I work in pretty stuffy office. We wear ID cards on lanyards around or necks. I like to spice things up and wear unusual lanyards to wear at work. For instance, I found a Ramones lanyard that is great, but I’d like to find more odd, kitschy, subversive or downright weird lanyards. Anyone have any suggestions of places – particularly on-line where I can find them? (Can’t be too racy though.)

You can get laynards anywhere, with any theme, but it’s more fun to make them. That way, you express your personality and have a little fun at the office.

My colleague comes to work with "theme" laynards that are so much fun. She makes the lanyards using kits she buys on the internet (she buys the clips – do a search on "lanyard clips" on Froogle). For Valentines Day, she strung together plastic heart beads she got at the dollar store. For St. Patrick’s day, she braided green shoelaces together and put a couple of shamrock pins on it. For the Christmas holiday season, she actually found some tiny beads that look like Christmas tree lights and wired them (with a battery pack) so that they blink. For July 4th… well, you get the idea. I’ve even seen her make a lanyard out of candy necklaces wound around long phosphorus-filled plastic tubes (Halloween) that glow. For kitsch, try the "Oriental Trading Catalog", or orientaltrading dot com.

I’m not so daring (or resourceful). I simply went to my university’s site and purchased two — one with the university’s name, the other with its mascot theme.

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