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The ground is too dry and hard to get any garage sale signs into the ground. All other things we have made in the past have blown over. I'm looking for some new ideas for garage sale signs to put around town.  This is our main advertising for our sale and usually gets us most of our customers. We live in an area where people will stop whenever they see a garage sale sign! 
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What about a coffee can with cement? The stick can stay permanently in the cement and you just change the sign that is stapled to it.
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And A-frame/sandwich board style sign?
Someone dressed up in a funny costume jumping up and down on the side of a road with a sign?
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In our area step ladders, childrens' easels and/or lawn chairs are popular ways of displaying garage sale signs. I've also seen antique milk cans, crates, old ironing boards and small tables or other furniture used as supports for signs, which also double as eye catchers. Balloons are another great way of grabbing attention, especially helium mylar ones like they sell at dollar stores. Good luck!
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And A-frame/sandwich board style sign?
Someone dressed up in a funny costume jumping up and down on the side of a road with a sign? |
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I can never get my kids to do this!
Now it is suppose to rain! I do water proof signs, ugh! The only idea I have is getting large boxes and filling them with rocks. I'm struggling finding tall enough boxes. The weeds are tall along side the state roads right now.
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This is a good idea because we have a few events that we needs signs for during the year. Finding coffee cans would be a challenge though (they are all plastic now) and that would be something else to have to store, lol! I'll have to run it by dh!
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what about running a bungie cord (or duct tape) from the cardboard box around a signpost or something? that would anchor the box.
a watering can to get the ground less hard and dry? 
metal spikes you can pound into the ground instead of wood stakes?
tent stakes to anchor the cardboard box?
fill a carboard box with sand/dirt and put your wooden stake signs in it?
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Restaurants that have large cans of tomato sauce or canned veggies etc. a plastic gallon ice cream pail. An orange Home Depot bucket.
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JodieLyn wrote:
what about running a bungie cord (or duct tape) from the cardboard box around a signpost or something? that would anchor the box.
a watering can to get the ground less hard and dry?
metal spikes you can pound into the ground instead of wood stakes?
tent stakes to anchor the cardboard box?
fill a carboard box with sand/dirt and put your wooden stake signs in it? |
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I'm having a good laugh. I forgot to mention that the places I would be putting the signs is like bedrock. I can dig an inch in my yard before hitting rock and well, unless I get post digger nothing is going in the ground here. Well, if it was spring and wet I may be able to get them in a couple of inches but then the wind always takes them down. But, those are great suggestions if we weren't living on a pile of rocks. The bungie cord thing is a good suggestion!
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