Sorority unsold t-shirts

#1 05-25-2023, 10:49 PM

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?

Titchou · #2 05-26-2023, 07:11 PM

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

carnation · #3 05-26-2023, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Titchou

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

LOLOL!

honeychile · #4 05-26-2023, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Titchou

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

Exhibit A:

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

Cookiez17 · #5 05-26-2023, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

Exhibit A:

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!

carnation · #6 05-27-2023, 06:58 AM

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

Phrozen Sands · #7 05-27-2023, 08:18 AM

If that was D9, he would be hunted down Lol

Titchou · #8 05-27-2023, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by carnation

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

Yes!

Xidelt · #9 05-26-2023, 07:17 PM

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

Cookiez17 · #10 05-26-2023, 07:30 PM

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

Cookiez17 · #11 05-27-2023, 11:28 PM

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.

lake · #12 05-29-2023, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Cookiez17

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.

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

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

Cookiez17 · #13 05-29-2023, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by lake

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

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

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carnation · #14 05-30-2023, 06:56 AM

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.

PGD-GRAD · #15 05-28-2023, 09:05 AM

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.