my family. The aunt who sent me off into a rant by comparing my success with my sister (who married someone in my industry but with significantly more experience) made an equally catty and passive-aggressive remark to my sister but now the problem is apparently that my sister – with her happy marriage and 2.9 children – is wasting her life. So I pulled the aunt aside and told her to knock it off (I mean – come on(!) My sister is literally weeks away from having baby #3; she does not need to deal with this.)

   My sister and brother-in-law and I are now bonding over how some members of my family are terrible and are closer than ever. So happy ending to at least that part of the saga!

   1. Yayyy that’s so great. I love talking about bad relatives with my sister, one of our favorite topics lol.

   2. I think I remember your original post – was it your BIL who said something about her problems also being his problems?

      Anyway, your aunt is a jerk. Congratulations to your sister on baby #3, and I hope that her delivery goes smoothly. You’re taking different paths, and both paths are valuable.

      1. That was my BIL! And now he says that if he had realized what “an evil harpy” our aunt was, he would have cut me a lot more slack. (She has a genius for knowing just exactly where to twist the knife.)

         My sister and I did take very different paths and I will admit to some worry about what happens if he ever leaves her, but since he gives every appearance of thinking she walks on water, I am working on letting that go.

7. I am friends with people who are hippies and who are vegetarians and unitarians. Our kids are friends. I know how my kids could rebel if they were inclined. But the friends’ kids — how do you rebel in that environment? In a suit?

   1. I knew someone in high school whose parents were very free-spirited, and yes, she was much more conservative and buttoned-up than her upbringing might have led you to expect.

   2. Yup. Alex P. Keaton.

      1. This.

      2. I’m about as liberal as you can get, and I’ve raised my kids in Berkeley. My teenage son gets my goat by saying neckbeard-type things to me all the time. He’s also fond of quoting flat earthers.

   3. By becoming those people who consider owning a private plane to be something to aspire to.

      1. YASSSSS

         I have a work friend with a kid who is a vegetarian because he isn’t.

   4. Yup, you become a Republican. I’ve actually seen this multiple times.

   5. By going to Wharton and/or an ivy law school and taking up a job at McKinsey or in biglaw.

   6. yup, preachy conservative money driven kid rebelling against me is a nightmare scenario for me. But I didn’t really rebel against my parents, so who knows.

   7. Lol, one of my best friends did this by joining ROTC. She un-joined pretty quickly though!

   8. Lol.

   9. This made me laugh because I was a skater punk in high school and college and it drove my hippie parents crazy. My mom did.not.understand the studded black leather and the piercings and the 2-minute songs that were just someone screaming into a microphone. My husband was also a skater punk and apparently his conservative Catholic mom was just as horrified as my agnostic hippie mom, so maybe punk will be the way to go for your friend’s kids. It remains cool as a way to freak people out, as I understand it.

      We are having a hard time imagining how our son will rebel against us, because we pretty much did it all and it would take a lot to shock us. If he became a hardcore conservative in the buttoned-down Alex P. Keaton mold, however, that would suffice. I hope he doesn’t figure that one out.

   10. Meet an ultra conservative evangelical Christian, become born again, get re-baptized, move to a deep red state, bow unquestionably to your husband and church’s view that women must always submit to men, etc. etc. etc.

       Small sliver of a real story.

       1. Start college as a liberal kid, like your parents.

          Meet a member of a sect religion that says you have to disown everyone not in your religion.

          Marry this person while in college and disown all your family.

          Become the person in this sect who rats out everyone within the religion who isn’t following every rule to the tee.

          Discover Facebook a good ten years after everyone else did and start using it as a platform for trying to “out” former classmates (who innocently accepted your friend request) for doing normal college things like drinking, weed, and s ex.

          Also a small sliver of a real story.

   11. Usually they become morally corrupt from ages 16-20 and then realize the error of their ways and that their parents were right and become vegan and work for a NGO.

   12. Most Unitarians are really progressive and social justice-y so they could certainly rebel by being politically conservative and working in a corporate environment making lots of money that you don’t donate.

   13. I knew an Episcopal nun who came from a non religious family. She always said becoming a nun was her teenage rebellion.

8. My office is ridiculously cold. I have no control over the heat in the building. I’m on the ground floor and the third (and top) floor is uncomfortably warm so the heat will never be turned up. I have a space heater, wear wool socks, multiple layers, jacket in my office, drink hot drinks, etc. I am still cold enough that I sit at my desk shivering and I am noticeably (to me, at least) less productive. So, what look is the least unprofessional?

   (1) Large lap blanket in my office
   (2) Oversized sweater (sleeves come well over my hands)
   (3) Something else I’m overlooking?

   1. You could swap the lap blanket for a heating pad or heated blanket, smaller the better.
      Does the space heater not heat up the office if your door is closed? You could also get a more powerful heater.

      Have you tried wearing a Uniqlo compact down jacket or longer coat? Or a Patagonia jacket?

   2. A heated seat pad and foot warmer. And, yikes, my sympathies! I would add the sweater and the lap blanket. Maybe make it a very thick warm shawl/oversized scarf so it looks less blanket-like? Also, moving regularly helps a lot. A brisk walk in the hallways might do wonders to keep your blood moving and your core warmer.

      1. Foot warmer 100%! Changed my life.

   3. I would add tights under your pants and socks, fingerless gloves, and a scarf that is decorative enough that it can pass for a pure accessory but that actually keeps your neck and lower head warm.

   4. Oil filled radiator for the win! They also neither surge the electricity nor emit dry gust of heat like a space heater.

9. Keep a lovely cashmere throw in your office to take on and off as needed.

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