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!

This.

Alright. Calm down love

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This.

It's at least 6 weeks until Christmas, sticking Christmas decs up this early is absurd imo. It makes Christmas seem less special when it's shoved in people's faces for the best part of 2 months.

I'd like a law that makes it illegal to display anything Christmassy, or play Christmas music in a public place (other than for purposes of rehearsal) before 1st December or after 12th night.

One of the reasons I'm less of a fan of Christmas than I used to be is because it seems to go for so fucking long.

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Most of us don't want to start having a Merry Christmas in November, love.

I totally agree.

I'd like a law that makes it illegal to display anything Christmassy, or play Christmas music in a public place (other than for purposes of rehearsal) before 1st December or after 12th night.
Me too. Except I would make the start date the start of Advent rather than 1 December and the end date would be fixed as 6 January. If anyone is going to put up Christmas decorations I would make it mandatory they stay up for the full 12 days.

No she’s not BU actually, the fact you think it’s normal to put anything in your neighbors garden means you lack boundaries.

That’s just sad.. I know it can be a tough time for a lot of people but for others it’s a happy time to see family and celebrate. I wouldn’t get worked up over one decoration.. the shops put their trees up the day after Halloween..

Yes this. These Christmas-in-November arseholes always pull down their decorations by the third day of Christmas, filling social media with their misery.

But it is not until right at the end of November, often early December.

It’s not sad 😅 most of us grow out of Xmas as adults, it’s more for the kids

Advent starts on Sunday, 27 November this year.

Sainsbury's had live mini Christmas trees in pots yesterday.
I didn't buy one because I'd kill it before the start of Advent.

I'd like it to be permanently banned :) Bah Humbug.

I just harvested the last tomatoes this week. So, yes too early for z Christmas decs.
The are actually a few green toms there today, but I just find myself looking at them unbelievably.

@mam0918 Yes, decorations may go up at first advent, but that's the last sunday of november, the 27th! This neighbour was already at it before Remembrance Day!

It is very disrespectful before Remembrance Sunday, I agree. Anyway the neighbour had a cheek putting items in someone's garden no matter when they did it, it is an invasion of privacy. Maybe the OP I could define the boundary with a fence or low brick wall. If I lived there I would have "lost" it under cover of darkness!🎄>🚮

Post through their door a letter from the residents association ...
Outdoor Christmas decorations
The residents association stipulates the only permitted outdoor Christmas decoration to be street facing are natural foliage door wreaths.
These shall only be displayed from Advent to the Twelfth Night

Yes, I know the user name mentions the Grinch, but OP never said she didn't like Christmas. It would be Grinchy to try to take out an injunction to prevent them putting outdoor decorations up, but that isn't what's happening.

I agree with everyone who's said that it devalues Christmas to start it at the beginning of November. It's special for several reasons, some religious, some not; either way it's not nearly so special if it covers 1/6 of the year. Since I'm not the dictator of the UK, however, I accept that people have the right to do it if and when they want to. BUT: they don't have the right to sneak anything, even seasonal decorations (in or out of season!) onto my property without asking. That way lies "oh but I didn't think you'd mind" with visitors' cars, plants, building works and eventually expanding their fence in your direction for some threadbare reason - I've been there! (XH had a firm word, rather uncharacteristically for him, and they moved it back again.)

I think if it were my flower bed - not that anyone would decorate my splendid collection of brambles - I'd just take the bloody thing out and place it politely on their pathway, and keep doing that until they got the hint. No arguments, no damage, just returning what they had unwontedly bestowed on me.

Can't believe people would be ok with this. Could be Christmas Day, you don't put your crap on someone else's property!

On your land, tell them to remove it or do so yourself. My neighbours put fairy lights on our shared fence. That's fine but we don't celebrate Xmas so I wouldn't want inflatables or the like on my drive.

I'm famous! (Ok so it's the Scum and they just quoted my comment, but still!) 😂😂

Of course it's not sad. What an odd comment.

I'd have to disagree with you there, 12 days of Xmas, up 12 days before and down 12 days after