I have about 150 t-shirts. I have about 50 I call “keepers”, these are my “dress” t-shirts, ones from foreign countries or just simply works-of-art. Then there’s about 50 “PC” t-shirts, like biker t-shirts if I’m going to be around bikers, rock-n-roll t-shirts for rock-n-roll concerts, etc. The other 50 are my “beaters”, the ones I wear around the house or when I am doing dirty work.
I used to do a lot of charity fun runs. Every single one included a T-shirt if you participated. I built up a lot that way. I also got some from high school. If I participated in some extra curricular activity I got one. Mainly I think the powers that were thought it was a great idea to keep track of all of us by making us all look alike since we didn’t have uniforms. Oh, and of course every big event, like the 1991 eclipse, would spawn dozens of T-shirts which suddenly became cheap stocking stuffers. I think what really sent me over the top though was my “Never saw a deal she could drop a $100 on” Grandmother. 10 T-Shirts for $20? I’ll buy 50 for everyone! Only no one would want any so I’d end up with them all.
Reading your post above I remember something I forgot:
I did “ow” a few T shirts a few years ago yet I never really “had” them. They were only ordered to give my support to a message board I participated on at the time. I don’t know what has become of the poor things since then…
As for your univ.T shirts. That is of course the same at the (EU) univs I’m familiar with. You could have T shirts advertizing for the univ itself, for every faculty, for fakbars, student unions etc… I never considered those to be things to really wear. Just some form of extension of “membership card”. My friends and others I knew didn’t wear any of them although they might have bought/receive them.
Salaam. A
I must have well over 100, the vast majority of which I have obtained from charity bike rallies. You know, I have got to learn how to throw out the old ones!!
I went and counted and have 77. My fave is the concert tee from Public Image Limited’s tour for the release “album”- its simply black and says “black concert tee shirt” on it.
I have maybe 5 and I cut out the necks of all of them, including one that I sleep in “Nurse Big Dog: Your Butt Is Mine”.
About 20. All but 5 or so are ads for my theater company.
Around 30. I go through most of them as I wear a t-shirt pretty much every day… if not as a stand alone, then as an undershirt (especially the long sleeved ones in the winter).
Most of them are bought at my favorite clothing store… Value Village.
All told, I probably have about 50. 20 of those are the ones I never wear out of the house, and many of them I don’t bother wearing at all. These include old soccer tournament t-shirts, random sports team t-shirts, touristy t-shirts, and odd assorted white or tie-dye t-shirts.
The rest I’ll wear out. No more than 5 or so of them have any kind of writing or other image on them, and these are mostly folk festival shirts, school shirts, or shirts for other institutions that I support. Exactly one shirt is has a corporate label - my old faded Arizona Jeans Co. shirt. I hardly wear that one. All the rest of my shirts are solid color, blank shirts. Blue, brown, green, red, whatever. As long as they aren’t ads. I hate feeling like a walking advertisement for anyone or anything. It’s something I refuse to do.
You made me count them all. All told, 87. 33 of them are various NASCAR t-shirts from the past 15 years or so and are stashed away with 3 other souviner t-shirts. 16 are in a stack on top of my dresser, I haven’t worn any of them in months, it may be time to give them away. 32 are packed into my two t-shirt drawers, 2 are in the dirty clothes hamper and I have one one. 24 of the 32 in my drawers and both dirty ones are NASCAR t-shirts too. Yep, I could head south and fit in perfectly as a typical southern redneck. I even made a list of them all too.
Dale Earnhardt, 5
Mark Martin, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, 4
Tony Stewart, 3
Rusty Wallace, Terry Labonte, Bill Elliott, Ricky Rudd, Kevin Harvick, Sterling Marlin, Dale Jarrett, 2
And singles of Steve Park, Mike Skinner, Johnny Benson, Darrell Waltrip, Michael Waltrip, Ryan Newman,Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte, Ward Burton, Jerry Nadeau, Davey Allison, Robby Gordon, Ricky Craven, Ken Schrader, Elliott Sadler, Jamie McMurray, Richard Petty, Kyle Petty, Kurt Busch, Jeff Burton, and Jason Keller. And I still have a long list of other drivers I don’t have yet too.
Actually counted… I underestimated by nearly half. I have around 50 t-shirts.
Without counting, let me just consult my memory.
White: 3
Red: 2
Yellow: 1
Blue: 2
Brown: 1
Black: 1
If we really don’t allow anything with buttons to count as a T-shirt, then it appears I have ten.
2 green ones from Eddie Bauer
Paul Green School of Rock Music
The Bigger Lovers – Honey from the Hive cover art
Olde City Tattoo
Philly Tattoo Arts Convention 2004
A Jinxed T that features a bloody hammer and the legend “She was asking for it.”
Another Jinxed with a coffin on the front
Obviously I need to get crackin’. Jinxed T shirts are Philly-made, quality screen-printed Ts.