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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband wears Penn gear because he has it from college and it still fits. He played a sport, so he has a ton of sweats, jackets, etc. and we toss them as they wear out.

[u]I don’t understand people who wear vacation gear for a ski resort or beach town they went to once.[/u] College makes sense to me - you spent 4 years there. Vacation gear makes sense to me if you have a house there or have been going to the same place every year forever and it is part of your family’s culture / collective memories. [/quote]
My kids always want to buy souvenir hats and sweatshirts from any random beach town we might spend a weekend at.  I get why it seems strange, but they view that stuff as souvenirs to remind them of a fun weekend.  It's usually only about $10-15, and more useful than a snowglobe or refrigerator magnet, so I don't fight it.  Maybe that will help you understand.[/quote]

I am not judging your kid. I am judging my mom who went to a Bar Harbor once for a long weekend and is wearing her fleece and using it to strike up conversations in the grocery check out line 10 years later. It was not purchased due to unexpected weather. For some reason that is different to me than my inlaws who wear shirts and jackets with the logo of a popular western ski resort because they own a timeshare there and have been skiing there 2-3 weeks a year since the 1980s. It’s a big enough part of their family that some of my husband’s siblings got married there - hence actual family history and connection. So when someone randomly asks you if n public about the place on your shirt, so you have something interesting or meaningful to say. My mom doesn’t even know anyone who lives in Maine. [/quote]

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