On a radio show recently, a wife called in to tell me her story about how she handled her husband’s lack of “wardrobe awareness.” She was SO tired of seeing her husband’s battered and worn out underwear that were barely hanging on by a thread, she was motivated to drastic action. One morning, when she was putting clothes in the laundry, she took a black Sharpie pen and drew circles around three holes in a pair of her husband’s underwear. One note with an arrow to a hole surrounded by her drawn circle said, “Air.” The next note around her circled hole in his underwear said, “Enter.” The note around the third hole said, “Exit.” The husband laughed later that day and promptly bought new underwear. Good-natured humor wins. Mike

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Our family tradition began about 15 years ago. I mentioned to my wife that I really enjoyed looking at Ziggy in the funny papers. She stored this in her memory to revisit later.

The first Ziggy on the scene is the J.C. Fields complete with top hat and spats in his red tuxedo. He appeared one Christmas as my first surprise. Hence the collection from American Greetings started.   You can see in the pic below as the first-left gent:

Next on the scene is the jailbird Ziggy,  complete with ball and chain. I received "Prisoner of Love" on one of my birthdays. He is dressed in the appropriate black and white striped suit.