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I don't know why you were downvoted. I'm the same; I still wear the clothes I got as swags when I was in college a decade ago. I've maybe bought a pair jeans since then, when my older ones didn't fit anymore.

During my early government grant years, I did not buy new t-shirts nor jackets. It's almost a requirement for every conference or new grant program to order shirts. I even got one heck of a winter jacket because someone in DC decided we needed winter jackets. I guess it all constituted acceptable publicity.

Same. I was able to snag at least 1-2 work shirts or other swag from vendors, conferences, etc.

Puppet (the server software) seemed to go hard on this and I think I ended up with 5-6 shirts even through we never rolled it out into production. I mostly wear em to the gym or use em for sleeping.

There's a clothes donation bin by my office where I immediately toss any swag I get.

I try very hard to to wear any clothes with logos. For some technical clothes it can't really be avoided, so much of my winter/snowboarding/climbing/other sporting gear has logos, sadly.