Wasted $60 on glow-in-the-dark garden gnomes that barely glow

I ordered these gnomes from an Etsy shop that promised they'd light up the whole garden path. They're basically just regular gnomes with a faint green smear after sitting in the sun for 8 hours. Anybody know a way to make cheap garden decorations actually glow without breaking the bank?

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shane_williams13d ago

Did you leave them in direct sunlight all day? I swear mine needed like 10 hours of UV just to hold a charge for maybe 20 minutes... total joke. I bought a set of little plastic mushrooms from a different Etsy seller that were supposed to be "ultra bright" and they ended up looking like faded stickers. Ended up just buying a bunch of cheap solar stake lights from the grocery store and hot gluing them to the gnomes' hats. Works way better actually, even if they look a bit cursed standing there glowing from the head.

marywells13d ago

Oh I feel your pain, I REALLY do. Those "glow" products are usually a total SCAM in my experience. I bought some glow星星 from a craft store once and they were exactly the same - barely visible even in the pitch dark. You'd be better off getting some cheap solar path lights from Walmart and just painting them with glow paint yourself.