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We want your old T-shirts

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Heh, 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 :-)

My 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.

Goodwill has an appeal far larger than just the poor!

I 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.

Inflammatory off-topic.

Are 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.

I 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.

trickle down works!

And here I thought they were starting an archive of historical t-shirt designs.

My 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.

Idea: Perhaps they can scan them before making the cushions.

Isn’t T-shirt fabric too fragile for seat cushions?

Yeah, this is a silly idea.

I thought the same. I recently saw a jeans couch and think that this fabric is much better for this purpose.

Yeah, it's not really going to hold up for very long.

From 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.

Supply is endless and turnover may be desirable.

Given 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.

woah. 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.

I'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.

Especially after a logo redesign and they need to get rid of old stock, :p

If 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.

Cushions will help a little bit. But pews are simply awful for sitting in for long periods of time no matter what.

Sitting for long periods of time is awful, no matter what.

This is why church services typically have people alternate between sitting, standing, kneeling, etc.

I just bagged up a ton of old t-shirts to donate. I'll have to stop by this weekend and drop them off.

Is there a calendar of the events? It could be an occasion to physically bring T-shirts.

We 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!

Really 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.

Great idea!

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