Parents are bringing the wreath in daily?

My house is set back with a long Drive and someone walked up and stole a Santa Stop Here sign several years ago.
Been vigilant ever since 😂

Wouldn’t have stopped them stealing it. You’d just have footage of the hooded thief and the police wouldn’t have time or inclination to help.

Bit daft to spend that much but I understand why they’d bring it in. Opportunists go around stealing pots of plants so fancy Christmas wreaths would be appealing. Could sell down the pub for £20.

This is not the time for wreath lectures

Mine got stolen one year. I wa so annoyed. It wasn’t expensive but I’d customized it a bit. After that I bought a Nest doorbell.

Do you judge everything they do?

I think this is a great idea. I hope there’s a sense of occasion and ritual each evening.

You mother checks what time the sunset will be. As the moment approaches, your father plays his recording of the last post as he and you mother walk quietly and solemnly to the front door. Your mother stands to attention as your father opens the front door. They both look at the wreath. Your father removes it and turns to face your mother. He bows his head and she salutes. He hands her the wreath. She takes it and bows her head. They both turn to face the door and take two steps back. Your father closes and locks the door. They turn (clockwise) and walk back into the living room, where your mother places the wreath on its cushion, ready for the reverse ceremony at sunrise the next day.

Obviously, roles are reversed on alternate days.

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Well I suppose its their choice but I wouldn’t bother. I have a posh wreath but live on a nice little estate next to a fairly dodgy area. Ive used cable ties to secure it to one if those metal over-the-door hangers so I dont think its going anywhere. Someone would hve to be very determined to nick it. The ring doorbell would video them in the act too so theyd have to be pretty stupid.

Love it! Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!

My Halloween skeleton (£3 from Tiger) was stolen from my front door so I say bring it in.I have a wreath but I've tied it with wire to the hook and now have a ring doorbell so at least I can watch it being nicked.

For £60 it won't be plastic, but real foliage, so i can understand bringing it in.

I'm going to a wreath making workshop tomorrow. £5 for the ring and i bring my own foliage. Even then, I'd be sad if it got nicked off my door.....

Not to mention the ‘mental load’ of having to remember this ‘admin task!’

Halfway through reading this thread I've just done the same! It's sentimental as DC made it when small so I'd not forgive myself if my laziness meant we lost it to this weather!

Unhook wreath from door, place in hallway, it's hardly onerous. I had mine nicked a while back. Walking the dog a few days later and I saw it on the door of a neighbour's house down the road. I reclaimed it.

I have a friend who is a Policeman covering an area which includes a little village. He's regularly kept busy with plant pot theft, poaching and other such rural affairs.
I shall ask him about incidences of wreath wrangling when we next speak.

I get where you are coming from but you'd be surprised how often things like that go missing. Sometimes a few lively people who have had a bit to drink think it is a lark to take something like that even though they don't normally steal. A few years ago I found one on my doorstep, no idea where it came from and could only assume that somebody thought it was funny to nick the wreath from one house and leave it at another. I put it on my front wall and it went - I would like to think the owners took it but don't know.

It doesn't hurt for your parents to take it in at night so why worry.

I live rurally and not worried about it getting stolen but I have brought it in tonight as it’s getting battered to fuck in the wind and rain.

It is funny to picture this. There's something pleasingly unfestive about the obsessive worry about it being stolen. And a wreath is quite a prickly and unwieldy thing to be bringing in every night. So YANB holly unreasonable.

Their wreath, their choice!

Unless they’re expecting you to bring it in every night, leave them to it!

Be confident in the fact you’ll have your own thing that someone else makes fun of and doesn’t make sense.

My parents had a large and very heavy hanging basket full of bedding plants stolen. Some fecker must have given themselves a hernia lifting it down. I replaced it as it was a present from me. Dad couldn’t lift it down to put it safe at night so he rigged up several padlocks and chains.
The following year he asked me not to do a basket as it caused him worry. That made me sad. Bastards!

Given I have to let bastard cat do the door Hokey Cokey every evening I can’t see bringing a wreath in is very onerous. I don’t bother but stuff generally doesn’t get nicked round here, famous last words…

Hardly an onerous task. I double lock my front door when I go to bed each night. It would take me all of ten seconds while I was there to open the door and bring in a wreath, if I had one.

That.

Given how much we all resent any parental criticism, you criticising your parents for doing something as innocuous as taking care of something they value, seems pretty mean-spirited @ThePerkyCoralPoet . Why try to make them feel shit when they're doing nothing wrong?

Why does it matter to you?

Shocked that people do this.

Personally I wouldn’t want the faff and I’d either take the risk or not have a wreath. But I think you should leave your parents to it, assuming they’re of sound mind and not risking life and limb.