To ask my neighbour to take down Christmas decorations from my garden?

[MotherofGrinches]

I came home and saw that my neighbours had decorated their house ready for Christmas.

They had put one of their Christmas decorations on my garden without checking with me first. They seemed annoyed when I (very politely) asked them to put it on their own driveway instead.

So, was I being unreasonable? It was very close to the boundary, so I thought about letting it go, but it's a long time until Christmas!

I'm less diplomatic. I would have just pulled it out of my property and thrown it on their drive

Did you move it in the end @MotherofGrinches

Sorry if you've already said so, but I can't find it. May be covered by an ad.

This.

Not even is it nowhere near advent, we haven’t had Remembrance Sunday yet. That is a line in the sand for me with Christmas shit like this. Disrespectful. Every year we here ‘but what harm is it doing blah blah blah’. It’s too early. Put it away.

Hear not here! 🙄

My porch shares a roof with the adjoining house. One Christmas, the first for my new neighbours, I awoke to a gentle splatting sound from my bedroom window. Opened the curtains to see an enormous blinking inflatable Father Christmas bouncing around on the porch roof. If that wasn't bad enough, when he deflated he flopped over the front door and exiting the house became a bit of a wrestling match! Some people are really quite entitled.

It might feel like three years, but the awfulness started March 2020. It’s not even been two years yet.

Yes it has - just counting on my fingers… nearly three years - doh!

Time has no meaning since 2020!

I love Christmas, hell, I absolutely fucking adore Christmas --- in December BUT.... For me, it doesn't matter what the item is, what the month is, how much it is on the absolute edge of your land, it's the fact that it is just that, on your land. No you are nbu, not one little bit

Advent begins 27th Nov

It's a bit petty. How is them using a couple of inches of soil in your flower bed next to their driveway going to affect you in any way?

Nah, regardless of how early it might be for Christmas decorations, nobody has any right to put their random shit in your garden and you're well within your rights to ask them to remove it

THIS! 🤣🤣🤣

If I understand this correctly . They cane onto your property and pushed a stake I to your flowerborder . Have therey damaged plants ? I would be hopping mad . I would also be sending them a bill for damage to my flower bed . That is so wrong . If your trees hung over their property they have the right to trim back to the propert boundary and stuff the trmimgs branches etc on your land . You have a right to stuff it back on their property.

I don't blame you. Your property, so they have no right. Apart from which it's ridiculously early. What is the matter with people? Traditionally decorations were put up on Christmas Eve, but I wouldn't want to do that, because too many other things going on at that time, and I like them to be up for a couple of weeks at least. Mid November is insane.

If this is as big as your problems get then consider yourself very lucky.

Pull it out of your flower bed & put it in theirs. Problem solved.
They should she spoken to you before assuming.

Still a while til advent - 27 November!

I bet most people think advent starts on 1st December as that is when you open your advent calendar

I also assume people who festoon the outside of their house with plastic tat Xmas decorations are not doing it for religious reasons

Who are you? The bloody grinch. YABU. Just put up with it and have a Merry Christmas love!

She can have a merry Christmas at Christmastime, which it currently isn’t.

I get it's November and putting decorations up now really isn't to my taste but come on it's not doing you any harm is it. Why be so miserable

If this happened at our house (unlikely), I would defer to my DC. Youngest would love anything like this and if he's happy, I'm happy!

A diagram or photo would be useful. I couldn’t get upset about this.

as for timing, I let the dog out for a pee last night and our neighbour was putting up Xmas lights at 11.30pm!