<p>License plate cover here…we tried the window sticker but it was basically invisible…daughter’s car is plastered…in Orange…(like teriwitt’s)…go Cuse!!</p>
<p>around these parts, either I’m naive or stupid, it’s more a matter of pride than boasting…</p>
<p>my younger daughter has some schools on her list that NOBODY has ever attended from our town; if she ends up attending, that would be fun to have a sticker for…</p>
<p>We have stickers on our cars for schools that very few kids from around here attend. It helps me identify the right car in the grocery store parking lot. (Our kids picked schools no one here has heard of, but we drive the same cars everyone else does - silver Hondas.)</p>
<p>My husband came out of the hardware store once to find a woman waiting near his car. She introduced herself as an alumna of one of the schools (had been the student body president) and said she wanted to meet another alum - he apologized for being just a parent. :D</p>
<p>If window stickers are bragging, they’re a pretty innocuous manifestation of it, I think. When I see a car with Harvard, Duke, Cornell, and Yale Med on the back window, I’m not offended, though I do wonder how they can afford the gas.</p>
<p>OMG frazzled, my car is also a silver Honda and it is my stickers that help me find my car too! LOL!</p>
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<p>If someone asks you a direct question and they are offended by your truthful answer, I say screw 'em. Seriously. They are the one with the problem.</p>
<p>I met a lovely young woman in my work parking garage because I always saw the Sewanee sticker on her vehicle and one day I struck up a conversation on the elevator. She gave me some good information about the school (mine was a little outdated) and I have passed some of it along here on CC. Similarly, people have approached me after seeing the Penn decal. They want to know how Joe Paterno is doing.</p>
<p>We’ve got stickers on both cars–one in each corner of the rear windshield. I like supporting the schools ( !) and am proud to do so. In a weird way, it makes me feel an instant kinship when I see another car with the same schools. Doesn’t happen often as both our kids went to colleges not terribly well known around here.</p>
<p>When D went on to graduate school, I replaced her undergraduate sticker with the new one. And honestly, I felt a little guilty about tossing the old one. H never got around to it on his car. We have two very old cars which need replacing but I doubt we’ll replace the stickers since both kids have/will have graduated.</p>
<p>Yes and we do it so that we remember all the happy times our kids spent at their schools!</p>
<p>LOL on the silver honda… my bumper stickers help me find my car in the parking lot also. Maybe you’ll spot me in the parking lot of the local HEB grocery store - my vehicle has “Free Tibet”, “Equal Rights for All”, “Torchy’s Taco’s”, “KLRU”, “KMFA”, “Fiddler’s Green”, “Tapestry”, “Library READS” “Rice Mom”, “Have a Bob” bumper stickers (AND MORE) on it. Bumper stickers are like traveling political art - I love 'em! ;)</p>
<p>I really don’t feel we are bragging by putting stickers on our back window. D1 goes to a nice school, but it’s nice in our eyes, other people may not feel the same. I really do feel warm and fuzzy when I see the sticker in my back window when I am driving to and from work. That’s all it’s to me.</p>
<p>I am visiting D1 right now (by myself) because in a few months we maybe in a different country and may not have the same opportunity any more. I am going to put her school’s sticker on our new car as soon as we get to the new place. It’ll be a good reminder of her to us.</p>
<p>I think there is a difference between pride and boasting. We have a small XYU Dad on the rear window in the corner of my husband’s car, and a small XYU Mom on mine. When D2 starts in the fall, we will look to add another small one. We are proud. That is all.</p>
<p>They are cliche now, but when I was a young parent I enjoyed seeing the “My money and my child go to XYU” stickers.</p>
<p>Driving up the Taconic Parkway the other day I saw college stickers from Yale, Lehigh, SUNY Oswego, SUNY New Paltz, Vassar, Marist, Bard, NYU, Williams, MCLA, Union, SUNY Albany and several others I’ve now forgotten.</p>
<p>So, which cars were being driven by braggart parents?</p>
<p>No. My kids attend an expensive private school, and I think a sticker would come across as pretentious or obnoxious.</p>
<p>I saw an awesome Alabama decal yesterday. It was to celebrate the national championship and it was as big as half the rear tailgate of the SUV. Truly amazing!</p>
<p>Part of me thinks the people who think the sticker would come across as pretentious or obnoxious must have reason to worry about giving off that vibe. I never felt like anything I did regarding my kids’ schools was pretentious or obnoxious. Hey- I’ve paid my dues! :)</p>
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<p>I am worried about giving off that vibe, but probably not for the reasons you assume.</p>
<p>The kids put their respective stickers on the car they share. S’s sticker was on there first and was one of those on-the-inside-colorform ones that can’t really be seen from the outside. When D put her very visible decal on last year, S bought another more visible one for his school. Different schools but both school colors are red and white and now, both equally visible.</p>
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<p>Yea baby! Revenge is making its way to Louisville today.</p>
<p>H and D1 are going to the regionals in Syracuse; unfortunately they will be playing somewhere else. </p>
<p>Now, I will stop hi-jacking this thread and take it to another forum if I can’t control myself.</p>
<p>College stickers are very common in our area. I love looking at them and thinking “wow, there goes a Patriot League family (Bucknell, Lehigh, and Holy Cross stickers)” or "that is one heck of a gene pool (the 5 different Ivy stickers on our neighbor’s car…truly a brilliant family). </p>
<p>D is a proud alum who recently purchased her first new car. The color choice came down to a maroon or silver Honda (yes, another silver Honda). She based her final decision on which car color would look best with her college sticker. The maroon/gold sticker looks mighty snazzy on the maroon Honda.</p>
<p>I have only small amusing stickers on the car window of our 11 year old car; thus far I have 2 stickers, as the girls are still looking for just the right funny one for the other schools. Oh, and I have a magnet for one of the schools</p>
<p>I put the cling sticker in the back window the same day I sent in the deposit, but didn’t tell S–I wanted to see how long it would take before he noticed it. It took him a few days, but when he saw it he got the biggest smile! 
The only other thing on the car is a magnet saying “Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig.”</p>