How many tshirts do you have? Oldest?

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8 years ago 07/27/2015 4:01pm EDT

Im sure some of you old(er) timers have some significant collections. I thought of it today because I was organizing my big closet today which has various bins and I was trying to get the loose ones put away and there were just a fairly amazing number. I didnt count but just figuring if you accumulate 6-8ish shirts a year which is not a crazy number in 25 years you have 200 shirts. That is an absurd number lol but I feel like im in that area(Im not counting large numbers of repeats I have a big bag of race for the cure volunteer shirts etc). Also its hard to throw away a race shirt some get lost from time to time but generally most of them have some value.

I know the oldest I have is 1987. Im certain many of you can beat that heh.

8 years ago 07/27/2015 4:05pm EDT

re: hannsen

Are you talking race t-shirts only? We recently moved and I cleaned out the basement and threw away 93 old race t-shirts. Everything from the 5K to the marathon. I had them in plastic bags put away since I wasn't wearing them anymore. I had at least one from HS which would have be 1987 or 88.

I probably have at least 5 - 7 more races shirts that I still wear.

No, I'm not a hoarder.

(anymore)

8 years ago 07/27/2015 4:41pm EDT

re: hannsen

Not all races give out shirts. I ran a race where instead they gave out socks.

8 years ago 07/27/2015 4:45pm EDT

re: hannsen

Oldest: 1979 Drake Relays. There will be many here with older I'm sure.

Never counted all the track meet & road race shirts over the years but still give some away at a special summer practice/workout each year. The kids wear them at school with pride because they know nobody else will ever have that one. Always have a year on them and often from some other state or part of the world.

8 years ago 07/27/2015 4:46pm EDT

re: hannsen

~25/1985 NCAA DIII XC Champs

8 years ago 07/28/2015 9:12am EDT

re: hannsen

1976 Enn Sellick's USSR team racing singlet.

8 years ago 07/28/2015 9:21am EDT

re: hannsen

No idea. I've probably given away or thrown away more than I still have. I still have a few dating back to the early 90s. I've gotten into the habit of refusing the shirt when I pick up my race number on race morning. I just don't need any more. They're white elephants to me at this point.

8 years ago 07/28/2015 9:28am EDT

re: teenage wasteland

I'm 27 and I have a couple t-shirts that I got in 2001 when I was 13 in middle school. I think that's pretty good for someone my age. They aren't race t-shirts though. I was playing sports back then.

8 years ago 07/28/2015 9:30am EDT

re: hannsen

Not a t-shirt. but i have an old highschool singlet from the early 80s, as well and one of Kim Jong-il's singlets(the long jumper, not the dictator) from early 80's I believe.

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