The signs vary in size, the BIG highway ones can have 48' x 24' pieces !!!! One buddy put a black backed one (if the backfrop of the sign is black they usually use black tarp to save ink $$) on his roof and white all around just after framing and sheeting, he left it like that for years, looked like a stucco house with a shinlged blac roof. AWSOME

Ironwood

Thats pretty darn neat there ironwood Now im just wondering where exactly i can find those.

My fellow ETSers, I am starting to want to see pictures of your home decor.

hee hee hee .. what do you mean the garage is where my CARS are supposed to go?

Frisket,

Try stopping next time you see a crew replacing one, also call the # of the advertising companies at the bottom of most signs, most smaller shops are easy to find /talk to, some like CBS or some of the other biggies forget it, go right to the crews, BEER talks.


Ironwood

We can learn a thing or two from the less fortunate

Here is a flat inhabited by Asian workers ( very low pay )
They used pants to split/share one AC unit for two rooms

Speaking of pants, when a friend had holes in several pairs of jeans, he took them to a tailor and had them mended at $5 each rather than throwing them away and buying new ones. He also had a belt repaired and even had sheets made into curtains all at the same tailor.

Before I built the computer I am currently using I had a Pentium II workstation which I could have upgraded to a Pentium III.

So many times we get rid of something old and get something new when we can fix or update them ourselves or have someone else fix them.

Jeanette Isabelle

That's one of the things I love about second-hand stores, Jeantte. Lots of cast-off treasures just waiting for a new life!

I can never understand why anyone buys a funnel

Cut in half any plastic bottle, the upper half is a funnel, and the lower half is great for pencils, painting brushes or anything like that.

I use old CDs as signalling mirrors in GHBs ..etc. I have also taped some at home windwos to ( hopefully ) scare away nesting pigeons. They didn't scare the pigeions , so I hope they would work as signalling mirrors. LOL

For those with pigeion problem , you may try hanging the CDs from thins strings instaed of taping them to the window glass. May be if they are moving with the wind, they would be more effective than being staionary.