Do You Wear T-Shirts With...

15 years ago

Cute (or otherwise) Sayings On Them?

I've never thought of purchasing one, but made a contribution over a month ago at an animal rescue group benefit, & they gave me one. It's got a cute & colorful "Bay To Barkers" (a take-off of the classic San Francisco "Bay to Breakers" marathon) logo picture with pups on the upper right-hand front side, then pictures of dogs on the back. Surprisingly, I get stopped with nice comments since I started wearing it. Being super-soft cotton, it's quite comfortable to wear.

My favorite thrift shop has one whole rack devoted to girls' & women's T-shirts, complete with written stuff, but I doubt that I'll purchase another.

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carol_in_california
15 years ago
No, but my sister loves them.
I wear tee shirts from the different National Parks we have visited.
linda_in_iowa
15 years ago
Sometimes. The one I want to get says "One cat short of the crazy cat lady".
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When I worked for the school district we used to buy rags from Goodwill for the repair shop. T-shirts and towels were preferred but sometimes if not specified they'd give us all sorts of clothes. All the secretaries would come running and go through the rag bags and grab clothes. You'd be surprised what they'd put in there. Perfectly good clothes - often like new and possibly new. But I also have one more idea. Check with your local school's auto shop. Well, any of the shop classes. Wood shop would use them too, most likely. Often use rags for staining wood and as tack cloths for prep work. They may well want them for rags. Help out the schools too. Even electronic repair shops, computer repair shops and the like would likely need them. When I had my shop we always washed down the computers before returning them. Would have really appreciated a bunch of t-shirts rather than using paper towels all the time. Otherwise, I like the mechanic idea too. But I'm sure Goodwill would take them. Possibly Salvation Army. Frankly, don't count out the local Community Action programs. Maybe you don't think they're very good, but if a poor hard-working parent can't afford any clothes for their kids, what you might think is bad could be a joy for them. Don't be embarrassed to ask. I'm sure you'll advise them up-front as to condition and if they say no thank you, that's fine, but you wanted to offer, just in case. Another thought - any small engine repair shops? Hardware store or something? Is there a neighbor who does shadetree mechanic repairs or the like? Your local city or county probably has a maintenance shop for repairing trucks and vehicles who would probably want them too. Save a few taxpayer dollars that way too. No matter what or where they go, it's a nice time of year to think of a donation of any type to any worthwhile place.
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vala55
15 years ago
Linda, I love that one.
kacram
15 years ago
I made one to wear to chemo
CANCER SUCKS
is the lovely saying. lol
duluthinbloomz4
15 years ago
No, wouldn't buy any. But I do have quite a few of them with a subtle placement of the company I worked for's name and logo- they were always giveaways to staff. They're nice with shorts or jeans.

Pretty soon the awful "World's greatest (insert favorite relative here)" sweatshirts, etc. with the usual cornball Christmas motif will be everywhere. I would never give one and, please God, never get one. I concede though, they do seem to be popular.
sue_va
15 years ago
Not a T-Shirt, but I have a white Sweat shirt with a saying on the front.

It says, in a nice script "I want it all, but I'd settle for some chocolate." I wear it to a picnic or something like that.

Other than that, I don't like pictures or cutesy stuff on my T-shirts.

Sue
Jodi_SoCal
15 years ago
I don't think I've ever owned one. In fact pretty much the only time I wear t-shirts at all is when I'm doing house work. But ... if I did wear one it would read ...

So many books ...
So little time.

or

It's a small world ...
but I wouldn't want to paint it.
lynn_d
15 years ago
I have a few of them but not many and I don't usually wear them out of the house. I have one that I wear during football season, it says "Watch your Beagle, Vick's an Eagle!" pertaining to Michael Vick's dog fighting.
cheryl_ok
15 years ago
Yes I do wear them, some of them only around the farm, not proper for town...
Like, " I wish I were a monkey so I could throw poop at you" Hehe
I just bought a new sweatshirt that says "Stop the slaughter" It has 2 pumpkins on it.
I love silly sayings
lydia1959
15 years ago
I used to wear those type of tee shirts often, not so much anymore. I do have a new beer one that I got to choose what it said on the back... so I put "I see drunk people". Thought it would be good to wear on bar nights. :-)
nicole__
15 years ago
I was over charged for my purchase & was owed a credit of .50cents & they gave me the option of picking out a T-shirt instead...it says, "Never trust anyone under 14,000 feet." Then on the back there's a map of ALL the mountains in Colorado over 14K.
wildchild
15 years ago
Since t shirts and jeans are my entire wardrobe I have quite a few. Many are swag, some were gifts and some I've bought. I have a lot of Red Hat tees too. I have a kid's wardrobe. I don't need grown up clothes anymore and never much cared for fashion anyway once I was out of my teens/early early early 20s. (60s/early70s). After that fashion took a strange frumpy turn and in my opinion has pretty much stayed that way except for some retro that has returned which I don't look good in anymore. Afraid my hot pant and mini skirt days are long behind me.

Now if I were into fashion today and could pull it off i would be totally steampunk. That I find very cool.
liz
15 years ago
I rarely wear t-shirts with anything on them unless its my company...then I wear them with pride...BUT...I bought two last month and have been wearing them when it's chilly...

the first one

the second one

they both apply to me sooo bad!
blitzyblond_protege
15 years ago
My ex bought me a T-shirt that said "Do you realize the first three letters of DIET spell DIE? I got a lot of comments on that; but mostly I don't wear sayings. Definitely, nothing advertising products. l.marie
pammyfay
15 years ago
Nope, not since I got b**bs during adolescence! Those darn things make T-shirt sayings a little harder to read, and I don't need anybody trying to read them close up!
kayjones
15 years ago
I wear t shirts all the time, but none with cute sayings or advertising on them. Some of mine have U.S. flag-related images on them, a couple have Jesus-related sayings or images on them.

I do have one raggedy Harley Davidson t shirt that I rarely wear, and only when I ride on the Harley.
nola_anne
15 years ago
I don't wear them, UNLESS my kids/grandkids get them for me.

The ones that are hard to resist are sayings that bring a smile or have some personal meaning for me...those make great throw pillows in a family room, a kid's or teen's room or even to take in the car!

They also make great tote bags...just sew shut at the bottom and cut the sleeves off and leave the neck for the handle (have to have a diagonal seam from shoulder to undearm, for that, though.)

nola anne
williamsburgjane
15 years ago
I wear the Harley Davidson T-shirts we have gotten from various places we go.
Marilyn Sue
15 years ago
No, I never wear tee shirts of any kind.

Sue
OklaMoni
15 years ago
Nicole, I love what yours says. I don't "advertise" on T-shirts. But I do wear my cycling t's, that I get when participating in cycling events. Also have a few Master Gardeners t's.

Moni
dotmom
15 years ago
I don't have any myself, but I'm on the mailing list for oodles of catalogs and like to look through them. one got a while ago had so many funny printed T's. One I would have liked to get by Bro-in-law said, I'm retired...your not, Na-na-na-na-na-na. Except it didn't come in his size. Another one I saw, A guy was standing on a desk peeing in his bosses face and the caption said....Let me guess, you won the lottery.
casey_nfld
15 years ago
No I don't. I rarely wear t-shirts.
nancywi
15 years ago
I have a t-shirt & sweatshirt that say "My favorite people call me Grandma". Also a sweatshirt from my son-in-law that says "Worlds Greatest Mother-in-law" which I only wear when I know I will see him.
country_bumpkin_al
15 years ago
I have 1 that I wear a lot. It says "This is NOT the Life I Ordered"! I bought it not long after my husband died..it says what I feel. I also have 1 that says "Let Me Drop Everything and Handle YOUR Problem"
monica_pa Grieves
15 years ago
Never.
chisue
15 years ago
Nope. Not with sayings. Not without sayings. Not with logo's. None. (I never understood why I would pay to wear clothing that advertises anything either. Shouldn't they pay me?)
joyfulguy
15 years ago
Shouldn't they sell the shirts with the company name/logo ...

... for half price??

(Instead of double ... due to their so-called ... and much vaunted ... great rep)?! And made, in almost all cases, for peanuts ... by (almost) slave labour.

ole joyful

P.S. I have one, don't know where it appeared from, as I haven't been anywhere within a dozen miles of that agency, captioned, "U.S. NAVY".

There's one put out by my Dad's family, that have had an annual family reunion for over 110 years ... and one from Mom's, that began reunions every three years, about 30 years ago (most recent one was at brother's farm in Saskatchewan). Wear 'em to the gathering.

o j

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