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<p>We have a friend (adult, with kids who are still young) who collects T shirts from different colleges when he travels and wears them to the gym and around for casual wear. Why not?</p>
<p>I have college stickers on my car because nobody around here has heard of the colleges my kids attend so I do it to give some free advertising for them.</p>
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<p>I guess it depends what you mean by affiliation. When I thought I was going to Penn, I did put a Penn sticker on my car (Cutlass. See how old I am?) and it stayed there because, well, it was dumb of me not just to attach the sides. And I absolutely know that I wore a Penn t-shirt and/or UVA shorts on occasion when I was at NU, even though I didn’t really have an “affiliation” other than having liked those schools. But I do agree it was kind of weird for me to have the Penn sticker on my car. I just got overly excited!</p>
<p>As an adult, I don’t even have a t-shirt from my alma mater, but I do have one from my niece’s college in California (that I’ve never even visited). My H wears sweatpants from his sister’s college (yeah, they are that old, LOL) that he bought when he attended her graduation. Does that count as “affiliation” if a family member or friend went there?</p>
<p>Around here it is extremely common to have stickers, decals, flags, welcome mats, license plate frames, etc of colleges that you do not or did not attend because they support the sports teams.</p>
<p>Well, this has nothing to do with the topic but I recently saw a bumper with all sorts of “music-interest” stickers. My favorite?–> “My other violin is a Stradivarius.”</p>
<p>^^ woody, that is a WINNER!</p>
<p>We have NOT put it on our cars as there are some police officers or others who might possibly target a car bearing it (somehow expensive private schools that have good football teams stir up strong feelings with some folks). Don’t really need to deal with this and the kids know we are proud of them. They both attend the same U & we wear the logowear they bought us. They wear the logowear they bought as well. Don’t believe S put a sticker on his car either. </p>
<p>We didn’t put the kids’ HS sticker on because we had mixed feelings about the school, since they demonstrated mixed feelings toward us.</p>
<p>H is of the “invisible is better than agile” school anyway.</p>
<p>I think there was a thread on this topic a couple of years ago , and then my answer was no…then my husband and I took his brother and wife up to Boston when they were visiting from Sweden…without me knowing, he bought me a " Northteastern University Mom " sticker and put it on my window…then when my older girl saw it, she affixed an " Emerson College " sticker ( above the NEU sticker ) ;)</p>
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Rodney, I got it years ago at the skate shop in a local rink, back when I used to be a rink rat. Those were the days…</p>
<p>I’ve actually never owned an item of any kind with a school name/logo on it–not a class ring, a tshirt, a binder or a car sticker–except an umbrella I received when I attended my 15th college reunion. And since our class color is yellow, and the umbrella is yellow and white, you really cannot tell what that seal is!</p>
<p>It’s probably too late to start now. 
Maybe if I go back to school myself…</p>
<p>Yup…have my kids’ school on the back, and my college. After DS gets through a couple of months in college (if he makes it that far!) I’ll put that one on, too.</p>
<p>Paying3, let’s make some of those stickers. We could make a bundle!! “my other car is Princeton, Vanderbilt, Hamilton” whatever!</p>
<p>Mafool - I once told this story before - but I know why she adds the CT. part. The name Yale is not easy to understand. If you say Harvard, Princeton, nice two syllable words tht start with a consonant. People invariably don’t seem to know what you are saying. </p>
<p>So - a woman we know told a funny story. Shortly after her son was admitted to Yale, she ran into an acquaintance she hadn’t seen for a long time. The acquaintance asked the mother what Marty was doing these days. Mom said he was going to Yale.</p>
<p>The acquaintance responded, “JAIL? Your Marty is going to JAIL?”</p>
<p>Anyway, there are some downsides to going to Yale.</p>
<p>I keep a sticker of our flagship U on our van. It shoes our support of older DD’s school and our unending love of PSU football.</p>
<p>For younger D, not college sticker but a small sticker of her residential college.</p>
<p>wnp- you may be right! I prefer, however, to think that she is going out of her way to not seem “snooty” in our little town.</p>
<p>Oh, I think that is also probably true! By the way, still feeling the effects from painkiller they gave me when doc removed wisdom teeth - should be posting</p>
<p>en narcotics veritas</p>
<p>Ouch. Sorry about those wisdom teeth. One piece of advice from someone who had 4 wisdom teeth extracted, returned to the dorm, and was dependent on the 70’s vending machines: Mounds Bars are NOT a good option.</p>
<h2>^ooof! Mafool! Mounds Bars. Sympathetic pain attack for you.</h2>
<p>We applied our stickers to impose maximum pressure on our youngest to attend college.</p>
<p>S-1, we put the sticker center-back windshield, because after all, he’s the center of the universe.</p>
<p>When D made her choice, H wanted to put that decal underneath S-1’s, but I said no.
Put in on the left (expressing political leanings of that school BTW). </p>
<p>This left a groaning yawning space on the far right of windshields. S-2 knew he had to correct the balance, which he did a few years later</p>
<p>Now the cars ride smooth, steady, and older than ever!!</p>
<p>It wasn’t the almonds (are there almonds on Mounds? I don’t remember) The problem was the shredded coconut …I won’t go into greater detail.</p>
<p>My parents had all the stickers from my sisters’ colleges and grad schools on their (old) car: Wesleyan, Barnard, Brown, U of Chicago Medical School, Yale Law…</p>
<p>But then I went to Harvard. And there it ended. No sticker, no shirts, no nothing. My mother allowed me to buy her pens and a glass that said “Leverett House.” That way she could be reminded of me without invoking The Name.</p>
<p>I think I’ve found the solution, which could be applied to car stickers too, although presently they only sell shirts:</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Chinese T-Shirt : The Harvard Shop](<a href=“http://www.theharvardshop.com/buy/THS-532]Harvard”>http://www.theharvardshop.com/buy/THS-532)</p>
<p>Mafool - being 58 and getting your wisdom a little like being in college and returning to the dorm - minus the vending machine. DH is a great guy, but the cold compresses were not being delivered on a regular basis. Can’t complain too much - I got a smoothie and scrambled eggs made for me. Just not the same as having your mom around. </p>
<p>Actually, my mom wanted me to come to their place so she could pamper me. Yesterday at around 2, I was wishing I had taken her up on it.</p>
<p>I am really feeling great today. The bummer is, I had banked on two days of just goofin off with a swollen face, doesn’t look like it is going to happen :)</p>