for these yard signs are expensive, costing about $7 apiece
after reckoning in the shipping costs. We now buy them
in lots of 100, and have just ordered our sixth consignment.
All is not cakes and ale, however. First, there is the Yard
Sign Evaporation Effect. These signs get stolen. Not in
one fell swoop, Karl and Scooter driving by in a pickup
at 2 am. They tend to go one at a time. We have learned
to put them back onto the lawns, so that a person of
malign intent has to make several steps onto the lawn
in order to grab the sign. I suspect that many signs
decorate the bed rooms of high school students.
However, our biggest problem, our main bottleneck is: we
don't have enough (wo)manpower helping with the
button-selling and yard sign distribution. We have money,
and we know how to make lots more. But we could do a _lot_
more if we only had more helpers.
We are getting more helpers, incrementally, but even as we
celebrate our success it is sad to think how much more
successful we could be, if we had thirty people to help
instead of the four or five of us who are doing this work.
I think the problem is: people simply don't believe what
easy pleasant work this is. Sure, we get the occasional
snarly Bush supporter, but we beat a hasty retreat, with a
cheery "Sorry to disturb, God bless!" as we move on to the
next house.
Any of you out there care to help? Our web site is, again,
www.waifllc.org
and instructions on where to send a check are written there.
But the true help would be imitation! Get a bunch of people
together, spend $278 to buy a thousand buttons -- you might
as well use our distributor to save yourself setup costs --
and sell buttons to your community. You can use your
profits for yard signs, or ads, or to print out postcards to
your Congressman. You are limited only by your imagination.
(Written on July 4, 2007, 231 years after the Signing)
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