In the intro to this board it says something about...does your neighbor have a gnome collection and is it making you mad? Think about it. If your neighbor DID have a gnome collection, are you the type of person who would get mad and aggravated by it, or would you find yourself looking for other gnomes to go with them? Me? I would probably keep my eye out for gnomes (on sales, of course) when I was shopping so I could add to the menagerie. Besides, it would be in HER yard, not mine! LOL! And passing by it everyday would make me smile. Have a super day!

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Yes me too. I would look for interesting gnomes. Might even commission a joke one from a local potter.

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I wouldnt care I kinda like gnomes, their easier on the eyes than the 5 foot flamingo I've seen around here ICK

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Knowing our HOA, nobody around here would have ANY kind of collections setting out in their front yard! LOL

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Have you ever seen the movie 'Amelie'... if not, you have to see it (in regards to the gnome). It's a hoot... the traveling gnome!

exactly what I was going to say! It would never be a problem here

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I would be annoyed. I hate that kind of thing. And every time I saw it my blood pressure would rise.

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I would probably BE the neighbor with the gnomes. I don't have any, but want them lol

LOL. I did buy a gnome at a yard sale and give it to the neighbors to add to the few that they have in their yard. I find it cute that they have stuff like that in their yard. Now, pink flamingos might annoy me a bit, but the gnomes are cute.

I would also think they were cute and maybe buy a few for my yard too. A neighbor has a goose that she dresses for each holiday and I really like it.

I could careless what my neighbors have in their yards. Now if only they felt the same way. If they would leave me alone with my yard full of bikes/trampoline/pool...

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I am one of those gnome people....sorta. Here is the story...

My parents have lived in the same house for over 30 years now. The neighborhood hasn't changed much, but some of the older people have moved on or passed on....and now, my parents are the old people on the block. When our next door neighbor Emily the piano teacher passed on, her house was sold to a HORRIBLE uptight woman, who decided that she was better than everyone on the block and was rude and snooty. People came over to welcome her...and one person even baked her muffins...which she wouldn't even take, saying "she doesn't eat carbs, and certianly wouldn't accept food from a stranger's kitchen." My mother was hurt, along with a few other families who had spent the better part of their lives raising their kids there and helping each other out. I told my poor mother to just ignore her and to be patient, she might come around....

This woman turned out to be a horror show. She called the police on the kids across the street, because they were loud and defacing public property (they were drawing with chalk on the sidewalks). She put up a large privacy fence and these crazy motion sensing spotlights that woulg go off in a bird even flew by...and one of the lights would beam right into my parents bedroom. When I would talk to my mother, I would tell her that the woman was mental, and just try to stay away from her.

I totally changed my tone when I got a call from my mother crying. This woman decided that the flowering bush my mother had planted when we moved in back in the 70's was too big and crossing over her property line, so she took a hedge clipper to in and end up killing it. She also called the city and told them my parents garage was an eyesore and needed to be attended to. The city came out and said there was some chipped paint on the side, and advised them they wouldn't be getting a ticket or anything, but maybe they should have it painted just to keep the peace in the neighborhood.

I had enough.

Right after I paid to have the garage painted and new bushes planed for my mother, I went out and bought 30 pink flamingos. I had a survey done on my parent's property and had them flag exactly 1 foot from the front yard property line. I spent the better part of an afternoon placing every flamingo in just the right spot....facing her house. I got a lawn chair and cool drink, and waited for her to come home from work.

She pulled into the driveway, and flew out of her car. She went nuts. I just sat in the chair and sipped my drink. I didnt' repsond to her sreaming at me until she put her hands on one of the flamingos. That's when all 6 feet, 180 lbs of me flew up exactly 2 feet from the property line and reminded her who's lawn she was crossing into. I told her that all 30 of my flamingos were going to stay there for the next week, and if even one is missing or damaged, it will be replaced along with 10 more new friends. I also pointed out the place on the lawn that I would be conducting Gnome Masterpeice Theater. I told her that we would be re-enacting important moments in history --like Washington crossing the Deleware or the sinking of the Titanic --all with gnomes...and I would spare no expense, because the kids in the neighborhood would love it.

That was 5 years ago. The flamingos were only up for a week. She remains unfriendly and stuck up, but she doesn't call the police or the city anymore.

I'm thinking it was the idea of a Gnome invasion that got to her

I have an (indoor) collection of Tom Clark gnomes.

One of our neighbors didn't like the 3 large bushes we had next to his driveway and dear DH let him cut them down!!!!!
One was a Rose of Sharon and since my name is Sharon, I especially liked it.
So now I am thinking about what I will plant there now.
Maybe my dear DH? A JOKE, JUST A JOKE!
Think I could find about a dozen gnomes with their tongues stuck out that I could line up facing his driveway?
Or dogs with their legs lifted?

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OMG Kelliiiii, that is so great!! Did you get pictures???

P.S. I gotta admit, I'm not a fan of yards with more statues and crap in them than could fit in the entire footprint of the home. I'm also not a fan of holiday decorations and lights left up year round. So, I guess I'm kind of a snot myself. Who would have thought that!

Kelliii

I want to come over to your house to play---you sound like my kind of person!

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I've seen gnomes that are mooning maybe you could get some of those :-)

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I love the story about the flamingos and the threat of the Gnome Masterpeice Theater! LOL! Thanks for the laughs!

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that gnome invasion story is hilarious!

we have one house in the neighborhood that has large (5 feet high?) wooden cutouts painted to look like kids peeing on the fence, another cutout of a kid covering their eyes as they look at the other cutouts that are peeing...
tacky but it doesn't really bother me lol -

I get annoyed at people whose lawn is filthy, trashy...had a house in our area inhabited by pigs who would dump their old engine oil & other liquids from their car, right onto their own yard, and the sidewalk and street! they would also arrive home at 2am after four wheeling, scrape big piles of mud off the auto onto the sidewalk, then celebrate by running up and down the street whooping and smacking their stomachs together. at 2am yes.

sorry that was OT! anyway
thank goodness those neighbors were kicked out, not sure that poor lawn will ever recover from the oil and antifreeze and all the other car stuff they poured on it. gaaaaaah!

I LOVE it. Can I live in your neighborhood? Kudos

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