Parents are bringing the wreath in daily?

[ThePerkyCoralPoet]

I went to visit parents and they’ve been wringing their light up wreath in daily from the front of the house. It cost them £60 and they think someone might steal it from the most rural and quiet area ever. Aibu for telling them it’s stupid.

Wow, I had never even considered people steal a wreath?! Even so, I think you should either run the risk and put it up and leave it up or don't bother. It could be stolen during the day.

My door wreath is made from razor cut flexible metal was originally to go around a light . Really sharp if the fuckers try & nick it they will cut their hands. All with the joy of Christmas. Season of giving 🎁

Around here the only way to ensure a wreath stayed on your front door was to rig it up to the mains.

I think it's silly to buy a light up one and take it indoors every night. If it had no lights on, fine.

You could point out that someone could just as easily take it during the day?

I really didn’t know stealing wreaths (and PP mentioned potted plants) were a thing!

@RisingSunn oh yes it's very much a thing stealing wreaths and outside decorations.

@RisingSunn you live a sheltered life.

We replanted the flower beds in front of our block of flats prior to mother's day in 2022. Some fucker drove along around 05:00 and removed almost all the new plants. They hadn't really bedded in well yet at this point so were easy to remove. He got about 20 of them.

We thought it was probably a gift for his Mum. I hope she knew they were stolen and was ashamed of him.

EDIT: we got the car reg from the building CCTV but the police weren't interested.

Yep I've had mine stolen don't bother now. I lived in a flat at the time too.

I worry about mine being stolen and it only cost me £20 in a sale, I firmly stick it to my door with this strong double sided glue tape thing (sorry, I don't remember the name of it 🙈), but i stick it on in in multiple places and it holds really well, takes some getting back off the door after Christmas though 🤣 thankfully it's pvc so doesn't mark. I probably wouldn't advise it on a wooden door

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.

Why does it matter to you?

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?

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…

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!

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.

Their wreath, their choice!

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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!

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

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.....