Dot Com Tee Shirts at the Seashore I have a bureau drawer full of free tee shirts I've been given over the past five years. I use them year-round at the gym where nobody sees me, so I don't care who they're from and what they say. But now I'm out in public wearing these things at the beach, so I find myself more conscious of what I'm wearing. I don't want to be a walking billboard for some dot com that no longer exists. I have six tee shirts from companies that went belly up. Some say these will be collectibles, but I don't think so. Collectibles are typically representations of things people want to remember, like the Beatles, old radios or Buicks from the '50s. My sense is dead dot coms are artifacts that people would just as soon forget, from either an employee or investor point of view. I have one tee shirt that shouts across my back "INTERSTITIALS!" Are people really wanting to remember this either in the short or long term? I don't think so. So I now have two piles of tee shirts. The work-out tee shirts used only at the gym, and the few tee shirts in which I don't mind being seen in public wearing. Earthlink and Internet.com shirts are worn at the seashore. Globix isn't.
I'm running out of tee shirts I can wear outside. At this
rate, I might have to start buying tee shirts again. |