If there’s one thing we could use during this recession-marred holiday season, we’d have to go with savings. If there were a second thing we could tack on, we’d say, “how about some top notch tees from one of our favorite design houses?” Thanks to Momimomi we’ll be able to check both of those boxes off of our wishlist. Starting today, the tee company unleashes some quality holiday creations for ‘08 along with some special discounts for a few preferred customers — namely our readers. Yes, you’ll have the honor of receiving 25% off orders of $100 and above. As a bonus you’ll even be able to save a major amount of money on Momimomi’s TEeA Party subscriptions. The service that sends you one of a kind wearables at least once-a-month usually costs $360 for a 12-month subscription but for now you’ll only have to tender a mere $270. Just use our holiday discount code: MMholidayJS. Sounds like quite a deal if you ask us.

The Gift: Unfortunately, in today’s economy, giving someone the shirt off your back is no longer just a colloquial saying. People are literally wandering around homeless, jobless, and topless. Momimomi can’t have this. They need to clothe you in their unique, colorful, one-of-a-kind tees — at least once a month. Which is why they’re giving away a free three-month subscription to their TEea Party T-shirt of the month club (worth $120).

The Rules: We love ____ of the month clubs. Report back here (as a short link in the COMMENTS section) with the craziest club you can find. And a bacon of the month club isn’t crazy — it’s delicious. Only one entry per reader. Duplicate entries will be discarded.

The Deadline: Contest starts now and runs through midnight on 12/15.

Momimomi has taken on an “everything must go” mentality as they kick off their big Summer sale. With a new site launch slated for the fall, prices have been slashed so that you can get your claws on some quality tees for low, low prices (and so they can stock their virtual shelves with fresh new items). Every single shirt will be available for less than $30. So if you’re got the need … the need for tees, there’s never been a better (or cheaper) time to get to shoppin’.

I was browsing around the site reflecting on how far we’ve come and couldn’t help but notice the wealth of inspiration and content we’ve got in the SpearTalks archives. So, I figured I’d round them all up for easy consumption. Whether you like fashion, technology, art, or just about anything else– with nearly 40 incredible interviews, there’s something for everyone thanks to our very own Carmel Hagen. Go, dive in, it’s just a click away.

Last week I did something new around here, for the first time ever, I made a product, and tried to sell it. It was pretty funny, because in all honesty, I wasn’t trying to sell 100 t-shirts to make any money — it was just to make a great product and experience the whole process. Some readers who just joined us might have forgotten that last December I pledged 10% of my sites profits straight to charity. I intend on doing that again this year, hopefully raising the bar for other sites to do the same.

After receiving some loud criticism from readers on the price tag of the Momimomi X Josh Spear T-Shirt, I immediately decided to donate 100% of my profits to a charity that you, the readers of this site, help me choose and decide on.

Here’s the catch: I won’t be lowering the price, but my hope is to help facilitate the giving of a couple thousand dollars this year through the sales of this shirt to those in need. So, if you’d like to make someone’s life better in a developing country, support research on clean water efforts or anything else we’re all passionate about (comment below), as a bonus, get what we think is a brilliant and fun limited edition t-shirt for your contribution.

If you make the donation and get the shirt, please leave comments here or via the feedback form on where you’d like to see the money go.

Full picture of the Moltov Yuletide t-shirt after the jump!

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What happens when you combine insanely soft t-shirts, quirky designs, yours truly and a couple of drinks during the holiday season? You get the Molotov Yuletide t-shirt, a super-duper fresh collaboration shirt designed by MomiMomi in celebration of our long friendship and good times together. And yes, those are Molotov Cocktails piled up high to keep you warm at this winter’s Yuletide festivals.

We only made 100 of these (more detailed pictures of the real deal coming very soon), so these puppies surely wont last. On sale now for $45 with free shipping in the USA and an additional $9.00 to ship to the UK for all you crazy brits out there. What are you waiting for, Go get yours now!

Shelta’s Ntrl Tiny Bubble Tee: Read JS Review | Buy It ($84, Shown as 1)

Swedish designers always do it better, right? Ultra comfy, designed by Swedish brand Ntrl Tlnt (Natural Talent). You can thank the weakness of the dollar for the price conversion on this puppy!

Chuck Anderson’s No Pattern T-Shirt: Read JS Review | Buy It ($24, Shown as 2)

Who doesn’t love Chucky? What happens when the No-Pattern legend does a t-shirt, well, duh, it’s good. Kinda-funky design printed on AAA fabric, worldwide shipping is $10 from an international designer of mystery.

You Are So Last Year: Read JS Review | Buy It ($25, Shown as 3 and 4)

Pretty much every t-shirt YASLY drops is worth owning, from the Monster Eyballz T-shirt to washed out Aztec Patterns. Always limited edition, always soft, always classic.

Beautiful Decay Winter 2007: Read JS Review | Buy It ($27, Not Shown)

One of the softest-wear-for-your-money t-shirts on the market, the Winter 2007 Beautiful Decay Line is incredible to look at (they’re like works of art), incredible to wear, and damned near impossible to get when the line sells out. Get yours quick, they will be gone fast.

Hecklewood’s Teenage Wasteland: Read JS Review | Buy It ($32, Shown as 5 and 8)

Hecklewood is our favorite up-and-coming line– we call them the Portland bad-asses, the little t-shirt line that could. We’ve been long time lovers as they’re always on top of the best fabrics and most ingenious printing methods. This new winter ‘Teenage Wasteland‘ line is too much, we had to choose two pictures to share!

Monsieur T Winter 2007: Read JS Review | Buy It ($28, Shown as 6)

An oldie, a goodie, who doesn’t love funny French-guy living in Oregon t-shirt humor? Designs are always creative and quirky, I’m a big fan.

Star Electric Eighty Eight: Read JS Review | Buy It ($28, Shown as 7)

Arguably one of the most impressive new lines I’ve seen in a very long time, point blank, SEEE.us is going places. Go, indulge, the selection is incredible. The Jane Fonda t-shirt is just too much!

Momimomi’s TEaA Party Subscription: Read JS Review | Buy It ($120-$360, Not Shown)

A JS mainstay, a family affair, an always-in-the-ring for top 5 anything t-shirt related, Momimomi reigns supreme. Best gift of the season? Give yourself or a loved one a subscription to the Momimomi TEeA party, a limited edition supremely soft t-shirt every month. Just awesome.

Are you ready for the JS08 Gift Guide? If you are, that’s a shame; we’re actually not doing one this year — we’re going to do even better. Over the next month you’re going to see itemized lists, broken down into separate categories for your easy perusal, and all you’ll need to do to get to those posts is hit the “gifts” tag at the bottom of any of them. If you have any suggestions for a list, feel free to hit us up at feedback at josh spear dot com. If you’re staying in today (instead of braving the malls and stores), we salute your intelligence. If not, try not to get arrested. Happy holidays!

We know that “The T-shirt” is a subject on which many of you have been jaded. Overdone, overproduced, overplayed (and we push the play button as much as anybody), t-shirts today are not the simple product they were five years ago. There’s too many, most of them suck, and, well, you’re almost too over it to care. However, in one of the last posts that you will find on JS about the omnipresent tee (okay, not really, we’re gonna keep it up, but less fervently and more selectively), we’re going to take it back to the beginning, when a baby-soft shirt was something that took years- not dollars- to create; when wearing an awesome tee made you feel arty instead of like a sellout; when dropping out of college to start a clothing company was still a (kinda) legit thing to do.

If you’ve been a JoshSpear.com reader for awhile, you are no stranger to momimomi. If you’ve only been a reader for the last three weeks, you should still be acquainted with the company, as they are one of a scant few clothing lines that have been making their way to our pages for the better part of two years. When I worked in a clothing boutique not so many years ago, momimomi was one of the only brands of tees to be kept, season after season, on rotation. The deal is simple: momimomi has been making buttery tees for a long time, and they’ve been killing it since day one. We write about them because we love them, because they’ve earned it, and sort of because…they started it. So, readers*, in one of the last full-length mentions of “fecking incredible t-shirts” you’ll be hearing on here for awhile, we give you momimomi…

(like everything they do – these answers were a collaboration between Danny and Olin, momimomi’s founders):

Joshspear.com: So Danny is a businessman by training and Olin is an Architect. What led you two into fashion design?

Danny & Olin: In the beginning, momimomi was a creative outlet for us. We had corporate 9 to 5’s that didn’t help stimulate our imaginations – so our plan was purely to use the t-shirt as a medium for expression. We didn’t have plans, initially, to enter the “fashion” game….and still stay somewhat on the periphery. READ MORE…

One of the most exciting times of my hectic mail openage each month is when my new Momimomi TEeA Party T-shirt arrives. Don’t remember? It’s the sexy subscription t-shirt program where every month I receive an uber-exclusive, sickeningly soft and beautifully designed t-shirt from the geniuses over at Momimomi. They’re now celebrating the first six months of t-shirt love, but there is still time to join the party with either 3, 6 or 12 month subscriptions. This first year’s run (6 months left) are of a mere 100 tees per design for us members. Pop by the site and check them out — it’s a great gift opportunity for yourself, if you’re a t-shirt hound like myself.

I know Josh is a huge fan of the Momi TEea Party, the super limited-edition t-shirt subscription service by the folks at momimomi. So, whilst perusing this morning’s JC Report, I came across a similar concept from offered by Swedish outfit, T-post. When you sign up, you’ll receive a new t-shirt every six weeks. While momimomi’s offerings aren’t thematic or related, T-post chooses current news topic to base their designs around, which is then explained on the interior tag. Prices run at 26 Euros or $US32, which, if you think about it, is about as much you’re going to be spending on that lame ironic tee from Urban Outfitters, anyways.

By now the poetic-winners of the Naughty Holiday Limerick Competition we held at the end of December last year are basking in glory with their second delivery of t-shirts– strutting around in classic TEeA Party Fashion. I just got word that there are about 30 seats left if you want to join for a 3, 6 or 12 month subscription of Momimomi t-shirts. What’s better than a Momimomi t-shirt? Thats easy, getting one in the mail every month to keep your wardrobe fresh and your friends guessing.

Congratulations to Aimee, our second week's winner in the Momimomi Naughty Holiday Limerick Competition. She will be receiving a 3 month subscription to the best t-shirt subscription program in the world! Without further adieu, the naughty winning words:

There was a young lady named Monica
who always felt naughty at Hanukkah
I envy the guests (who all saw her breasts)
when she cut up her bra to make yarmulkes.

Congratulations to Lee, our first week’s winner in the Momimomi Naughty Holiday Limerick Competition. He will be receiving a 3 month subscription to the best t-shirt subscription program in the world! Without further adieu, the winning words:

In a town with shirts galore,
There was one bare-breasted whore.
She flashed with pride
As she watched the tide
Carry her wardrobe from shore!

Just a light reminder that our Momimomi Contest is still going on– we’ll be choosing a handful of winners, each will receive a 3 month subscriptions to the best t-shirts in the world program (seriously, these shirts are some of my favorties, and I see dozens every week). We’ve received some hilarious entries so far and I can’t wait to pick the winners and share them with all of you. Read the details and get to work!

In order to help spread warm holiday cheer this season, JoshSpear.com is hosting the first Momi TEeA PARTY Naughty Limerick Competition. Entrants are required to submit no more than one naughty limerick, the content of which loosely fits under the broad theme of “the holidays”. While it’s not requisite that limericks be “dirty”, the judging staff does wish to express their belief that when it comes to a really good limerick, naughty is always better than nice…

By way of a brief refresher course in the art of the limerick, the follow example is provided.

‘there once was a boy named danny
who had a secret crush on his nanny
under the mistletoe he stood
holding his wood
waiting for some yule tide fanny’

Rules, Prizes, Deadlines:

• Only ONE limerick may be submitted per entrant.

• ONE winner will be chosen each week (12/15, 12/22. & 12/29) – submissions must be in by 9pm est on the dates listed.

• The winning limerick’s author will receive a 3-month subscription to the Momi TEeA PARTY.

• ONE honorable mention will also be chosen each week and receive a momimomi tee of their choice (availability permitting).

• Email your entries to momi[at]joshspear.com