I would have taken them I still have my Red Hat I got somewhere around Red Hat 7 before RHEL.I do need to get a blue Fedora hat along with matching coffee cup.
I am still using the stuff I collected where ever I went and worked. I don’t care of the design, I don’t care if I had issues with the companies or people, until the thing does its job it is worth using it. I still wear t-shirts too, who cares when I just have to sleep and sweat in those? On the other side I don’t collect things I don’t need. Like, I don’t know, pins. Those don’t have any practical sense.
On a side note, cups are not popular in my country since we don’t drink “long coffee”. We drink milk and tea at times but usually cups are more like small bowls.
One of the misteries of the universe is the passion Americans and maybe some other people have for caps. I mean, like baseball caps. They are ugly, they don’t protect your head and they make you look like a 12 years old while promoting some brand of beer or trucks. I have berrets for winter and a boonie hat for hiking. My military hat had a crow feather and it looked like cartoon Robin Hood but that is another story.