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We want your old T-shirts
- jebus989 13y agoGiven they're holding conferences etc. I imagine companies would be willing to make a decent donation to the IA if they used their branded cushions? At the very least I'm sure people like Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation would send t-shirts.
- vitno 13y agowoah. Getting (the awesome) Mozilla t-shirts is hard enough as is. It takes effort even when working there. :P /me is sitting in my living room rocking a Rust T-shirt right now.
- SwellJoe 13y agoI'm currently wearing the Firefox shirt I got from donating $100 to the NYT ad campaign. It's looking pretty rough...I guess it's been eight or nine years. I've been meaning to order up a new one. It's always been a favorite.
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoEspecially after a logo redesign and they need to get rid of old stock, :p
- voltagex_ 13y agoIf anyone wants to organise a bulk send from Australia, get in touch - I've got a few shirts I could send over and the local LUG might, too.
- 3rd3 13y agoIsn’t T-shirt fabric too fragile for seat cushions?
- darkstar999 13y agoYeah, this is a silly idea.
- lignuist 13y agoI thought the same. I recently saw a jeans couch and think that this fabric is much better for this purpose.
- maxmem 13y agoYeah, it's not really going to hold up for very long.
- SwellJoe 13y agoFrom the sound of it, it's not going to get a huge amount of use. Movie nights, events, etc. And, they look easy to make. So, if they have a lot of T-shirts, and if the interior foam holds up OK, they can just rewrap them in new T-shirts as they wear out. I'm sure it'll be fine. Cotton is pretty resilient. I have T-shirts that are more than ten years old and still mostly intact.
- ctdonath 13y agoSupply is endless and turnover may be desirable.
- joeblau 13y agoI just bagged up a ton of old t-shirts to donate. I'll have to stop by this weekend and drop them off.
- mokkol 13y agoReally cool! A pity that I live in Spain. I guess it is just the same price sending as actual buying those tshirts in the states.
- brianbreslin 13y agoMy local goodwill has received hundreds of swag shirts from me over the years. I like to think the local poor in Miami are benefiting from the dot com boom at least indirectly.
- jevinskie 13y agoGoodwill has an appeal far larger than just the poor!
- marincounty 13y agoI have huge questions about Goodwill. 1. Why are your district managers paid so much money? 2. Why don't you prosecute store managers who have stolen, embezzled thousands of dollars? 3. I heard your Marin Store has fired at least three managers(in 12 years)for theft. One was hired back? 4. Why don't you tell prospective donators that their donated items won't stay at the donated store? 5. Why do you only keep convicts on for one year? 6. Why don't you wash all donated clothes? Your employees are telling the public everything is washed. 7. I really question your nonprofit, and just who benefits.
- ctdonath 13y agoInflammatory off-topic.
- d23 13y agoAre we trying to suppress any critical sub-comments? I've never heard these complaints, and it doesn't look as though it's the only thing the user is posting. Seems interesting to me.
- ctdonath 13y agoI rarely ever make such criticism, but that post seemed unusually detailed and unusually disconnected for a tangent. The post is also directed at a "you" who has nothing to do with this thread or source link. Fine as a dedicated thread or relevant tangent, but this thread is about giving shirts to a museum and he's listing prolific grievances with and directed to the leadership of an unrelated charity.
- frankdenbow 13y agoWe did a few clothing drive parties and had folks send us old startup swag to give to goodwill (and a Jamaican orphanage). Can definitely contribute to this also!
- city41 13y agoCushions will help a little bit. But pews are simply awful for sitting in for long periods of time no matter what.
- jacobolus 13y agoSitting for long periods of time is awful, no matter what. This is why church services typically have people alternate between sitting, standing, kneeling, etc.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoHeh, anyone that worked at Apple or SGI in the 90's could probably cover their entire request :-) Friends there used to joke that first thing a project did was design the t-shirt and print them, if it was a "cool" t-shirt, only then could the engineering begin :-)
- ecesena 13y agoIs there a calendar of the events? It could be an occasion to physically bring T-shirts.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y agoAnd here I thought they were starting an archive of historical t-shirt designs.
- ctdonath 13y agoMy reaction too. I have some classics: "This Shirt Is A Munition / RSA in 4 lines of PERL", "RSA It's Just An Algorithm", "DOOM II", "Matrix Special Effects Crew", "World of Goo" (Shirt Got Game), and others. I know they're worth something both $$$ and history. Wish I knew how to find a buyer or museum.
- gus_massa 13y agoIdea: Perhaps they can scan them before making the cushions.
- kimonos 13y agoGreat idea!