Ok so myself and neighbour share a hedge, its actually on my property so my hedge, but separates both houses. For an eternity, every single christmas, neighbour likes to invite poundland to throw up in her garden choose carefully selected christmas lights to make her house look as trashy as possible.
This is my ds's first christmas where he will notice things and hes already loving the lights we see in shops so i thought i'd buy a large net of lights to put over this hedge, be a bit different from neighbours 2 lines of fairy lights. I also bought 2 large snowflake things for the front windows and some stars to go around the door. As i was putting them up this morning neighbour came back from doing her shopping and just stood there staring with her mouth wide open in horror, i said hiya, she said hiya back then went in.
Dp says i should have asked her if it was ok - err ask her if its ok to put christmas lights on my own hedge? Im not even that bloody bothered about them just thought it would be nice for ds to look at, which is why ive never bothered doing anything like this before.
Now neighbours have been arguing all day about various things but they keep coming back to the bleeding lights and how ive apparently taken over? (walls are paper thin, they argue quite a lot, never about christmas lights though) Should i just take them down? I dont really see why the fuss if im honest but she is a bit obsessive about everything, for example shes the type to put her wheely bin in her parking space right outside her house. She hates anyone parking within an inch of her house, yet her and her teenage children can park where they feel like. So the great christmas lights debacle of 2013 will keep her moaning for quite a while.
AIBU?
To not be so bothered that neighbour is now pissed off with me? (boring xmas lights thread)
1980schick · 30/11/2013 20:56
OP you reminded me of a photo I saw on fb. In it were two houses, the first completely covered in lights/decorations. The lights on the second house were simply an arrow pointing at the first house with twat underneath.
Just sayin' like 
Btw YANBU
Even more of a priority than the hedge adornments is to get cavity wall insulation sorted out 
Hopefully your net of lights have at least 10 settings (twinkle, sparkle, strobe, glow, Blackpool illuminations etc, etc) so you can give your neighbours a great performance for the next 4 weeks
It'd be rude not to.
Ok - live update, shes outside now putting her crap up, so far 20 bunches of fake flowers, multi coloured icicle lights down the opposite fence, santa signs, santa stp here and live santa countdown 
. again her youngest child is 15/16 so its obviously for herself she does all this.
Nothing on the hedge tho....yet!
I can't quite picture it op. A photo may help...
haha, im not brave enough to go and ask if she can stand proudly by her fake flower field decorated with multicoloured strobing lights, as the people of mumsnet would like some inspiration for their own gardens. 
may get dp to take a pic from the upstairs window later though!
Oh yes please, photos. How many outdoor electrical sockets do the have? If her fake flowers are in the ground and/or wrapped round shrubs, if it snows they will all be covered up.
Oooh I've never put outside lights up but am planning on doing it this year; are there rules I need to follow? Marking my place
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Oooh I've never put outside lights up but am planning on doing it this year; are there rules I need to follow?
Yes, Don't put tacky lights on your neighbours hedge!!!!
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