<p>I don’t have any stickers on my car. DH has the whole collection of kids schools stickered to his bumper.</p>
<p>I put lots of stickers on my car. It helps me identify it in parking lots. </p>
<p>Oh, and stickers aren’t bragging. It’s pride!</p>
<p>I am with somemom - I can’t put my D’s college sticker on my car since I would have to peel off the puffypaint seahorse she made and put on it when I bought the car, when she was in THIRD GRADE. Now let’s just hope the jalopy lasts so I can at least help out a little with med school…</p>
<p>I saw a Dubyuhnell sticker on a car up here the other day and cracked up laughing (must be a W&L lacrosse recruit lol)</p>
<p>I have a license plate holder with my own alma mater and a sticker with D’s college. Too bad the sticker is a dark color, on my tinted windows it’s almost invisible.</p>
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<p>I didn’t worry about direct question situations, but I thought a “Yale” decal would be misconstrued as prideful or bragging. I have no problem with other people doing it, but I just didn’t feel comfortable. That said, I still have a license frame that says “We’re proud of XX School” – the excellent public elementary school my kids attended – even though it’s been years since I had a kid in elementary school. I guess that proclaimed pride in the school community, rather than pride in my kid – partly because of the message on it.</p>
<p>As a Longhorn living in Maine, I feel OBLIGATED to have a metal Longhorn emblem on the back of both cars! Every once in awhile, I meet another Longhorn this way. I have lots of sweatshirts and caps with TEXAS on them, too. Even though I’ve lived here almost 24 years, I’ll always be a Texan. When I talk, people still look at me and say, “You’re not from around here, are you?” :-)</p>
<p>MOWC, LOL on the questions about Joe Paterno! I have to admit, I used to get the two schools confused.</p>
<p>College stickers seem to be much more common in the Northeast than in the Midwest. In the Midwest they seem to be used to simply identify their school rather than to brag about it. How else could you explain the “Academy of Court Reporting” decals I see from time to time?</p>
<p>I roll my eyes whenever I see one of those bumper stickers that says “My son was on the honor roll at XXXX School.” I’ve always wanted to get a bumper sticker that says “My son was named Inmate of the Month at Jackson Prison.”</p>
<p>I do have a license plate frame proclaiming a college, but it celebrates MY old college not my Ds’. It’s a mid-tier UC, so no one is likely to take offense or think I’m bragging.</p>
<p>No stickers of any kind on my car. Just don’t like stickers of any kind–college, political, whatever.</p>
<p>For our entire married life our vehicles were sticker free, until last Spring.
For some reason, we decided to “sticker up”. We both have a decals on both sides of our rear windshields.<br>
S1 and S2 both have two sch. decals on their trucks and sch. license plates on the front. </p>
<p>The cool thing is that two stickers take care of our family of four.
DH and S1 went to same college and now S2 is at my college.
Both are instate publics so will never be mistaken as “brag stickers”.</p>
<p>It’s weirdly enjoyable to have them back there. Makes me think of my kids when I see them. When I see another car with the same sticker, I always wonder if they are noticing ours too.
Makes you wanna roll down the window and yell “Go team”,lol.</p>
<p>I also had a license plate frame that said “U.S. Navy…Navy Mom” but DH removed it because our state is outlawing license plate frames that cover part of the state name on the license tag (and froom what I can see,most do). Are the cops really gonna pull people over and ticket them for a license plate frame?..grrrr.</p>
<p>sort of same topic:
I have to laugh when I see vehicles with stickers on the windows but they dont apply them properly…they forget to peel away the clear part so that just the sticker is on the window…then when its been on there for awhile, the clear part yellows and you can’t see the “beautiful” sticker hidden below.
I’ve already shown people how to fix it…my slight ocd :)</p>
<p>I have one on my car now but it should soon be removed as it has faded -S2 in grad school now…but still at same school as undergrad.</p>
<p>I have the mascot sticker. It is tiny and is stuck in the corner. I only got it because it makes me smile when I see it. Not because our DS is in college, but because of the the mascot. FEAR THE TURTLE! Now who fears turtles? You just got to laugh at that. Next yr I will put on our DD’s mascot, and will smile at that too… a Hokie! Yep, castrated turkeys are so frightening! I told our youngest if he chooses a college with a real mascot, I probably won’t put it on because it won’t make me laugh if it was something like a Ram, but who knows maybe he will go to Syracuse, and then of course I would have to put it on, because who fears Oranges!</p>
<p>No stickers on any cars – just don’t like them.</p>
<p>But they are hardly “bragging.” The reaction to a Harvard (etc) sticker on a car as “bragging” says far more about the onlooker and his or her insecurities than it does about the car owner / driver.</p>
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<p>Uh, I think they know what they’re doing. They’re just exposing the sticky part on the very ends and not the middle so they don’t crap up the car with the adhesive. I don’t blame them. Whenever I’ve had to have a sticker for work, I’ve done the same thing. Why would I apply the full sticker when I could just peel away enough to make it stick, and then it’s easily removable?</p>
<p>I want one that says: “My Other Car is Princeton.”</p>
<p>No stickers, but the spot where a front plate would go if our state had front plates looked pretty naked, so I put a Duke plate up there. Wonder what I will do in May after graduation. Probably no change…inertia is powerful.</p>
<p>Stickers draw attention; they say, “look at me…” Why would anyone want to solicit the attention of strangers on the highway? I always look at cars with lots of stickers and wonder why they want to be a rolling billboard for whatever school, cause, club, etc. </p>
<p>Doesn’t anyone worry about drawing the attention of some nutcase who happens to not like or disagrees with your particular sticker? I think it’s best to be somewhat anonymous on the highway. Perhaps I’m too paranoid.</p>
<p>paying3. That’s hysterical.<br>
I have my own StateU Sticker on my car, and a S. Carolina sticker, because I live for Pawley’s Island one week a year. Last year, we pulled my National Merit Scholar daughter out of college due to illness and she is attending Community College close to home, where she is carrying a 4.0. I am proudly proclaiming her efforts. They have been hard fought. Everyone expected HER to be the Harvard kid, but our lives all take different paths for different reasons, for reasons we may not yet understand. So Community College, RAH!!!</p>
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<p>I do, too. I don’t get buying a decent car and putting a bumper sticker or other sticker on it (unless required to for a work parking permit or the like). I don’t put clingy adhesive stickers that leave residue on the windows of my house; not sure why I’d do so on my car.</p>
<p>I bought a white car because it looks so cute with all my stickers…of course, I intend to drive this car until the wheels fall off…I’m not too concerned about market value…If I were, I would def vote against stickers :)</p>