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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 27, 2008 21:25:05 GMT -6
I've got a Sox hat that is a few years old. It is black. It has about a half inch white rim around the bottom and a very rancid color on the underside of the bill. Ma says it's time to toss it and get a new one. But this ball cap is luckier than any Cubs hat in Chicago. It won a World Series. It doesn't look or smell great, but it's hard to toss it out and it complements my Rob Mackowiak jersey nicely. What says the board? How old is too old?
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Post by The Flying Spaghetti Monster on Mar 27, 2008 21:51:46 GMT -6
Keep it, but it is time to send him down to Saturday Honey-dues and chore time; running to the hardware store; stopping by the pub on the way home; painting; mowing the law; cleaning gutters, etc.
Time to start spreading the love with another cap.
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Post by The Bluzmn on Mar 28, 2008 5:41:04 GMT -6
I have a Cubs hat that is at least 10 years old and has been to probably 200 Cubs games at Wrigley Field (I used to have season tickets), and also to games at Miller Park, Busch Stadium, Enron Field and Sox Park. I refuse to part with it.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Mar 28, 2008 6:09:08 GMT -6
I stopped wearing ball caps whne I was about 20, when I realized that I would never acctually be a baseball player, so I should stop dressing like one. I seriously do not understand why this form a dress up is accepted by society.
Plus, I have done extensive research, and if you spend more than 30% of your waking time wearing a hat, you are probably a d nozzle.
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Post by 101 on Mar 28, 2008 6:09:20 GMT -6
See, women just don't get the whole baseball cap thing do they? I have the cap shown below. Probably about 6 or 7 years old. Fit's great and feels good, but it's badly faded and sweat stained from years of use. I may not wear it to Kinnick bince it looks pretty bad, but for washing the car, doing crap in the yard, etc. , hell yes. I dont' care if it's shredded to strings, if you like a cap, you have every right to keep it as long as you want.
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Post by scotthawk on Mar 28, 2008 7:03:21 GMT -6
A Sox cap should never be thrown away, especially under pressure from someone else. I agree that it should become the lawnmowing or home improvement cap.
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Post by hawkeyescott on Mar 28, 2008 7:33:16 GMT -6
I stopped wearing ball caps whne I was about 20, when I realized that I would never acctually be a baseball player, so I should stop dressing like one. I seriously do not understand why this form a dress up is accepted by society. Plus, I have done extensive research, and if you spend more than 30% of your waking time wearing a hat, you are probably a d nozzle. Nice logic ghost --- with this logic I shouldn't wear shorts when it is a 150 fukkin degrees outside because I don't want to dress like a basketball player. Or maybe not wear a swim suit in the pool because I won't ever be an olympic swimmer so why dress the part. As far as the hat I have some that are probably 10 years old that I refuse to part with also.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 28, 2008 7:36:23 GMT -6
Well, I don't have a lawn or any home improvement crap. I only wear my ball cap on Saturday or Sunday mornings to go get breakfast or coffee or when it is really sunny or rainy on the weekend. I'll get a new one, but I'm not throwing the old one away. Thanks gang.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Mar 28, 2008 7:42:04 GMT -6
They invented swimsuits before the olympics. They invented shorts before basketball.
Baseball hats were invented FOR baseball. They should only be worn by children or grown men who play baseball. A guy wearing a baseball hat, to me, is equal to a guy who is not a firefighter walking around wearing a firefighter's helmet. It is simply adolescant dress up.
Trust me, I know I am fighting this battle alone, but a man has to have convictions, and dammit, that is one of mine. Plus, I have really nice hair.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 28, 2008 7:48:32 GMT -6
Liberal fascists didn't believe in ballcaps either. I'm not surprised by ghost's recitation of the modern liberal thought on the issue.
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Post by 101 on Mar 28, 2008 7:54:42 GMT -6
Don't listen to Ghost. If you want to keep an old ballcap, go for it. Ghost....I didn't realize you were the fashion police.
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Post by bucketochicken on Mar 28, 2008 8:01:54 GMT -6
What about tennis shoes worn by non-tennis playeres? High-tops worn by non-hoops players? Loafers worn by non-lazy people? Ski gloves in winter by non-skiers? Polo or rugby shirts worn by... well, you get the idea.
It's just a hat dude, chillax.
BTR - keep the hat. That Ma's lack of a Y chromosome prevents her from understanding the sentimental and practical value of such an object shouldn't mean you have to dispose of said object. I'm sure she has something similar - an old stuffed animal, slippers, blanket, whatever - that she sure as hell isn't getting rid of (and that you likely wouldn't think of asking her to do so), so no reason or you to have to do the same.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 28, 2008 8:07:28 GMT -6
Actually bucket, when we moved over from Japan, we each brought two suitcases and mailed one box of crap. She doesn't have anything old.
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Post by bucketochicken on Mar 28, 2008 8:17:58 GMT -6
Cool. I'd love to do a big purge and get rid of a buncha crap & start over.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Mar 28, 2008 8:21:52 GMT -6
Cool. I'd love to do a big purge and get rid of a buncha crap & start over. We did it when we moved from IC to Chicago, too. It's awesome. You accumulate so much crap in a year or two. It's helped control Ma's spending, too.
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Post by bucketochicken on Mar 28, 2008 8:31:32 GMT -6
Yeah, my wife is always complaining/freaking out about how we have sooooo much stuff, and not enough storage space, and we need to have a garage sale, yadda yadda... I don't really say anything, but just sorta chuckle on the inside - honey, it's all YOUR stuff!!! Ouside of clothes, CDs/DVDs and the bed in the guest bedroom, nothing in the whole goddamn place is "mine."
All the more reason to move abraod, I guess - force the issue.
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Post by 101 on Mar 28, 2008 8:52:15 GMT -6
Don't you guys know about the "closet rule"?
For every new thing the Mrs. buys, the same quantity of "old stuff" must be removed from the closet.
She comes home with 2 new tops and 1 new pair of pants. Then 3 items of her choice must be removed so that net-net, there are no additional items in the closet.
She doesn't like it, but she abides by it. You're the man of the house, make the rule and give it a try.
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Post by bucketochicken on Mar 28, 2008 8:57:13 GMT -6
Yeah, we do do that with clothing, I'm refering more to non-clothing stuff. And coats. Jesus H. Cracker-Crumbling Christ, I've never seen anyone with as many coats. And they're almost all black - WTF? I have three coats - a jacket, a "formal" wool coat, and my everyday winter coat. I get along just fine.
I am constantly reminded that Carlin's "A Place For Your Stuff" bit is truly a work of genius.
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Post by 101 on Mar 28, 2008 9:10:31 GMT -6
You need to go on a purge. I cleaned-out a bunch of stuff we have in a cubbie under the stairs a couple of years ago. I actually threw everything away.
She asked me if I went through it all first and I replied "No". If we haven't used or looked through any of that stuff in 3 years, we don't need it.
It's gone.
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Post by The Flying Spaghetti Monster on Mar 28, 2008 9:17:31 GMT -6
Every part of our house/garage/basement/shed get a once or twice per year purge.
My rule is that if it has not been touched in a year, it goes. Everyone at home seems to have bought on to that logic.
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Post by 101 on Mar 28, 2008 9:21:01 GMT -6
As one gets older, one often realizes that acquiring material things becomes less and less important.
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Post by socal on Mar 28, 2008 9:23:02 GMT -6
We HAVE to have a garage sale once/year --- as the kids amass 10x the crap we do (which is saying a lot).
And believe it or not, one of the things that always gets the local garage sale crowd in a tizzy - is a huge box of happy meal toys that were amassed over the past year. At 2 or 3 for $0.25, they sell out everytime.
Other than that, my Mrs. has gotten in the habit of losing 10 lbs - then throwing away all her "big" clothes... then gaining it back 2 months later - only to require buying a new friggin wardrobe because she only has 1 outfit that she can wear. (Rinse Repeat).
Maybe I'll marker her name in her clothes, so I can find them easily at Goodwill when she needs them again.
Oh, to the topic. Quality hats can be kept as long as there aren't more than 2 exact duplicates that fit equally as well. --- For example, I've got 3 tigerhawk hats and 3 "I" hats. A nasty one for sweaty work, one for normal wear, and one for games.
Once a 4th is purchased, the sweaty one gets thrown away & the "Normal" one becomes the new sweaty one.
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Post by NotMyKid on Mar 28, 2008 9:29:39 GMT -6
101,
I have an Iowa hat that looks a lot like that one. I no longer wear it to games but it won't be going in the garbage anytime soon. I have about 3 or 4 hats like that which I wear doing yard, painting, running to get a paper in the morning, etc.
All of these hats that are stained or have something else wrong with them but they have something a new hat can't have: character.
I have a couple that my wife knows I would kill her if she threw out.
One is my Iowa hat like 101's. I have a Cubs hat that has seen better days my dog got a hold of it when she was a puppy and chewed up part of the bill. I was pissed as hell at first but then realized that it added the worn look to it and is now my favorite hat.
And then I have the most scarred hat in my collection it's a King's Concrete hat. (a business in Iowa City) When I was a freshmen in HS (1991) one of the guys on our baseball team worked there and he would wear it to practice sometimes. One of the seniors on the team said it would be cool if we could all have one. So a week later he comes to practice with a whole box of them for the team. They became our practice hat and we finished runner up in the state tournament that year. There were three of us that played on that team as freshmen and my senior year I was cleaning out my closet and found it. So I started wearing it to practice again and low and behold we made it to state and finished runner up again. It became kind of a lucky hat. It's ugly as hell and is a mesh hat but all of the memories that it has in it is something that I can't just throw away in the trash.
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Post by MoHawk on Mar 28, 2008 9:54:03 GMT -6
If I'm not at the office or church, chances are there's a hat attached to my head. There are certain exceptions of course, but I've been wearing a ballcap since about 1st grade.
My most worn hat is a Cubs hat. I mix in an Old Style hat and an Iowa hat every once in a while, but I mostly stick with the Cubs as it is the most comfortable hat I own.
I wear my hats until they basically fall apart, then have a "funeral" for them and give them their due and allow them to rest in peace. I form BONDS with my hats...certain events and memories that occurred while I was wearing said hats, and I connect them to those events.
Long story short, even though it's a Sox hat BTR, don't you DARE throw that thing away without giving it its proper sendoff.
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Post by 101 on Mar 28, 2008 10:00:52 GMT -6
If I'm not at the office or church, chances are there's a hat attached to my head. There are certain exceptions of course, but I've been wearing a ballcap bince about 1st grade. My most worn hat is a Cubs hat. I mix in an Old Style hat and an Iowa hat every once in a while, but I mostly stick with the Cubs as it is the most comfortable hat I own. I wear my hats until they basically fall apart, then have a "funeral" for them and give them their due and allow them to rest in peace. I form BONDS with my hats...certain events and memories that occurred while I was wearing said hats, and I connect them to those events. Long story short, even though it's a Sox hat BTR, don't you DARE throw that thing away without giving it its proper sendoff. Then you must have a special hat for the teacher?
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