A Gardeners Forum Forums Willy's Place The Further Misadventures of Wild Willy Episode #23... Wild Willy's Deal of the Century!

I'm sorry but the Willy seeds are no longer available!
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Be the first on your block to be the proud owner of this highly desirable, very limited first edition Wild Willy Collectible!

Wild Willy's autograph has a value in excess of $5! Ask Garden~Mom!
Other rarer Willy collectibles are Priceless... Ask Cindy how much she wants for hers!
Just imagine the potential value of this new, rare find, autographed by Willy himself!!!!

I thank you too!

$1,500,000.00 for Bill's ponytail
$1,000,000. for the first (possibly ONLY) "Garden Helper" t-shirt in existance...
...worn by Mr. Bill.

Cindy Sue

Very soon!

You own two one-of- a -kinds...
I got the t-shirt as a bonus when I first registered my domain name!
The pony tail took a long time to grow and a lot of Jack Daniels to cut off!

all kidding aside...
I think it would be a terrific idea to have t-shirts or coffeecups!

I second that!

I did it! I think the t-shirt idea would be great but I couldn't pay over ten dollars for it and that would even pay for the shipping.

I'll have you know the price went up!!! It's now worth $5.25,up from $5.15

I think the idea of T-Shirts is GREAT

I'm in for a t~shirt as well! Or a Coffee house coffee mug...what ever...

This is a great gesture of your kindness Mr. Bill...offering the seeds...

Thanks for helpin Jenn...(who is helping a lot of others)

I keep hearing that! What did you all have in mind? What would you like? How much will this grand idea cost? You know that my main aim is to keep you all happy!

Uhhh ohhhhh Bill....you are asking for twubble now.

I think that is commonly referred to as the "foot in mouth" disease... but you know me... I tend to thrive on (or get into a lot of) twubble at times!

Okay I will be good!

This time!!!!!


Now can I get a mug and several T-shirts?

I think that is a great idea about the coffee cups and shirts....but I want to make sure you aren't out any money making them.
My guess is buying a significant quantity at one time would probably be less expensive overall than to make just a few several times.

Maybe artistic Cindy could help in the design????
I really don't know how they go about making them so I wouldn't be of any help!

Idea's Wild Willy???...the rose???

There are several places that you can get stuff printed at a resonable price....I sure like the Wild Willy idea...and/or Cindy Faye might have a lot better idea! I know we don't have a lot of men on the forum...but I don't know how they would feel about wearing a rose....

I would love a T~shirt...but man, drinking out of a GH mug every morning while yapping in the coffee house would be pretty darn neat as well!

I'd like to see Wild Willy or the Hummingbird House on a shirt...and of course it would have to be signed by Willy too

Hmmm...I might be able to come up with a screenprinting "connection" from my sign business days. I used to have hats, t-shirts, mugs etc. with my sign company logo printed on them. I found a box of my old ball caps the other day. :rolleyes:

I used to get that stuff pretty cheap...


Cindy

Yay, Cindy has connections maybe...that's great!

I agree with what Karen said, about not wanting you to be out of money doing this...I'd scrape the money together for a shirt or two...and a mug or two....I wouldn't be able to pick between mugs or t shirts....

My sister in law does mugs and T~shirts right now..
She's got a business out of her basement....

She does the shirts that have them right into
the fabric, not ironed on..
Very Cool!!!

She could make them for us cheap then!
Does she give you a "family discount"?


Cindy

I will have to ask her....

What would the stuff say?

Have you ever heard of a T~shirt company
called Carolina T's??
I used to order shirts from there,
a long, long time ago..*sounds like there's a
song in there somewhere's*
And they had the best, very reasonable shirts??
They had a company in Calif.. and Indiana too,
I think..
*the best long sleave T~shirts too*

You know, I'm just thinking that it would be kind of cool if there were a couple of choices made up for the T's/mugs for us to pick from.....then if we found a good company we could choose which picture we wanted and pay for it ourselves--that way Bill wouldn't be taking on any cost, and I know it's cheaper to buy in big quantities, but I'm just thinking 0 cost to Bill is probably best......Cindy you're fantastic at graphics.....I'll bet you could think up a few really cool things.

Just my recent thoughts on it all.....although Weezie, if your SIL could do it to where she'd still make a profit, but below full price that would be fantastic too!

I'm likin that idea really well!
Yep...nobody (especially Mr. Bill)needs to be out any money on the project! We have enough members here that I think we could get a bunch to order to make it worth doing!
And you know..it would be great advertisement!!!

I will ask her tonight!!

"it would be great advertisement"
*Vanessa has a good point there....so it would also need the www. addy big enough to read from a ????? distance.

*It would really be nice if it had designs on both the front and back.

*And a nice thicker t-shirt please...the kind that if they are white don't show every design of the bra!!!

*Thought... ghelper magnets for our vehicles.???? Big enough to read from at least a car length behind....They stick the way the support our military ribbons do.

I have been pondering the idea of having T-shirts, coffee mugs and bumper stickers printed up for quite a while now. My thoughts leaned more toward giveaways and contest prizes more than selling them but the cost has kept me more or less quiet.

The advertising aspect would be great, but in my mind, I would rather that you wore a Gardener's Forum shirt as a matter of pride and unity in belonging to such a great group of gardening friends and family.

My original vision was of a fairly small monogram (4"x4"?) GH rose with The Gardener's Forum arched over the rose and www.TheGardenHelper.com in a straight line beneath. I like the Wild Willy in place of the rose as well (did someone say "vanity, ego and a swoolen head"?)
When we find out what kind of pricing is involved, we may be able to offer options for the two designs. My own tastes in T-shirts would make my preference be just the monogram on the front, but Hummingbird House might look nice as a larger print on the back too!

I HATE those thin T-shirts! I would insist on nice thick, highest quality shirts. Another question that has come to mind is the color of the shirt. A standard color (white?) would probably be cheaper to produce, but I'd hate to dictate that you had to wear my color choice!
Same thing for the coffee mugs... Big and Bold! When you are having your morning cup of coffee you gotta be thinking "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm GOOD!" about both the coffee and your cup!


I thought about peel and stick bumper stickers but magnets never crossed my mind... This is something that we could look into. (I heard there is a bird around here that used to make a living printing commercial, magnetic truck signs... Maybe she would consider giving us a price quote for a couple different sizes)

Another possibility that I started to explore last week was printing out some of those "iron on" appliques. The cost would only be about $2.50 for a 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 sheet (could be 4 "monograms" or a single giant Hummingbird House.) The cost of mailing would be next to nothing. I've never tried them so I don't know about the quality compared to screen printed shirts, and that is why I hesitate to suggest that option... but there IS that option.

It makes me very proud to think that you all would like to own a forum T or mug! Thank you!!!