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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| Yard Flamingos |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Yard flamingos at their best. So many different colors. Buy some today.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| Blue Flamingos |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Blue plastic flamingos and garden flamingos for all sports teams sold here.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| Yellow Flamingos |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Yellow flamingos and many more colors of garden flamingos sold here.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| Purple Flamingos |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Purple Flamingos and 16 more colors sold online.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| Orange Flamingos |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Orange Flamingos and 16 more colors
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Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| Baltimore Raven Fans support their team with Purple Flamingos. |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Baltimore Raven Fans support their team with Purple Flamingos.
Baltimore raven fans had managed to distribute around 350 different purple flocks to be placed on the lawns of raven fans around the city. The founder of poor boys organization had in fact traveled around the town so that they could places purple flamingos all over the state. This in deed was a great way to express support to their team by displaying signs and flags on the lawns of the fans that supported the team. A purple flamingo fundraiser certainly is a great way if you have to try and raise support and money for one of your favorite cause. You have to keep in mind that this is considered as a easy fundraiser program for any group size and the best part is that this certainly does require very little effort so that you can always keep it going.
How to use Flamingos to support your team
The whole idea simply employs deploying few flocks of purple flamingos in the yards of the supporting team fans or even outside their business entrance. You can also try leaving a note that might explain that a particular person has in fact been selected to be flocked and that the flock should stay until the team wins or until the next game. You could also explains that they might have to pay around $10 per purple flamingo so that they can be relocated on a different location if the team looses. One of the best parts is that every fan certainly may also get a chance so that they can in fact select the next fan. This whole process can in fact be continued for a period of time till the team wins the championship.
There are also chances that you might come across a number of people who might in fact not be interested in supporting your team or the humor behind flocking. In case this happens you might just have to try and remove the purple flamingos from their lawn and let the previous recipient make a selection of new victim. In order to get these purple flamingos placed in the lawns might in fact require making little initial investment but you can always make your quick recoup by just placing a few groups of flocking in the lawn. The best result is achieved if you have multiple flamingo flocks doing the job for you at the same time. You might have to try and purchase at least five to six dozen flamingo flocks at the same time so you can have multiple flocking.
You can also try writing up your manifesto for fundraising event and then placing them in a ziplock bag that could be attached to the flock’s legs where they can easily be noticed. When doing this you can always be sure that all the fundraising information along with the fan note can in fact be safe and protected till it is noticed by the new fan. You can also try a number of publicity stunts like the newspaper or the television as they are always looking for humorous story, especially that have been done for a noble cause. You can also try placing this in press release including a number of pictures of the purple flocks in some of the most prominent locations. Try providing your complete information so that others can in fact contact you easily.
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Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| Flamingos have invaded New York |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Flamingos have invaded New York – Yankee fans place Blue and White flamingos in honor of team’s World Series Win.
Plastic flamingos certainly have managed to invade most parts of New York including events for fund raising and even to show their support to their best teams and players. In the past Yankees have managed to gain popularity as best home base ball team and so it has managed to gain more number of fans to its list. Fans like supporting their best teams and players especially at the time of world series, in fact there are fans that are ready to go till any extent just to show their love to their best teams and players. Yankees fan club in Baltimore managed to place flocks of blue and white flamingos on the field to show their support and love to their teams.
So, we can always be sure that there is much more that can be added to base ball besides bats, gloves and baseball and these flamingos can always help in filling that gap. They can be used as an element to show all the support of their fans and at the same time it is also used as a great tool for fundraising for their favorite team. There are a number of fans who also place these blue and white flamingos so that they can help in collecting funds and try to raise money for a number of reasons. The teams can in fact make use of this money for purchasing new uniforms or even for paying for end of year banquets and also for travel expenses.
No matter what ever be the reason for fundraising, a base ball team needs to find a fund raiser who can in fact help them raise the amount of money that is in fact required by the team. There are thousands of fans who are present in the stadium who like watching baseball match so the fund raising organization can always be sure to raise lots of money from their fans. This money is generally used for a noble cause by the organizers and fans so most fans don’t mind making their part of donation in exchange for white and blue flamingos. So when we speak of athletics, these fund raising techniques have been used for a long period of time. There are a number of fans who might not even resist in paying their favorite player or team with the amount they ask as donation, especially if they know that this amount is being collected for a noble cause and may be used for supporting the team or players or even an organization.
No one actually resist purchasing a tub of cookies if it is done for the betterment of their best team. Before you make any such donation you always have to be sure that the fundraising is being done by a registered organization so you are sure that your money shall be used only for noble cause that has been stated by these organizations. There are in fact a number of baseball teams that have been doing similar type of acts for their fund raising events.
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Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| Selling Your Home with Flamingos |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Realtors turn heads by placing flamingos alongside for sale signs.
Lawn signs are always considered as great especially flamingo lawn signs have been made use of for decades and in recent times. This certainly can help in such a way that realtors can advertise their best properties and businesses for sale and at the same time this can also be used to assist general public and organization to head a particular campaign. So if you want general people to know and take notice of your business or even of your property that is for sale or rent, you certainly can never expect to go wrong by placing a flamingo next to the sales sign in your yard or lawn or even in front of your office or the property that is for sale or rent.
If you just try boarding a simple sign in front of the yard it certainly may not be enough to advertise your services as most people might not notice it. Instead you have to try and maximize the best use of promotional tools so you are sure that your sign board might gain notice of each and every person who crosses the front yard. You can always try placing nice pink flamingos just next to the sign so that it might help in boosting your presence as most people might like to wait and see the sign board next to the flamingo bird.
You also have to think of best location for your sign and flamingo flocks as location is always considered as an important key factor. If you want more and more people to notice the flamingo you have to be sure to choose the best location that is visible from different angles. In case you are thinking of advertising your real estate property or your business then it certainly is not a wise decision to place the sign and flamingo in a location that is in fact far off from civilization. You always have to be sure that you choose a spot that is in fact in between civilized world so that more and more people can come in contact with it. You always have to be sure that your flamingo is just place next to the sign board that is in fact strategically positioned.
Always try placing the yard sign in such an area that has high traffic. You can also try placing the sign right in the lawn indicating that you are interested in selling your house or business property. There are a number of realtors who always make use of placing flamingos next to their sale sign so they can gather notice of more and more people. Even if you are a realtor you always have to be sure that you have asked your community and other authorities before actually placing these flamingo lawn signs in your front yard. This might also help in spreading the word of mouth to a number of people who might not just be aware of the event.
You also have to be sure that you try placing right sized sign board next to flamingos so that the sign board is visible easily. Size makes a lot of difference as you never want to place a board that is either too small or too big to be noticed. Always try making it more creative and impressive so that more people are attracted towards it. If you try placing a simple sign that is in black and white it might appear boring to most visitors.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009 |
| Tacky lawn art is a welcome sign |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
A cool article showing how flamingos can bring together communities! Enjoy!
Flamingo parties turning neighbors into friends
By Courtney Flynn |Special to the Tribune, June 5, 2009
A kitschy theme with a retro mascot of sorts might be just the ticket this summer in Northbrook to promote a simple but often elusive goal: getting to know your neighbors.
Residents
are being encouraged to organize Flamingo Fridays, named after the
signature pink plastic flamingo lawn decorations planted in a yard to
let others know about a party there.
The beauty of the events is
their simplicity. They're outdoors -- most often in a driveway -- so
there's no need to clean the house. People bring their own food and
drinks, so there's little preparation. And people come and go as they
please, meaning no obligations or pressure.
Then, as the event
winds down, a partygoer is supposed to take the flamingo and post it in
his or her yard the following week to continue the tradition.
"In
this recession, people want opportunities that don't cost anything,
that aren't complicated where you can still have that contact with
other people," said Maria Doughty, who hosted a Flamingo Friday event
last week that drew about 30 people. "It's old-fashioned, but people
want to feel like there is a sense of community."
While the concept might be new in Northbrook, other suburban neighborhoods have been partying for years.
In
Elgin, for example, one neighborhood hosts Blue Tulip parties. The
events got their start about 10 years ago, when someone picked a tacky,
wooden blue tulip out of the garbage and posted it in a neighbor's
front yard as a joke, organizers said.
The tulip was passed
around, and the idea evolved into having the keeper of the tulip host
an outdoor party on a Friday night. The events sometimes draw more than
100 people, organizers said.
"There's no way we could know all
of our neighbors so well if we didn't see each other so regularly,"
said Kerry Kelly, a 10-year resident of the neighborhood that is home
to the Blue Tulip. "I just think it makes our neighborhood a lot more
cohesive."
In Northbrook, Flamingo Fridays began four years ago
in Doughty's neighborhood after someone borrowed the idea from a
relative in Minneapolis, said Dale Duda, a volunteer with Northbrook's
Community Relations Commission.
The events became so
successful, Duda said, that she took the idea to village officials last
fall in hopes of expanding the parties communitywide.
Initially, there was not a lot of interest, she said, but that changed when she brought the topic up again in January.
The village is not putting any money into Flamingo Fridays but supports the concept, officials said.
In
preparation for the inaugural night as a villagewide event May 29, Duda
said, organizers handed out roughly 50 pink flamingos donated by
bicycle shop owner Jerry Diamond. The initial response couldn't have
been better, she said.
She acknowledged that while the events
have an offbeat motif, they resonate with people by bringing relative
strangers together and creating long-term bonds that might never have
developed otherwise.
"Before the Flamingo Fridays, people came
home from work, the garage door went up, they went inside and you never
saw them again," Duda said.
"Now, when I walk down the street, my arm gets tired from waving to people. It's brought everyone out of their cocoons."
Residents in other Northbrook neighborhoods hope for similar effects from Flamingo Fridays.
"I know the neighbors across the street, but I have no idea who lives
down the block," said Donna Marchand, a 30-year Northbrook resident and
first-time host. "I always tell my husband we should have a block party
and when this came up, it was perfect."
About 45 people flocked
to Marchand's home May 29. She had set up a picnic table on her front
lawn, covered it with a pink tablecloth and spread out homemade deviled
eggs, hot pepper cream cheese spread and Rice Krispie treats.
Matt
Fera, who attended with his 9-year-old son, said he recognized some
neighbors he regularly saw walking down the block, but acknowledged he
didn't know many of their names.
"I leave in the morning, hit
the train, go to work and come home," said Fera, who has lived in his
Northbrook home for about two years. "This is a good way to meet the
neighbors. It brings everyone out."
Duda said she hopes the sense of community will take off.
"They
certainly have made a difference in our neighborhood," Duda said. "They
make it just so easy to get that connection going."
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| World Record! Pink Flamingo Day, June 20th, 2009 |
| Posted by: We Love Flamingos |
Just a quick heads up to everyone. Saturday, June 20th is the official Pink Flamingo Day. Help set a world record by placing 4 or more pink plastic flamingos on your yard. Take a photo and submit them to us at info@plastic-flamingos.com.
Those interested in this event can visit PinkFlamingoDay.com to get
further information. To participate, just set up a display of a minimum
of 4 pink flamingos in a yard with a sign that says, "Celebrating Pink
Flamingo Day! PinkFlamingoDay.com" and take a photo of it. The
association will also accept a short video file in .avi format. Email
your photos and video to admin@lawn-greetings.org along with your name,
contact information and location of the display. The display needs to
be placed in the yard on June 23rd, by 9am and can not be taken down
until 9pm the same night.
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