to want to wear my scouts 'occasional' badges permanently?

[ScoutyMcScoutface]

I'm a scout leader and I find the rules around the 'occasional' badges really annoying! I've just been not so subtly reminded that I need to remove my VE80 badge as its after the allowed timeframe - but why? Why can't I keep it on my uniform to show that I was part of the movement during that year? Why do I have to remove my international badges after the year, why can't I keep it to show the different activities I've been involved with? The same for the YP, why do they have to remove their camp badges and other occasional badges?

Anyone else find this unnecessary and annoying? I'm tempted to buy a second uniform shirt to put them all on and only wear the 'scouts rules correct' shirt when i'm somewhere the higher ups will see me and wear my decorated one to section meetings each week.

YABU - thems the rules, put up and shut up.
YANBU - we should be able to show our achievements and attendance at events permanently.

Isn't this what your camp blanket is for? My son's (and all the leaders) would put their camp badges and 'out of date' ones on there.
Or you could get a 'badge hat' like a bucket hat and sew them all on there?
I understand not wanting to throw them away but you'd end up absolutely covered in them after a few years as a leader.

Hmm, as a cub leader, I'm more on the side of removing them - but only when there's something to replace them with. I don't really like it when the cubs are covered in occasional badges. I encourage them to wear only one occasional badge at a time, but if they end up with more, I wouldn't ask them to remove them again

I'll often wear mine for over a year, but if I have a new one I want to put on there, then I will take the old one off.

In an ideal world, I'd then sew it onto my blanket. But in reality I have over 30 occasional and commemorative badges that are sitting in an envelope waiting to sew on to the blanket. When I mentioned this to one of my cubs, he looked aghast and asked "Akela, how are you still allowed to be a cub leader?!" I'd probably better get on and sew them on.

As a parent, occasional badges for uniforms are really fucking annoying, creating extra pointless work for (let's be honest) women.

These badges should either be for camp blankets or shouldn't exist.

Agree. I refuse to sew them on shirt

Just put them in your camp
blanket like the rest of us do

I refuse to do the badge sewing. DP is perfectly capable and I do all the Beavers admin every week (leaving work early to get DC there), so he can do his bit.

But I fully agree that it's usually women doing this work.

My husband is GSL (or Lead Volunteer now?). He has no badges on his shirt at all, because he hasn't (in 20 odd years) got round to sewing them on.

He is in all other ways an excellent leader, but not a role model on the badge front...

You should see DHs shirt.

Every now and again he encounters a Badge Police sort but he's made it clear... he wears his badges his way or he leaves. The kids love his shirt.

YABU.
There's no room on your shirt once you've been around for a few years.
Bit daft to be wearing a Platinum Jubilee badge several years after the event.
Or a series of badges to mark the fact you attended the District Camp 14 times out of the last 18 years. I mean, how big is your shirt ?

Your camp blanket is where you put older badges if you want to display them on something you can wear..

All my DD's badges went on a camp blanket, and now my DGS's badges have gone on HIS blanket, thanks Grandma for getting sore fingers the second time around ! Dozens of them, both times.

It gets evens worse if they decide to go on to Rangers, after guides.And my DGS is showing the same keen-ness having moved on to Magellan Explorers.

That's what everyone does with their old badges don't they?

Just put them straight on to your blanket, no problem. Badge glue works well too!

Totally agree.