Julia hovering over the cupcakes at Meghan’s UNBELIEVABLE Clothing Swap Party (Amanda did an incredible job with the food).

Here’s what we did:

1. First, we had an “ugliest clothing” contest (we all voted on which item of clothing was the ugliest). I won with a brown velour (I think) baby-doll dress bedecked with flowers. (My prize: a gift certificate to Dashing Divas.)

2. Every person in the room got a number (we just counted off in a circle).

3. We spent a few minutes perusing the wares, and then each person went in turn and picked their top item. (It was incredible: literally everyone had their eye on something totally different, and it seemed to me that everyone got their top pick.)

4. Then we went around the room again, this time in reverse order (so the people with the lowest numbers didn’t get the short end of the stick).

5. After a few rounds of this, we declared a free-for-all.