SweetieBsMom
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Post by SweetieBsMom on May 22, 2022 14:21:51 GMT
Nothing. I have a state police friend that said to never put anything on your car. Interesting. Did he say why? I am curious. I am thinking about parking stickers for universities, apartment complexes, etc. I have a personalized plate and a small sticker with an image of a Rough Collie. He was giving examples of how people can be targeted with what is on their car (he’s particularly vocal about those ‘family’ stickers on cars). His perspective is don’t help the criminals/people out to hurt other people. The other thing is vandalism due to what’s on people’s cars. Do I think that would happen around me? No, I live in a small town but why take the chance?
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iluvpink
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Post by iluvpink on May 22, 2022 14:23:59 GMT
Personalized license plate only. Just not my thing and we don't want stickers on because of resale value etc.
Dh does have a couple of window stickers on his truck though.
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Post by 950nancy on May 22, 2022 14:25:13 GMT
Snow. Snow is on my vehicle. I have an indoor vehicle. She belongs in the garage. Currently we have part of a kitchen in my spot and the kayaks won't budge. I don't have anything on my car. I think there are certain things I just won't add something to... my vehicle... my body... ETA: I do have an oil change sticker in my front window and a car wash pass sticker too. Forgot about those!
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Post by Patter on May 22, 2022 14:25:44 GMT
Nothing. It's a carry over from when we lived in places where you would be targeted. I got used to the clean look and never had a desire to add stickers to my cars. I am thinking about parking stickers for universities, apartment complexes, etc. Don't know of any apartments around here that have parking stickers. It's not really a thing as far as I can tell. One of my daughter's apartment complexes requires it. I know many of them do in the town she lives. Parking is at a premium.
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Post by supersoda on May 22, 2022 14:33:47 GMT
Only a parking sticker for my office so that I get the good parking.
I do entertain myself on my commute wondering about the personalities of people to put some of the things that they do on their cars. Things like the stick figure humping the word it. Or random opinions. Colleges, places you've visited, and political stickers make sense. But some things I just can't imagine caring enough about to buy a sticker and put it on my car. Then again, yesterday I was passed by a red Camaro with a giant pair of red balls hanging from the back. Pretty sure I'd never be BFFs with that driver.
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milocat
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Post by milocat on May 22, 2022 14:39:41 GMT
Nothing. Stickers hasn't been a thing around here since the 70s/80s. I never see frames either. Sometimes personalized plates.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on May 22, 2022 14:41:17 GMT
Nothing. It's a carry over from when we lived in places where you would be targeted. I got used to the clean look and never had a desire to add stickers to my cars. Don't know of any apartments around here that have parking stickers. It's not really a thing as far as I can tell. One of my daughter's apartment complexes requires it. I know many of them do in the town she lives. Parking is at a premium. Interesting. It's just not a thing here. Most complexes have security gates, so either they issue a clicker to enter, or entry can be tied to your EZ-tag if you have one. DD and DH both use their EZ-tag for parking downtown in their respective garages.
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Post by Restless Spirit on May 22, 2022 14:51:55 GMT
I used to have paw 🐾 print stickers on the back lift-gate window of my previous SUV. I picked up my grandson from school everyday and they did pickup by releasing the kids and the kids ran around the parking lot looking for the car. So many of the vehicles were identical, so I made vinyl stickers for both cars. DH still has the sticker on his nondescript grey van. My car was broadsided and totaled last fall. I decided not to put stickers on mine again because I didn’t want the cop that was involved to be able to identify my new car. Currently my *new to me* car has the paint from the car that backed into us on the lift-gate. It’s been a couple of weeks and we are still waiting to hear from insurance about the repairs. It was a correction officer’s wife driving his work car and they didn’t even report it to their insurance because their car wasn’t damage. So irritating. But that’s a whole ‘nuther thread.
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mich5481
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Post by mich5481 on May 22, 2022 14:57:10 GMT
I only have a license plate frame indicating I'm a W&M alum.
LOL, I learned my lesson about bumper stickers when I was younger. I was an honor roll student in middle school, and they gave out bumper stickers saying "my child is a knight of honor at XYZ Middle School." I made my mom put it on the back of her station wagon. Joke was on me, because that was the hand-me-down car I received when I started driving. I couldn't get the sticker off, and it was the talk of my high school.
I also read somewhere that people view cars as an extension of their personal space, and the more a car is personalized with bumper stickers and what not, the bigger the personal space bubble. Supposedly, these cars/drivers are involved in more car accidents. The study also said the content of the bumper stickers didn't matter (for example, liberals weren't safer drivers than conservatives), just the number of them mattered.
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Post by buddysmom on May 22, 2022 14:57:51 GMT
Nothing. The only thing I would maybe consider putting on my car would be my football team sticker. I get some sent to me every year when I renew my membership, but I don't put them on. I've never seen anyone here put a political sticker on a car. That would be so weird! I'm sure there are some, but I've never seen them. Ha! You don't know what you are missing here in the US! Not only political stickers but (especially on pickup trucks here) giant flags such as Trump won, Trump 2020 or 2024, etc.
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QueenoftheSloths
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on May 22, 2022 15:01:17 GMT
I've never had anything on any of my cars. I prefer to keep them annonymous.
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Post by buddysmom on May 22, 2022 15:03:11 GMT
A few years ago we were driving through GA. We had a UF license plate holder for the back plate. We were driving normal, not too fast or slow. This guy behind us lays on his horn, passes us and several youngish guys put their windows down, yelled (our windows were up so I don't know what they said) and flashed their fingers way out the window as they passed.
Since I wasn't driving weird the only thing I figured was that they were Univ of GA fans because they had all sorts of UG stickers, flags, etc on their car. (UF and UG are rivals).
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mich5481
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Post by mich5481 on May 22, 2022 15:04:57 GMT
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mich5481
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Post by mich5481 on May 22, 2022 15:06:00 GMT
A few years ago we were driving through GA. We had a UF license plate holder for the back plate. We were driving normal, not too fast or slow. This guy behind us lays on his horn, passes us and several youngish guys put their windows down, yelled (our windows were up so I don't know what they said) and flashed their fingers way out the window as they passed. Since I wasn't driving weird the only thing I figured was that they were Univ of GA fans because they had all sorts of UG stickers, flags, etc on their car. (UF and UG are rivals). Sounds about right for the SEC... 😉 Just be glad they weren't Bama fans!!
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mich5481
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Post by mich5481 on May 22, 2022 15:09:36 GMT
One last post (at least for now).
A friend of mine was a Congressional staffer and at the time, Members of Congress and their staffs were receiving threats. A law enforcement officer told her to remove some of her bumper stickers because they made her vehicle stand out AND they revealed a lot of personal information about her (ex, her football team, her marital status, and political views - one sticker said "Single and looking for Mr. Right" with the Republican elephant). She removed them, but I believe she replaced some of them after she left the Congressman's office.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on May 22, 2022 15:21:24 GMT
Just a personalized license plate. I've had that word through 5 cars now. When I was a teacher living in my district it was a bit of a pain because everyone knew where I was and what I was doing all of the time. Now I live a half hour from my school so I feel relatively anonymous.
I lease so I would never put a sticker on my car. I did buy an Ohio University magnet that I plan to put on it, though.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 22, 2022 15:25:53 GMT
Dust.
ETA: front windshield, left- inspection sticker, right-apartment parking sticker, generic looking, but numbered.
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Post by Patter on May 22, 2022 15:29:42 GMT
Interesting. Did he say why? I am curious. I am thinking about parking stickers for universities, apartment complexes, etc. I have a personalized plate and a small sticker with an image of a Rough Collie. He was giving examples of how people can be targeted with what is on their car (he’s particularly vocal about those ‘family’ stickers on cars). His perspective is don’t help the criminals/people out to hurt other people. The other thing is vandalism due to what’s on people’s cars. Do I think that would happen around me? No, I live in a small town but why take the chance? Oh yes, I get that. Thanks. All the officers I know have stickers on their cars.
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on May 22, 2022 15:31:43 GMT
2 stickers - I have a silhouette of a german shepherd and a state of Texas with a mountain bike cutout in it.
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Post by KelleeM on May 22, 2022 15:32:38 GMT
My current car has nothing on it. The one I traded in had a Kindness is Free decal on the back window.
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Post by FrozenPea on May 22, 2022 15:34:26 GMT
I have an "Alaska Chic" decal on my back side window and rhinestone license plate frames.
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Post by scrapmaven on May 22, 2022 15:34:56 GMT
Nothing. We were told it's best not to have anything on your vehicle. Our license plate frames are black w/o words. Boring!
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Post by padresfan619 on May 22, 2022 15:43:37 GMT
I chose nothing but I do have a California poppy sticker waiting to be put on my car. I just don’t know if I’ll have my current car for much longer so I’m holding out until I get a new car.
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sueg
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Post by sueg on May 22, 2022 15:49:09 GMT
Nothing. Our car is DH's work car, so no stickers or the like.
We do have the local (required) 'green zone' decal on the windscreen - you have to have it to be able to drive in the Munich city area - and toll road stickers for Austria and Switzerland, but they are more necessities than decoration.
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Post by originalvanillabean on May 22, 2022 15:52:35 GMT
A license plate frame from the college I attended.
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jayfab
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Post by jayfab on May 22, 2022 15:59:57 GMT
I'm not a fan of bumper stickers but I do have an outline of a stick dog on my back window. I also have a personalized plate and a plate frame that says "MOTOR ON" referring to MINI Coopers. And I have a grill magnet that says "Yes it's fast and no you cannot drive"
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Rhondito
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Post by Rhondito on May 22, 2022 16:15:08 GMT
Just a bike rack on the back with a varying selection of bikes depending on the day.
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TXMary
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Post by TXMary on May 22, 2022 16:15:43 GMT
The only thing on the back of my car is a small Dallas Stars emblem.
My front windshield has my Texas Tag and a small "owner" sticker on the passenger side for our property in Port Aransas. The resort requires them.
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Post by Cupcake on May 22, 2022 16:29:50 GMT
I have no stickers, just magnets. One each for the local 5K I am race director for; the university DS just graduated from; my all-women’s running club; a 26.2; and a 13.1. DD is heading to college in the fall (to my alma mater!) so I’ll be adding one more. I have never been interested in putting anything political on my car whatsoever.
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Post by lisacharlotte on May 22, 2022 16:30:27 GMT
I have the NC state flag in the shape of a crab (me) and the three stars from the TN flag (DH). They are about 3” round and in the two lower corners of the back window. I’m selling my property in NC next month and that will sever my last tie to NC. Eventually when we go to California to see my dad I’ll get a bear for the window to replace my crab.
On our previous car we had a small sticker of the Hawaiian Islands after our visit to DS. We also had a blue star flag sticker on the window when he was deployed to Afghanistan. DH was really happy when he was able to peel that off.
The only other sticker on a car was during Desert Storm we had a “Free Kuwait” sticker on the window. DH was deployed to Saudi Arabia during the war. It was written in Arabic so most people had no idea what it said.
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