Well, I don’t do it for everyone .. just some close friends.  And only when it’s the first package I’ve sent them in a long time.

The organization I work for has hordes of leftover t-shirts from past events that it holds .. on a fairly regular basis.  And I mean a lot of shirts .. all with 2006 or 2007 written on them… or program titles that are useless today.

So if I have a package to send and I’m already over the weight limit to the point where I have to use a flat rate box from USPS?

I use these t-shirts as packing material.  Styrofoam peanuts?  Messy.  Bubble wrap?  Fleeting.  T-shirts to wear?  Awesome.

Crazy awesome.

Because if you’re just wearing them to sleep or around the house, who cares what it says?  And in a weird way, I’m semi-advertising my organization in other parts of the country.  Maybe.  Can’t hurt.  Hey, at least the shirt is being worn instead of sitting in a closet forever.  Maybe my friends will never enter a science competition, but at least they’ll have a shirt from one.