Just came across this list of ideas for “fun stuff” for Naked to do as an agency for $100 or under that I wrote over a year ago, at the behest of Joe.  I think we all wrote them – the goal was 100 ideas, so by #80, things get a little silly.  I bolded the more interesting ones.  Does anyone else still have their list?

1) We have a special “secret present” hiding place in the office.  Small presents can be left here, and taken by anyone – but if you take it, you have to replace it with another small present.

2) free movies at Brooklyn bridge park

3) making sure to read and comment on each other’s HON and personal blog posts

4) museum of natural history

5) book exchange shelf – bring books for others to borrow, on the condition that the borrower must write a short note about what they liked/didn’t like about the book.

6) go to concerts together, especially my pre-husband’s.  ( he has one tomorrow – ha)

7) replace the toilet paper roll of it runs out when you are in the bathroom

form some sort of volunteer organization

9) holiday craft fair

10) movie exchange shelf – same thing as book one

11)  staff-picks movie nights.  Once a month, someone picks a movie for everyone to watch.

12) Mario 3 tournament

13) pot luck supper

14) snack of the week – each week, someone gets $25 to make a snack for the entire office.  They have to invent the recipe.

15) apple pie baking session
16) Christmas cookie baking

17) embarrassing moments board.  Each person writes their most embarrassing moment, and these are all tacked to the bulletin board

18) baby pictures? Something with those?  So lame.

19) scrabble tournament

20) trivial pursuit night

21) photo contest

22) creative writing workshop

23) grow an indoor herb garden

24) get one of those upside down tomato growing things from Skymall

25) tech support Tuesdays – people share their tech issues, and we collectively help them solve them

26) Acting!  Each month, a randomly assigned group has to act out a scene from a movie or play

27) fly to LA to be on the price is right

28) get an espresso machine (NOTE – we actually have one, I just was apparently unobservant)

29) fresh flowers upstairs

30) fuck this is hard

31) wine sampling – each month, someone gets to choose a wine, and we sample it with some ritz crackers

32) street masseuse

33) cupcake day – one day a month, someone makes cupcakes in the kitchen

34) Saturday morning running – run together in prospect park

35) go apple picking

36) hayride

37) go to someplace haunted and freak each other out

38) ouija board for the office

39) each month, we make a short film about what we do at Naked – highlighting one element for each film in a humorous way.

40) Shakespeare in the Park

41) musical theater appreciation – watch old musicals ( the movies of them) in the conf room.

42) life issues – advice for whomever wants it.  Different topics led by people who many be experts ( like if you’ve gotten a mortgage, give advice about that)

43) petition together to get alessi to re-open the coffee bar in the morning

44) form a Habitat for Humanity group – once a year, a group goes to build a house or some shit

45) free noogies to anyone who wants one

46) I will play anyone at bloody knuckles, at their request

47) alex leads a session of simon says in French, improving our language skills

48) hire a French teacher and learn French, all of us, so Frenchy can”express herself”

49) replace those god-awful couches downstairs with something less hideous

50) ditto the chairs

51) sewing session – make little chairpads for our chairs

52) go to the statue of liberty and harass tourists

53) go to FAO Schwartz and hang out – whoever finds the best toy, as judged by MT, gets to buy it for the office

54) “stump Neal night” – we all come up with musical trivia questions for Neal, and whomever stumps him gets a day off

55) take a trip to be in the audience for a broadcast of “wait wait don’t tell me” on NPR

56) go blackberry picking

57) go to a 4H show or county fair.  ( THIS WOULD BE AWESOME)

58) morning yoga at work – small morning sessions of yoga led by one of us

59) Carvel cake eating contest.  Contest to see who can eat an entire carvel cake in one sitting.  This would have to be narrowed to a few people before the competition started

60) go to IKEA and get in everyone’s way

61) volunteer as a group at a public garden, and maintain it

62) Who makes the best meatballs?  Each month, someone makes their mom’s recipe for spaghetti and meatballs.  Then we judge them.

63) get a storyteller for a day at Naked NY

64) personal shopping – each month there is a raffle, and whomever wins it gets a personal shopping session with the Naked coworker of their choosing

65) cat petting – I will bring in my cats, and you can all pet them

66) go to dinosaur park in Connecticut

67) each month, we get small canvases and paint, and we all pair up to paint a portrait of our partner

68) ice capades

69) attend the circus

70) form our own circus

71) get an office pet, like a cat or guinea pig.  The money will go toward it’s food and stuff.

72) poetry hour – each week, someone new must share a poem they like with the office.

73) personal philosophies – we compile a book of our personal philosophies, however idiotic they may be, and we try to get it published

74) furniture building – each month, people submit a piece of furniture they’d like built ( like that can be made out of wood), and we will select one each month to build.

75) care packages for our troops in iraq

76) each month, we pay the postage for Satish to send us something weird as all fuck from India

77)  we start a program with other Naked offices, using the money each month to send them something weird as all fuck from NY

78) form our own jug band, using only office supplies as materials with which to make our instruments.

79) go to a taping of the Maury Povich show

80) go to a taping of the Daily Show

81) ice skating

82) each month, we get to print and frame one Flickr photo belonging to someone at Naked.  They can be hung in the office, or elsewhere, I guess.

83) new music at Naked – since we all listen to similar things, we use the money to buy newly released music ( the real CD’s) , and have listening parties

84) we all go to fire island and see what happens

85) each month, we can choose one decorative item for the office.  We can use that voting thing, but the 5 choices will be made by someone with taste

86) air-freshening:  all monies will go toward some sort of scent-improving system for the greenhouse

87) each month, someone can get hypnotized to do whatever it is they have been wanting to do (quit smoking, fear of flying, etc).  we all get to watch.

88) each month, we write a comic and try to get it submitted to the New Yorker

89) {REDACTED}

90) tattoo consulting – anyone who is thinking of getting a tattoo can vet it to the group first, and if the group unanimously agrees they should get it, Naked will pay for it.

91) laser tattoo removal, for those who acted rashly.

92) monthly competition to see who can create the most believable murder scene.  Money is used to buy props and materials.

93) laundry service

94) go to CAMP in Brooklyn.  Naked pays for the smores, we’ll get our own drinks.

95) client enrichment nights – we use the money to take our clients to something fun and exciting, like Barneys or the circus.

96) buy some absinthe off the internet

97) eBay find of the month – whoever can find the creepiest thing on eBay each month gets to buy it.

98) intern lunch fund – the money goes to our interns, for their lunch everyday.

99) marshmallow gun

100) Purchase a group membership to the NY film society, and fight over who gets to keep the 4 issues of Film Forum magazine that you get free.  Scratching and biting is allowed.