Hubby's Mom has one that's a variation on her name. It was a gift from her kids. I've toyed with the idea but just can't see spending the extra $.

I have wanted one of these since the first time I saw one:

WhenI was in college my car was covered in bumper stickers, but I just can't see doing that now.

How about spoiledrotten? OMG how ridiculous, I have seen those though. It's so funny to me how stupid some people can be. And these are grown people, so they say. (lol)

DH and I both have vanity plates - it's way easier to remember than a random string of numbers, and it's nice for finding my car (or a friend) in a parking lot. It's not as if DH nor I nor anyone else we know drives a particularly distinctive vehicle that's easy to spot. The vanity plate surcharge in NH is a pittance so many, many people have personalized plates. (I don't see it as that much different from the other specialty plates that many states offer, with different logos and mottoes on them. Those cost extra too.) Mine is DH's nickname for me, DH's is a triple pun that is way too long to explain. :-) Figuring out the license-plate puzzles - and some of them are ingenious - makes sitting in traffic a little less aggravating.

I have lots and lots of bumper stickers but I don't actually have them stuck to the exterior of my car. Someone apparently found a bumper sticker I had on a previous car offensive and gouged it off (the cop said it looked like they'd used keys), ripped h*ll out of the paint which would have cost me $500 to have fixed. So now I tape them up inside the car (usually one in the main back window and one on each rear side window, since I have a station wagon) and change them according to my mood. I had one of those suction-cup thingies but it kept popping off with temperature extremes. Some of the many I have:
Freedom of Religion Means ALL Religions
Goddess Bless Everyone - NO Exceptions!
Poor Planning On Your Part Does Not Constitute An Emergency On Mine
Yes. I'm a Witch. DEAL WITH IT.
Change How You See, Not How You Look
Disobedient Woman
Peacemonger
Do Not Meddle In The Affairs of Dragons, For You Are Crunchy and Good With Ketchup
Hatred Is Not A Family Value
Equal Rights Are Not Special Rights
Question Authority? Who Says?
Visualize Whirled Peas
If I Wanted To Hear The Pitter-Patter Of Little Feet, I'd Put Shoes On The Cat

and a whole bunch of political ones that would undoubtedly REALLY REALLY REALLY offend a lot of people here so I won't post them. :-) I've never put anything pertaining to any particular political candidate on my vehicle, just more... philosophical comments. Bumper stickers cost about a dollar apiece, it's cheap entertainment for me, and if someone wants to think I'm stupid or ridiculous for having them, well, let them have their fun. It's no skin off my butt.

Now Disobedient Woman is really cute.

Johnmari, I love your bumper stickers! The one about not meddling in the affairs of dragons had me laughing out loud. I'm sorry your car got vandalized and that the person who did it felt that doing something like that was so much more acceptable than whatever your bumper sticker said.

For me, I have the stickers of two schools that DS has gone to on my car. I believe in what these schools stand for (seeing the child as an individual and supporting the child for who s/he is, and that bring a worldwide perspective into education). I hope that this helps the school's marketing but I have no idea if it actually does.

And I have the Human Rights Campaign equal sign sticker on my car. It is small and probably a lot of people don't even know what it is, but sometimes we will be on the freeway and someone will honk and give us a thumbs up sign or a wave and smile, and I know that I have connected for a brief moment with someone who shares my belief in equality for all.

When I was in my teens I had a bunch of dumb childish stickers on my car. Also had a bunch of logos. VANS, Roxy, etc. Nothing that would make anyone blush. As an adult I have put some political stickers on but I'm in the minority here as far as politics go so we'll leave that at that. I do find most of them entertaining.

I have a bracket around my license plate that says Swim Taxi. I got it after we joined a carpool to get to daily practice. When those 7 big boys climb out of the van it reminds me of the old "how many people can you stuff into a phone booth" stunts.

JohnMari I love your stickers!

When we had our business, DH wanted our biz truck to say BRDBTH (birdbath) but it was taken! I have been flirting with NEETC (Neetsie) which is my nickname, but haven't gotten the plate yet. Maybe when my tags expire.

I have named my rig, it's one of those decals and it says BETTY inside some tribal drawing. Everyone asks me who Betty is. I've also got 3 dog decals.

I've got an OSU MOM sticker.
"No Chains. Bring them inside. Dogs Deserve Better."
"The last time we mixed politics and religion, someone got burned at the stake".

On my old mini-van I had one that said "Stupidity should be painful". Loved that one.

Our other rig (my old one, now DH's) has "Don't make me get my flying monkeys", an Aloha turtle, and one that said "Honor the dead, heal the wounded, end the war". Also it now has an OSU DAD sticker.

I am OCD about stickers (and tags). Dang things come off the second they are inside the house, so I don't like bumper stickers on my car. I have been trying to find a non-sticky Euro style sticker for a dog w/o luck. I bought a cute set in CA when visiting DD1 of reindeer. Was excited to put them on last December, only to find out my back window is so tinted, you cannot see them from outside.

I love the "burn at the stake" and several of Mari's.

I have a Bama football tag and tag bracket.....DH. *eyes rolling* I've been thinking of getting a vanity plate with the name of where I live (community, not city) but haven't since it's hard to spell it out w/only 7 letters. I need 8.

DH had a bumper sticker on his truck years ago that said "Charleton Heston is my President." (NRA) An old lady at the Y where he worked out tore it off! Someone saw her doing it! lol

Jane, why is it ridiculous? I have vanity plates and stickers all over my Jeep Wrangler. Doesn't mean I'm spoiled ... I mean, spending $70 on something for my car hardly makes me stupid, does it? ;-) It only means I like to have a bit of fun with my vehicle, and what's wrong with that?

My plate reads "ICABO", as a reference to the fact that I love traveling to Cabo! (I suppose it could be misread as "Ick-abo", but those who know me realize otherwise.) My plates also bear this symbol, and the $ that I paid to have it on my plates goes towards cleaning up Texas beaches:

I have numerous stickers on the back window of my Jeep alluding to my love of Cabo and the Baja region, a "hang loose" sign, a peace sign, and a sticker for Del Castillo, my favorite band from Austin, Texas.

I'm a bit like Allison with tags and things. I don't like things written on clothing, etc. either.

Anyhoo, no vanity plates here. I choose to put my money elsewhere. What we have done is buy special plates (the view on the plate) that support our local national park. They are more than a regular plate, although not as much as vanity plates, and the extra money goes to the park.

An older couple lives down a way from us (we're in a rural area) and their 40 something daughter moved back home. Now let me just say, from personal experience, this gal is a piece of work, and VERY interested in the opposite sex. Her vanity plate says "PERKYVIXEN". Can't remember how she has her spelled out - but that's what it says. HA!

tina

I have vanity plates that refer to Italy.

My favorite, that I've ever seen, was on a new Jeep Cherokee and read "XPAID4". Still get a chuckle out of that one. Must have been a dilly of a divorce.

Parma... we had a friend that divorced, lost almost everything to the ex... he ended up with a very old Volkswagen and had BENHAD put on his vanity plate!

When my kids were in college they couldn't wait to buy decals with their school name on it to stick on my rear window. I made them stick them at the very bottom so that it wouldn't block my vision.

I did see a vanity plate that really annoyed me. While sitting at a red light I noticed the lady next to me flicking her cigarette butt out the window while talking on her hand held cell phone (against the law here in New Jersey). When the light turned green she pulled out so quickly that I could easily read her vanity plate: DRS WIFE

I wonder what her husband's plate read: BTCHS DR?

I don't have vanity plates but I do have a sticker that says "Keep tailgating, I need a new car"

My favorite bumper sticker was one on the back of a little Ford Aspire that was being towed behind a huge RV- "Be Patient, I'm pushing an RV"

I don't like stickers on the paint of a car so only have one on my truck which says "Lightning 12s club" as the car window would block my view and I don't really have anything I'd want to put there.

Our car trailer before we sold it had a personalized plate which was 4DHALR.

groomingal - I like the Aspire sticker, that is cute.

"Keep tailgating, I need a new car"

Love it! That drives me bonkers.

I have no problem with bumper stickers, but will admit that I don't "get" the ones that are just vulgar. "Unless you're a hemorrhoid, get off my a$$", for instance. Who puts that on their car?

That said, I did take my driving test in a 1978-ish Ford Pinto that I borrowed from a friend, with a sticker on the bumper that read, "Eat more beans. America needs the gas."

Sheesh ...

Jennava, I'll remeber that one, too. LOL

My license plate is the same low 4 digit number that I was issued when I was 17. I have a 'conservation plate' that I pay $20 extra for, and the money goes to conservation efforts in Maine. However, I am waiting for this fall, as I pre-bought one that supports animal adoption.

I have two small black and white stickers on my silver car. One is a Euro style WOOF, and the other reads 'DOG IS MY CO-PILOT', since 99% of the time, I have a couple of them with me, and Sammy proudly rides in the front seat. Jenny navigates from the back seat and Joey always elects to stay home, if given a choice.

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My nephew made & sold bumper stickers to raise money for his trip to Europe. They have I "heart shape" his name. He sold 200 of them! Once someone at a gas station asked me "who is so and so and why do so many people have that bumper sticker?" I still have mine on the car, 4 years later, but it's showing it's age and should come off. I'm the only one left in the family still sporting it & I haven't seen any others lately so I'm not sure how many are still in circulation.

The only other thing I have on a window is the cow logo for Heifer International.

I too have the "burn at the stake" one. I must have forty or so accumulated over time (and I'm talking about around 8 years) in an envelope in my glove compartment. People give me stickers fairly often - I keep the ones I like best and pass along others - and they're not exactly expensive investments. The ones from the Northern Sun catalog are the priciest ones I ever buy at $2.

Allison, although there is a risk of theft, you can mount a regular sticker on the very thin magnetic sheets from any craft store.

Barb, the dragons sticker is a spinoff of the line from one of the Lord of the Rings books - "do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger". I picked that one up in a science fiction bookstore.

(One of my dream bumper stickers would read:
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. -- JRR Tolkien
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. -- Steven Brust)

I'll grant that there are many bumper stickers out there that make me wish I had a rocket launcher mounted on the hood of my car - usually expressing some kind of hate-filled, couldn't-pry-that-closed-mind-open-with-the-Jaws-of-Life vileness - but I would never even consider defacing someone else's property no matter how much they p!$$ed me off.

I saw one today that made me rather sad: "War does not define who is right. It only defines who is left." (As in left alive.) So true, and I wish it weren't.

However, I don't care to put any kind of advertising stickers on my car, just like I don't wear clothes with brand or store names splashed across them. (I do like to wear kooky t-shirts, I'll admit it, because I think it's fun to make people do a double-take. My favorite is worn to tatters - reads "give me that old-time religion" with a drawing of people dancing around Stonehenge. LOL) I figure if a business wants me or my car to be a billboard they can dang well pay me for it.

Reading all your plates and bumper stickers has been a lot of fun! I especially love Johnmari's "Do Not Meddle In The Affairs of Dragons, For You Are Crunchy and Good With Ketchup" one (LOL!). I don't have a vanity plate, and haven't had a bumper sticker since high school . . . but I do like and appreciate reading all of them when I'm out driving. My licence plate holder has "Oklahoma Sooners" on it and I have 2 rear window sticker on my minivan that I'm really proud of. One says, "O.U. Mom" and the other one says, "I'm the proud parent of a __ High School Honor Student". That's it for me.
Lynn

DH has a dive signal flag tag on the front of his truck. It say's Dive Nekkid! on it. My MIL has been having kittens over "that horrible vulgar thing" for going on 12 years.

DH and I both have "Creek Geek" bumper stickers that a friend of ours had made for everyone in our little neighborhood.

I save my esoteric and/or subversive slogans for my t-shirts. My favorite is a quote from Star Wars:
You'll find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view. ~ Obi Wan Kenobi

This one had me cracking up yesterday: "Hire a teenager while they still know it all!"

HA! These are sooo funny! What a great read!

We don't have a vanity plate but I love some of the doosies I see on the road. These are some I remember seening "serve" "kidsbnk" If I had one I'd want it to say "Im here" because being short (under 5 ft) I'm often over looked at the grocery counter (literally).

My vanity tag says BATTY

I drive like a bat out of hell, and my favorite poem is Batty by Shel Silverstein. Plus bats are among the coolest animals. I have bat stuff all over my car too- rubber life-like bats in the rear view mirror, stuffed bats on the visors, sticker on the tags, I painted bats on the seat covers, etc.

I have several bumper stickers:

Why let the terrorists destroy our freedom when our government does it so well?

THINK It's not illegal yet

The strange remains the same

No me gusta neutros presidente idiota (though I have since removed it since Bush is no longer "the decider")

My Siberian Huskies are smarter than your honor student

My husband is a game designer and author, so his vanity tag is WRITESTUF

I saw a vanity tag on a car merging onto I-40 in Raleigh. It said I-40 UGH. I cracked up.

Some other bumper stickers I like besides some already mentioned:

Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular

If you can read this, thank your teacher

COEXIST with symbols from different religions. The one I particularly like had E=mc2 for the E, which is as close to religious as I'll get.

I love the COEXIST sticker, and now that you've reminded me, I'm off to order one.
:-D

I always thought it would be a kick to have "Hoof (heart symbol) TD" which I first heard about on a funny horse race, see video below.

What I don't like are license plate frames that say "My grandchildren are cuter than yours" because clearly they haven't seen mine, and I don't like the ones that say "My child can beat up your child" What are they thinking?

I would like to see more bumper stickers that say "Don't drink and drive" or for my grandson's case, "Don't drug and drive"

I have Disney's Mickey and Minnie mouse decals on my car.

Enjoy the video!

Here is a link that might be useful: Hoof Hearted