Blank Yard Sign
Jun. 8th, 2025 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebI got a blank yard sign at my local hardware store for reasons that I won't make to clear to search bots. But in these days, it's nice to have a re-usable sign. So I got one of those corregated plastic yard signs. I chose a small one, with the longer sides about two feet long.
I have some so-called dry-erase markers that work on it, but they work as wet-erase markers. So I won't be updating the sign during any events. Still, it should be easy to change it between events. These days I feel like I should carry it everywhere I go, updating it every hour. (My horror journal regularly has more than ten entries per day!) But that's the kind of weirdo I'm not quite up to being at this time.
I've gotten one of these signs before, but used a Sharpie on it, which I'd heard could be cleaned off with alcohol. Not so much. Then I used multiple pieces of paper taped to each other and to the sign, but my new system is much quicker and easier.
The yard sign comes with a double post for displaying in your yard, but I have found that this is awkward for event use. Instead, I bring a fork whose tines fit in the little holes at the edge of the sign. Then it's pretty easy to hold the sign up in the air. I keep the fork stashed during my bus rides.
(Maybe I will find a neighbor with a yard sign whose posts are messed up, and I could leave mine with them.) (Well, I suppose I could use it for a yard sign, too, but my yard is so terrible that it gives a negative impression of the residents.)
I have some so-called dry-erase markers that work on it, but they work as wet-erase markers. So I won't be updating the sign during any events. Still, it should be easy to change it between events. These days I feel like I should carry it everywhere I go, updating it every hour. (My horror journal regularly has more than ten entries per day!) But that's the kind of weirdo I'm not quite up to being at this time.
I've gotten one of these signs before, but used a Sharpie on it, which I'd heard could be cleaned off with alcohol. Not so much. Then I used multiple pieces of paper taped to each other and to the sign, but my new system is much quicker and easier.
The yard sign comes with a double post for displaying in your yard, but I have found that this is awkward for event use. Instead, I bring a fork whose tines fit in the little holes at the edge of the sign. Then it's pretty easy to hold the sign up in the air. I keep the fork stashed during my bus rides.
(Maybe I will find a neighbor with a yard sign whose posts are messed up, and I could leave mine with them.) (Well, I suppose I could use it for a yard sign, too, but my yard is so terrible that it gives a negative impression of the residents.)