If your candidate won and you’re “wired” or if you candidate lost
and you’re droopy you can still have fun and do something practical with the
remnants of the campaign.
Remnants? Yes, the left over yard signs are a valuable source of
materials. If your candidate had a
lots of funds and used the plastic corrugated signs you can make a fairly decent
tomato, bean or pea plant cage out
of three of the wire supports and six plastic wire ties.
If the candidate went frugal and had the plastic sleeve that slides
on a single wire frame you can make
supports for the long stemmed flowers you will have next year by simply bending
the cross member into a “C” shape.
You can even make them look good by painting them “Forest
Green”
Now, as for the signs themselves. You can use the corrugated plastic ones
for place mats under your pets food dishes, under the kids or grand kids water
coloring projects, etc. (You should
be careful as to the candidate you use though……don’t scare the kiddies.) I just spray mine a dark
color.
You can use the plastic slide on sleeves this way too and they have
the advantage of being able to be turned inside out to hide the candidate. Unfortunately, like much of the
rationale used in our candidates speeches, they don’t hold
water.
I usually get five or six sets of these frames every two years and
they last for a long time. This
year was not very good. A woman in
a maroon Subaru was swiping them before I could get
there.