Sorority unsold t-shirts
 

Hi,
I'm in a sorority and recently we've had trouble selling all of our shirts. This has left us with boxes FILLED with old t-shirts from various philanthropy events. Each shirt typically has the year on it too. Does anybody know any ways that we can recycle these shirts and get our money back if possible?

Sell to alums? But otherwise, you don't want to see one on a drunk downtown so destroy them.

Offer to new members? Big sisters for little sis gifts? Sisters looking to make t-shirt quilts?

LOLOL!

There are many shirt swaps on Facebook for whatever sorority you're in. You can easily post there and sell shirts to other members.

Exhibit A:
https://scontent-ord5-1.xx.fbcdn.net...dQ&oe=6476A74B

The story behind this is somewhere in the thread about finding your letters in unusual places.

Still a favorite photo of mine lol.

Anyhow, I do warn people against donating letters/shirts to thrift stores, as I've seen people buy the shirt because it looks cool and then they're out wearing letters without being in an org!

Or they're out wearing letters and doing things that would earn your members a swift expulsion. Or a trip to jail.

If that was D9, he would be hunted down Lol

Yes!

That's actually what happened. A guy bought an AKA shirt at a thrift and wore it. But trust me, there was plenty of backlash.

I’m not surprised. It trips me out knowing GLO members are donating their perry to thrift stores/Goodwill or whatever. While that photo is funny as hell, it just blows me away that it got in the wrong hands.

Take them with you to convention and sell to other chapters. And sell to alums at homecoming (specifically, after approximately 7 pm Saturday night lol).

Are the letters hugely on it? Or does it just say “Beta Beta presents their 57th Chili Cookoff” in script? If it’s the latter, I wouldn’t worry about them falling into random hands.

That dude is wearing white boots, some old school colonial army pants, and a dirty ADPi shirt. Wtf?

Years ago, I was riding down our main street with several teachers on our way to a training. I looked out and saw several Guatemalan guys coming down the street, wearing AKA shirts. I nudged the half-sleeping AKA next to me and said, "Hey L____, there are your sisters," and she woke up and looked and screamed, "WHAT?" and started trying to climb over me (at about 35 mph) and get at them! This woman was in her seventies!

We were trying to hold her down until the driver could get way past them. For sure, she would have ripped their shirts off!

The girly paisley print on the letters is what makes the outfit.

Lmao! Facts.

Looks like everything is dirty except for the boots.

Lol!!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Right. Someone's parent/sibling/minister/dog walker/etc attending the "event" and purchasing/winning the event's tshirt has no worry attached. I've worn a shirt from a relative's event without incident nor guilt.

Lol it’s the truth though. That entire hookup literally makes no sense. It looks like he battled the enemy with an RPG while wearing an ADPi shirt. And where the hell did those white pledge boots come from?

This shirt didn't look like "ABC family bbq 2007" or something, it specifically said "AKA Pretty Girls wear 20 pearls." That's a huge difference.

I forget the whole story about the man in the ADPi shirt, but here's what I do remember.

The guys with him are Americans working in the Middle East on something technical. The one did mention that it was a girl's shirt, and the Contender for Homeliest ADPi Ever almost took his shirt off. They then did tell him that it was for a group for very beautiful young women, and he was happier. As for the rest of his fashion sense, I'm going to give him a Negative 9 on a scale of one to ten!

Once a few years ago I was leaving a CVS in a rather sketchy part of town and saw a lady pushing a small grocery cart out of a Dollar Store lot and up over a set of RR tracks.
When I got around her, I could clearly see she had on a sweat shirt with THREE GREEK DELTAs on thd front—sewn-on letters in a bright floral pattern I think.
Let me just say the sweatshirt MIGHT have been a M and she was DEFINITELY a L or XL!

Also, there’s a Goodwill location a half block away. Clearly she was doing the best she could BUT—not in a Tri Delta shirt! There is a chapter on a local campus.

Lol

This.

I have a pile of T-shirts and a couple of letter sweatshirts from my collegiate days. I almost never wear them, except to go to the gym, but I won't donate them. There's an AEPhi chapter in town (Tulane) and I don't want them to get in hot water because some rando picked up an AEPhi T-shirt at Goodwill and then went over to Bourbon St. and got their drunk on.

Also, in AEPhi, if you're not a sister, you're not allowed to wear the Greek letters. (Even new members can't wear letters.) So I'm doubly uncomfortable about donating my letters.

Wait...a man was wearing a shirt that said "AKA Pretty Girls wear 20 pearls" ?! What the...??? :eek:

I would've had to open my big mouth and say something to him, and I'm not even D9. That's just...ridiculous.

Yup and he said "oh yeah this is a sorority shirt." Like :confused:.

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/3bV2gZ.jpg

Here you go.

Thanks! I can never seem to get the sizing right!

My youngest son just came home and has now seen, with horror, why he can donate any other shirts to the Salvation Army except his Greek ones.

At least cut the appliqued letters off with a thread cutter before donating!

OP, you all may want to switch to an "order up front and pay" system. The members in the chapter I help advise set up a Google doc for all optional shirts, etc. and the FVP bills them. That takes care of the problem so you don't keep having this issue.

You won't be able to get any money back or return them, so all the ideas for alum gifts, swaps, little sister/new member gifts are good ones. My son got 2-3 free FIJI shirts when he joined that were leftovers from the previous year's events. One of them is a nice Comfort Colors bid day shirt that ended up being a favorite and the previous year's date always makes me laugh. He's still wearing it!

Well, at least they aren’t Rho Gamma shirts.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=127060

Those are definitely 90s era paisley!! The boots, I just can't. This is amazing! LOL

I wonder what that OP is doing now? Time for embezzlement, would be my guess.