Grandpa Decorates His House To Look Nicer, Receives A Poison Pen Letter From Hateful Neighbors
A person’s land is their kingdom. Their house is their castle. And if they’re not harming anyone, it’s their — and only their — business to run it however they want. However, this simple concept is apparently too difficult for some to understand.
Three days ago, Twitter user @goldenstef posted a picture of a disgusting letter her grandpa had received. In it, his neighbors ridicule his house decorations, saying they’re ‘excessive’ and ‘bad taste.’ The senders signed it as ‘decent, middle-class people’ but the contents of the letter clearly show they’re anything but. I mean, how self-conscious and insecure they must feel if the only way they can raise their self-esteem is to diminish others?
The perfect example of how to a trash human being went viral on Twitter, generating over 236K likes and 5.4K comments, many of which are sending the elderly man their best wishes. Let’s hope they will cheer him up!
Here’s the full letter
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After the letter went viral, the Internet got to see the house, too
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The granddaughter of the recipient said they think the decorations aren’t bad at all, and many agreed with her on the Internet. “We’re still looking for the people who sent it and when we find out who…” she added. “I’m so mad and sad at the same time and they didn’t leave a return address.”
Even if the man and his granddaughter were to ask around, trying to find out who could’ve written the letter, chances are, they would run into some trouble. According to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, the majority of Americans (57%) say they know only some of their neighbors; far fewer (26%) say they know most of them.
And everyone thought it was anything but embarrassing
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This house is in my city. First of all, Thunderbird Hills isn't a particularly upscale or expensive neighborhood at all. Second, the "decent, middle-class [white] people who wrote this disgusting letter are by far the MINORITY in this area. I'm white, but I love this city and its culture which is predominantly Hispanic and rich in history. Those people need to move to Bigotville.
Can we start up a fund so you can buy this person some more decorations for their yard?
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Maybe I'm spiteful, but I'd be going ALL OUT with the decorations after receiving that letter
If it were me, I'd get all the plastic flamingos I could find and put them up.
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I skimmed through the letter, imagining garish over-the-top decorations... Then saw the picture and thought, "You lost your s**t over THIS???!"
There's a house down the street that... I'm not a fan of. They have a Packers theme, with columns they painted gold (they added columns on their single story ranch style house), and a packers flag in one window, other flags for window covers, weird wind chimes and stuff hanging up, and constantly having stuff thrown on their yard including stuff they leave out until it's ruined then still wait for a bit before finally throwing it out. It's not cute. But, guess what, I don't live there! It doesn't pay to let it bother you that much. I would LOVE to have this guy's house over the one that I actually live by though.
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I don't see anything outrageous w decorations or plants. I say we rally and REALLY give grandpa some help with decorations if he wants to go BIG he can do WHATEVER he wants. What TOTAL RUBBISH. Classy people do NOT be mean or judgemental to their neighbors. Nor do they leave chicken sh** notes stating small minded opinions
I certainly don't see any pot plants on the lawn - or even a lawn.
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This person who wrote this letter is beyond hateful and rude and I can't believe that anyone would write a horrible letter like this to this elderly gentleman. Keep on decorating, Grandpa. The internet has your back.
"The decent middle-class people with Class" ... are we all snort laughing yet?
we so are lol at the pure stupidity and arrogance of the "decent middle-class white people with class" they're not decent white people, not even decent humans
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"Land of the free" means also "Free to decorate my home as I want to and I give a f*ck what you are thinking about"
The way they were describing his house I was assuming it would be loaded with Christmas ornaments in the middle of summer or maybe a bunch of rusty, old lawn ornaments...but no. I don’t see what the issue is. They’re just jerks
He lives in an arid climate and is putting out arid-climate-loving plants. Good for him. It's called "horticulture". And as Dorothy Parker famously quipped, and that letter-writer proves, you can lead a ....... to culture but you can't make 'em think. Go, Grandpa!
What does the letter writer mean by "planting 'pot plants in middle of lawn`? I expected to see weed growing in front lawn. Looks like regular plants to me.
I've always wondered about Americans and how they think it's completely OK to have an opinion and demands on other people's properties. Entitled much? What horrible people do these things!
Unfortunately, people like this, believe that because we have free speech in America and therefore they can say whatever they want.
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The house is clean. The yard is maintained and the hedges are trimmed. I had to look up where Thunderbird Hill is, and, yep, cacti and xeriscaping make good sense in Texas. Grandpa's doing a bang up job with his place and should be right proud of it. Whoever wrote that letter is a small-minded, mean-spirited, extremely unhappy little individual who's just trying to make himself feel better by hurting someone else.
When I first moved into my house, my husband and I painted it peach (a vibrant peach, almost orange). We had compliments, but there was one little old lady that stood in front of my house, yelling at me to paint it white. I just laughed at her. Made her crazy. Now it's bright blue. And we've gotten 2 other neighbors to paint their's vivid colors. Take that!
You call sending an anonymous letter to talk sh*t about other peoples choice of style decent? Pffft....
Not to mention the fact that you said other people are laughing at them.
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You had the guts to write the letter but we're to chicken to sign your name.....typical.
The letter proves exactly who has no class, and it ain't the grandpa Well done for having your own styling preferences and the creativity and enthusiasm to express it! Don't stop until you have a forest of cacti
From what I was reading, I expected the house to be covered in ornaments and have pot-plants sitting on the lawn, still in the pots! I was surprised when I scrolled down and saw the photos. The house isn't overly decorated and at least the pot-plants are not in their pots. The only thing about them is the plants across the lawn must make it difficult to mow - and I very much doubt the letter-writer is going to be doing the mowing.
To me it looked like patches of the lawn are dead, or at least sunbleached. And that's probably the only negative thing I saw in those pictures. It otherwise looked like a well maintained, much-loved home, with a lawn that needs some TLC. And thats really nobody's business but the homeowner.
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What was wrong? The decorations were far from excessive. There is house in my suburb who has gone crazy with giant stuffed toys hanging off his big Gum Tree. My concern is when water logged they could break branches and hit people walking past. This poor family doesn’t come near the soft toy man.
This is a case of “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything!” I honestly think the house looks nice and how would these people feel if their grandfather was harassed about his house?This is unnecessary and the people who wrote the letter need to mind their own business!
Does this neighborhood have a homeowners' association, and is this person a part of it? Because otherwise, there's nothing to prevent this homeowner from spray painting 'My house is MY house' on their front lawn. PS: if I got this sort of attitude in this neighborhood, I'd plant a whole lot more cacti, plus brambles and poison sumac. Make 'em work for it to leave condescending letters.
"It makes absolutely no sense to have 'plants' in the middle of your lawn". It makes absolutely no sense to have lawns. I had to read the letter to figure out what the "problem" was with that house. It's easy to say that the complainers need to just f**k off, but municipal regulations and HOAs give people way too much power to cause havoc in their neighbors' lives.
and the purpose of a lawn is to have plants and space.
Load More Replies... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Guess these A-holes have no eye or manners, where to people get the nerve to do something like this? I you don't like your surroundings any more - MOVE - a******s like you aren't wanted in a nice middle class neighborhood ! (Did any one find out who theses morons are?) Perhaps something burning like a cross should be placed in their front yard! Only a suggestion now.
The house looks great—their real problem is with the person who lives IN the house.
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What the actual f**k? Imagine having such a pathetically empty life that you feel the need to write such a letter.
this made me really angry because 1 its so rude 2 my dad is mexican and 3 let the dude decorate his house its not like its your house i honestly like it and whoever sent that letter WAY TO BE A KAREN
Why is it that the people with the smallest brains and the tiniest hearts do so much damned reproducing?
hugss for your grandpa. I received a (of course) anonimous letter because there are three lampions on suncells on my balcony (did the beads myself) ... someone doesnt like that... screw him/her IMG_201905...52ad3a.jpg 
First of all "decent" people aren't racist. I really can't stand these types of people in society, anytime someone does something a little different they s**t themselves because it's just sooo offensive not to follow the rest of the herd...god forbid someone adds a little color to their lives and makes the world a more interesting place to live.
They should post the letter in their neighborhood Facebook page so the neighbors can see how "ridiculous" they look and laugh at them.
I wish this was my grandpa. I would help him decorate even more. Plus I would find the letter writer and they would get a dose of good old fashioned come uppance.
The writers of this letter are obvious racists and clearly have no decency and no class.
correct all the grammatical and spelling errors, frame is, add it to the outside of your house as a new decoration for them to see :) Boomer doesn't even know how to use a computer hahaha. Trying to be some retro Tom Hanks and failing miserably. (Tom Hanks collects typewriters fyi)
It looks like the homeowner is moving away from an environmentally costly lawn toward one that uses less water and takes less upkeep. Building a cactus/succulent garden is a slow, expensive process. Lawns are monocultures that support almost no local fauna (most of the grass types are non-native). Cacti can attract birds, bees, and other species.
Yep, I am a very petty and stubborn man when I want to be, I would be adding a load more stuff to it now.
It's not to my taste, but it's not on my house, either. Who would even think to write something horrible like that? ...///... This idiot needs to move to a gated community where all the houses are identical....but would still probably b***h and whine if her neighbour wore red pants.
I noticed one of the tweets about the property value. What a twit! Hmmm, economy in the dumps thanks to the "plandemic" and rioting and so is the housing market. AND, if the value goes down, so does the property taxes. And what "pot" plant in the middle?!?! Actually, the cacti looks pretty cool. Would love to see it in bloom in the spring.
Just imagine sitting down with your typewriter and paper and your toxic self and setting out to make someone's life WORSE instead of better. Just imagine how f*****g poisonous you have to be and how sad your life has to be to CARE THIS MUCH about someone else's harmless pleasures. I hope Grandpa pays it no heed and keeps decorating. That letter is disgusting.
A couple in Los Angeles didn't feel welcome in their new neighborhood. They decided to decorate the front of their home, which was on a corner lot next to a main boulevard. They put up a fancy low white fence and at least eight copies of the statue of David. Became a huge looky-loo site. http://m.ipernity.com/#/doc/laurieannie/24057541
Sincerely, Someone who's too much of a coward to put their name at the end.
Yeah, this style of yard is definitely not for me, but the person who sent that letter is a royal a*****e. The letter was so stereotypically offensive that it almost feels staged. Unfortunately, I am sure people like this do actually exist. Whatever, just line the driveway with a bunch of pink flamingos and call it a day.
Oh, people like this exist alright. When my sister and I moved into our apartments, one of our neighbors angrily stared at us the whole time we were moving.
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Its his house,he can decorate how he chooses as long as its not hurting anyone or derogatory. Also notice these so called "perfect" neighbors are illiterate,racist,and judgemental. If you're going to write someone a letter,check your spelling and grammar before tearing someone down,it makes you look incredibly ignorant and even more ridiculous than your judgment.
frame the letter and put it on a small billboard at the front of the property close to the sidewalk. write a nice poster with it full of concern and ask the public to help find the poor soul who is obviously suffering from a "mental" health condition. Offer to gofundme for them( the letter writer) to get intensive therapy for their paranoia and delusions !
There are far too many sad s****y people in the world that are hell bent on trying to make everyone else as unhappy as they are. They're so eat up with it that they can't pull their own heads out of their asses long enough to do something with their own lives, so they meddle in everyone else's lives to attempt to seek to control the world around them since their own world is a s**t storm. Which gives them their only fleeting moments of happiness, since they can't create any true happiness in their dysfunctional lives. Leaving a trail of victims in their path.
There are a couple of places in my hood that have "issues" with the neighbors. Each of them for different reasons. As I sometimes walk my dog past their places, I look at the front of their properties. If one of the residents came out to me and confronted me with what I thought, I would tell them to their face. "Is my front yard a dump?" Me: Yes. "Am I driving down the property values of the homes around me?" Me: Probably. "Is my front lawn tacky and tasteless?" Me: I'm pretty sure it is. "Do I have a right to do this? ?" Me: Yup.
I think it looks untidy. But I wouldn't care enough to complain about it. Or even give it more than 5 seconds thought. Just a quick 1 second "Ewwww" and move on to the next thought. But that's just my personal taste. The number of thumbs down I get will indicate the number of people who think I am not allowed to have personal taste and must like the same things everyone else does ... like a good little drone. LOL
ive looked at it several times and fail to see anything wrong with this house. and i dont know where this place is, but im guessing in a dry area, so if you want green in your yard planting water saving plants seems the way forward
"low class Mexican family" or "some Gypsy family" Blow this racist, poorly-typed letter up huge and post it on a board in the yard with the heading: "WARNING: BIGOTS WALK AROUND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD"
I don't see any excessive decorating??? There's like one thing hanging on each pillar. Dude should see house on any given holiday. I call your excessive and raise you decorating obsessed.
"I did as you said and took a look at all the other houses in the neighbourhood and got them to compare it to mine and with the exception of a deaf, dumb and blind man playing pinball in Thunderbird Hills, they all asked me to landscape their gardens for them. They liked mine so much that a TV company has got involved to do a heart warming series on community involvement and mutual support. All our houses will be identical because a famous businessman got involved and is paying for everything. It will look absolutely fantastic. Except for your house. But your neighbors on either side have agreed to setup neon signs pointing to your property that blink on and off all night in case visitors mistake it for a fly-tipping site.
That letter certainly irritated me. I would just keep adding everything I could find at yard sales that is super ugly like the people who wrote(typed) the letter!!!
Reading just the first sentence had me mentally composing a reply back to the author in which I point our their lack of proper grammar, punctuation and simple English in virtually every sentence that they wrote. Honestly, I think the decorations add life to an otherwise dull color scheme (due to the dryness of the season, not the paint etc).
Did that a**hole really pull out a typwriter for this?? And the house is not even particularily bad. The should see the kind of c**p people put in front of their homes in my country...
Lol even though it says "my wife and i", I can garuntee this was written by some middle aged c**t who has nothing else to do but try to boss people around. I'd put money on it. Just another Karen
I think the person that wrote this is actually the "wife". She's at least overweight but more likely obese. I think we can all agree that she's white. She's in her early 30s. She was poor growing up. Likely lived in a trailer park with only her mother. She's probably originally from that area. Low self-esteem, codependent, no children but wants children. She doesn't work but her husband does. She likely collects social security. If she didn't actually write this and her husband did, she had major input into what to write.
It's not as over-decorated as I was expecting from reading that letter! The writer of that later is clearly a racist bigoted snob! I live in the U.K. and there was a house not far from where I used to live where the front garden you couldn't move for ornaments and novelty statues, but it still looked good to me - I'd love to see what the writer of the letter would have said about that house!
Ooops, clearly meant to say "writer of that letter, not 'later'"
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Ummmm I've seen WAY worse than this yard, I think it's charming. People are f*****g idiots to the core. And a type writer like really???? Too bad they can't find out who did it and send the letter back corrected in red and say "until you learn grammar and spelling don't even think about critiquing my decor choices." And then again in Spanish. lmao
All these fake typewriter girls, I can't believe all the posers nowadays who just use them for the "aesthetic" and can't even use it well enough to write one single letter correctly. I bet this lady probably uses a computer the rest of the time...smh what ever happened to the real typewriter fans
What you need to do is consider whether this person is in a homeowners’ association or not. If they are, they’re paying a fee and there are rules and consequences. This house doesn’t look like it’s in one at all ... rather, it looks like it’s the normal neighborhood house. You cannot do a single thing about who your neighbors are and what they do with their houses. There may be blight rules in every city but blight usually covers the quantity of cars parked in somebody’s yard and whether their vegetation is so overgrown that it’s effecting electrical poles. It is almost impossible to get somebody on blight charges for anything else. This person needs to follow the golden role of life and also remember, if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all! Besides, that kind of racism is what is the problem, systemically in our society!
Hate this damn send button. The biggest design failure of the iPhone. The Spirit Line of the perfect phone. As I was saying, it's too bad that the one guy who makes the effort to beautify his yard doesn't have the same affect as an old, rusted Ford. The hateful letter was problematic written by someone who is too damned lazy and doesn't give a s**t what his yard looks like, to actually get up and clean up his s****y front yard.
What rules is Leo referring to? I wasn't aware there's a rule book on how we can decorate our own property. I don't think it's a condo association or of the sorts.
Wtf is wrong with people?! This person is a coward, they couldn't even leave their name after writing such a nasty message. These people need to get a life and mind their own business.
These f*****g a******s have the audacity to keep existing and it's disgusting.
Of course the only response is to add more decorations and more flags.
If I were to walk by I would see things that attract myself, Texan plaque (born in TX) sombrero hat my grandmother had a ceramic planter made to look like a sombrero hat, I miss her and would think of her and I would give anything to learn how to grow a cactus like this, they are beautiful and I can't grow anything. I see nothing but hate from some miserable people who walk down this st. which is sad for them must be a sad life.
It looks like a cross between a latino home and a farmhouse. I like it! But even if you don't like it, how the heck is this mundane?
H.o.a.s are against the constitution. Good job pissing off your s**t neighbors. Thunderbird estates sounds like a trailer park.
Guaranteed it’s only the writer of this letter that has a problem. They don’t have friends, and if they do, they most likely don’t care about the decorations and think this racist Karen is the one being ridiculous.
I wonder if it is legal to put a fence on the edge of the lawn or a hedge, where I live the lawn in front of your house is closed and is not accessible to people passing by .. I would put a hedge two meters high .. I would decorate the facade of home as I like !!!
Im pretty sure id plaster the yard with pink flamingos and a sign with the letter posted on it, saying the neighborhood could thank that person for the eyesore.
To the writer of the hateful, bigoted letter: I’m sorry, but I can’t see you as middle class as your letter has so many grammatical errors in it. It sounds more low class. I don’t think you should be giving advice to anyone until you class-up yourself!
I think my absolute first move would be to get that letter blown up onto a 3'x6' sheet, lacquer it onto a piece of plywood and make it the centerpiece of a hella huge flamingo collection, or something similar. The decorations I see aren't all that garish, compared to some I've got in my own yard. People need to focus on their own c**p and stop trying to get involved in everybody else's stuff...
This neighbour's definition of "decent" is not the same as mine, I'm afraid. What is it with HOA's in the US that they think they have the power to tell people what to do? If I lived in the US, I would definitely refuse to live in an HOA neighbourhood, and if I had no choice, I'd join the damned thing and change the rules!
“Your racism is showing there, pal. And your classism. And your crazy. It’s also never a good idea to pretend one is speaking for “everybody” (although you contradict that later in the letter where it becomes obvious that you have, in fact, not spoken to anyone about this lunatic hang-up of yours and can speak only for your own crazy bigoted self). “Everybody” tend to get pretty pìssed when they become aware of the opinions they supposedly have. Instead of whatever you bleated, I have a better suggestion; how about you keep your smeary stares away from other peoples property and keep your slightly unhinged vitriol between yourself and your apparently equally lunatic wife? You could have hate nights instead of date nights, have some chips and guaca… sorry, that’s foreign, isn’t it, and we can’t have that. You’ll figure it out, I’m sure, the point is to never, ever, share your bizarre hate ramblings with anyone else. Ever. With no due respect; The Decorating Neighbour.”
The more I read, the more hateful, bigoted people I read about. The man was simply trying to make his home more beautiful to himself. Bless his heart!
Shame. Shame on you, shame on your typewriter, shame on your cow. Shame on your insensitive, unkind, inappropriate letter.
Karen? Please you need to stop before they find you and b***h slap you. Don't you mess with grandpa!
What you're saying is if you own land, you get to decide what to do with it?
The letter writer seems poorly educated or like they didn't pay ANY attention to the lessons in writing, and linguistics. Grammar was pretty poor also! No idea how to use a comma or punctuation in general! CN we talk about the spelling? As in what was not going on? Really now, they were atrocious!
Who. F*****g. Cares. The writeup is basically the same phenomena as the letter. Appropriate response would be -> bin.
The yard looks relatively barren, whoever who wrote that letter needs to learn about maintaining a good looking front lawn. I'm pretty sure their own front lawn reflects their sterile and barren hearts.
Let a letter like that show up at my house...I would be out in my yard with a megaphone calling this a*****e out! Also while putting up atleast 10 more brightly colored decorations.
I LOVE neighbors like this! These are people with personality and a sense of humor. I want MORE neighbors like this. I WANT TO BE a neighbor like this and I work on it every day. If there were more people like this there would be so much more friendliness and laughter. Anyone can hate. It serves no purpose. Fun and laughter can save the WORLD!
@Octavia, I love your optimism and kindness, but the people who wrote the letter should have some punishment for the terrible things they said.
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This letter is so full of stereotypically racist language that I find it hard to believe it could be real. I know people who say these things exist, but this sounds more like the writing of someone who's heard these things and tried to put them all in one letter to make a point. Like they tried to hard to make it seem like grandpa got a nasty letter.
Was there any opportunity to validate the letter? Is is meant to represent a specific neighbor, or is truly anonymous? I only ask, because there are some bad actors who love to manufacture outrage, and this letter could be such a hoax, where the target isn't the whimsical decorator, but the implied sender. Think about the armed response to "Pizzagate".
Sigh, you people. So much energy for someone who claims indifference.
Load More Replies... This house is in my city. First of all, Thunderbird Hills isn't a particularly upscale or expensive neighborhood at all. Second, the "decent, middle-class [white] people who wrote this disgusting letter are by far the MINORITY in this area. I'm white, but I love this city and its culture which is predominantly Hispanic and rich in history. Those people need to move to Bigotville.
Can we start up a fund so you can buy this person some more decorations for their yard?
Load More Replies... Maybe I'm spiteful, but I'd be going ALL OUT with the decorations after receiving that letter
If it were me, I'd get all the plastic flamingos I could find and put them up.
Load More Replies... I skimmed through the letter, imagining garish over-the-top decorations... Then saw the picture and thought, "You lost your s**t over THIS???!"
There's a house down the street that... I'm not a fan of. They have a Packers theme, with columns they painted gold (they added columns on their single story ranch style house), and a packers flag in one window, other flags for window covers, weird wind chimes and stuff hanging up, and constantly having stuff thrown on their yard including stuff they leave out until it's ruined then still wait for a bit before finally throwing it out. It's not cute. But, guess what, I don't live there! It doesn't pay to let it bother you that much. I would LOVE to have this guy's house over the one that I actually live by though.
Load More Replies... I don't see anything outrageous w decorations or plants. I say we rally and REALLY give grandpa some help with decorations if he wants to go BIG he can do WHATEVER he wants. What TOTAL RUBBISH. Classy people do NOT be mean or judgemental to their neighbors. Nor do they leave chicken sh** notes stating small minded opinions
I certainly don't see any pot plants on the lawn - or even a lawn.
Load More Replies... This person who wrote this letter is beyond hateful and rude and I can't believe that anyone would write a horrible letter like this to this elderly gentleman. Keep on decorating, Grandpa. The internet has your back.
"The decent middle-class people with Class" ... are we all snort laughing yet?
we so are lol at the pure stupidity and arrogance of the "decent middle-class white people with class" they're not decent white people, not even decent humans
Load More Replies... "Land of the free" means also "Free to decorate my home as I want to and I give a f*ck what you are thinking about"
The way they were describing his house I was assuming it would be loaded with Christmas ornaments in the middle of summer or maybe a bunch of rusty, old lawn ornaments...but no. I don’t see what the issue is. They’re just jerks
He lives in an arid climate and is putting out arid-climate-loving plants. Good for him. It's called "horticulture". And as Dorothy Parker famously quipped, and that letter-writer proves, you can lead a ....... to culture but you can't make 'em think. Go, Grandpa!
What does the letter writer mean by "planting 'pot plants in middle of lawn`? I expected to see weed growing in front lawn. Looks like regular plants to me.
I've always wondered about Americans and how they think it's completely OK to have an opinion and demands on other people's properties. Entitled much? What horrible people do these things!
Unfortunately, people like this, believe that because we have free speech in America and therefore they can say whatever they want.
Load More Replies... The house is clean. The yard is maintained and the hedges are trimmed. I had to look up where Thunderbird Hill is, and, yep, cacti and xeriscaping make good sense in Texas. Grandpa's doing a bang up job with his place and should be right proud of it. Whoever wrote that letter is a small-minded, mean-spirited, extremely unhappy little individual who's just trying to make himself feel better by hurting someone else.
When I first moved into my house, my husband and I painted it peach (a vibrant peach, almost orange). We had compliments, but there was one little old lady that stood in front of my house, yelling at me to paint it white. I just laughed at her. Made her crazy. Now it's bright blue. And we've gotten 2 other neighbors to paint their's vivid colors. Take that!
You call sending an anonymous letter to talk sh*t about other peoples choice of style decent? Pffft....
Not to mention the fact that you said other people are laughing at them.
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The letter proves exactly who has no class, and it ain't the grandpa Well done for having your own styling preferences and the creativity and enthusiasm to express it! Don't stop until you have a forest of cacti
From what I was reading, I expected the house to be covered in ornaments and have pot-plants sitting on the lawn, still in the pots! I was surprised when I scrolled down and saw the photos. The house isn't overly decorated and at least the pot-plants are not in their pots. The only thing about them is the plants across the lawn must make it difficult to mow - and I very much doubt the letter-writer is going to be doing the mowing.
To me it looked like patches of the lawn are dead, or at least sunbleached. And that's probably the only negative thing I saw in those pictures. It otherwise looked like a well maintained, much-loved home, with a lawn that needs some TLC. And thats really nobody's business but the homeowner.
Load More Replies... What was wrong? The decorations were far from excessive. There is house in my suburb who has gone crazy with giant stuffed toys hanging off his big Gum Tree. My concern is when water logged they could break branches and hit people walking past. This poor family doesn’t come near the soft toy man.
This is a case of “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything!” I honestly think the house looks nice and how would these people feel if their grandfather was harassed about his house?This is unnecessary and the people who wrote the letter need to mind their own business!
Does this neighborhood have a homeowners' association, and is this person a part of it? Because otherwise, there's nothing to prevent this homeowner from spray painting 'My house is MY house' on their front lawn. PS: if I got this sort of attitude in this neighborhood, I'd plant a whole lot more cacti, plus brambles and poison sumac. Make 'em work for it to leave condescending letters.
"It makes absolutely no sense to have 'plants' in the middle of your lawn". It makes absolutely no sense to have lawns. I had to read the letter to figure out what the "problem" was with that house. It's easy to say that the complainers need to just f**k off, but municipal regulations and HOAs give people way too much power to cause havoc in their neighbors' lives.
and the purpose of a lawn is to have plants and space.
Load More Replies... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Guess these A-holes have no eye or manners, where to people get the nerve to do something like this? I you don't like your surroundings any more - MOVE - a******s like you aren't wanted in a nice middle class neighborhood ! (Did any one find out who theses morons are?) Perhaps something burning like a cross should be placed in their front yard! Only a suggestion now.
The house looks great—their real problem is with the person who lives IN the house.
Load More Replies... What the actual f**k? Imagine having such a pathetically empty life that you feel the need to write such a letter.
this made me really angry because 1 its so rude 2 my dad is mexican and 3 let the dude decorate his house its not like its your house i honestly like it and whoever sent that letter WAY TO BE A KAREN
Why is it that the people with the smallest brains and the tiniest hearts do so much damned reproducing?
hugss for your grandpa. I received a (of course) anonimous letter because there are three lampions on suncells on my balcony (did the beads myself) ... someone doesnt like that... screw him/her IMG_201905...52ad3a.jpg
First of all "decent" people aren't racist. I really can't stand these types of people in society, anytime someone does something a little different they s**t themselves because it's just sooo offensive not to follow the rest of the herd...god forbid someone adds a little color to their lives and makes the world a more interesting place to live.
They should post the letter in their neighborhood Facebook page so the neighbors can see how "ridiculous" they look and laugh at them.
I wish this was my grandpa. I would help him decorate even more. Plus I would find the letter writer and they would get a dose of good old fashioned come uppance.
The writers of this letter are obvious racists and clearly have no decency and no class.
correct all the grammatical and spelling errors, frame is, add it to the outside of your house as a new decoration for them to see :) Boomer doesn't even know how to use a computer hahaha. Trying to be some retro Tom Hanks and failing miserably. (Tom Hanks collects typewriters fyi)
It looks like the homeowner is moving away from an environmentally costly lawn toward one that uses less water and takes less upkeep. Building a cactus/succulent garden is a slow, expensive process. Lawns are monocultures that support almost no local fauna (most of the grass types are non-native). Cacti can attract birds, bees, and other species.
Yep, I am a very petty and stubborn man when I want to be, I would be adding a load more stuff to it now.
It's not to my taste, but it's not on my house, either. Who would even think to write something horrible like that? ...///... This idiot needs to move to a gated community where all the houses are identical....but would still probably b***h and whine if her neighbour wore red pants.
I noticed one of the tweets about the property value. What a twit! Hmmm, economy in the dumps thanks to the "plandemic" and rioting and so is the housing market. AND, if the value goes down, so does the property taxes. And what "pot" plant in the middle?!?! Actually, the cacti looks pretty cool. Would love to see it in bloom in the spring.
Just imagine sitting down with your typewriter and paper and your toxic self and setting out to make someone's life WORSE instead of better. Just imagine how f*****g poisonous you have to be and how sad your life has to be to CARE THIS MUCH about someone else's harmless pleasures. I hope Grandpa pays it no heed and keeps decorating. That letter is disgusting.
A couple in Los Angeles didn't feel welcome in their new neighborhood. They decided to decorate the front of their home, which was on a corner lot next to a main boulevard. They put up a fancy low white fence and at least eight copies of the statue of David. Became a huge looky-loo site. http://m.ipernity.com/#/doc/laurieannie/24057541
Sincerely, Someone who's too much of a coward to put their name at the end.
Yeah, this style of yard is definitely not for me, but the person who sent that letter is a royal a*****e. The letter was so stereotypically offensive that it almost feels staged. Unfortunately, I am sure people like this do actually exist. Whatever, just line the driveway with a bunch of pink flamingos and call it a day.
Oh, people like this exist alright. When my sister and I moved into our apartments, one of our neighbors angrily stared at us the whole time we were moving.
Load More Replies... The house looks great—I suspect their real problem is the person who lives IN the house.
Its his house,he can decorate how he chooses as long as its not hurting anyone or derogatory. Also notice these so called "perfect" neighbors are illiterate,racist,and judgemental. If you're going to write someone a letter,check your spelling and grammar before tearing someone down,it makes you look incredibly ignorant and even more ridiculous than your judgment.
frame the letter and put it on a small billboard at the front of the property close to the sidewalk. write a nice poster with it full of concern and ask the public to help find the poor soul who is obviously suffering from a "mental" health condition. Offer to gofundme for them( the letter writer) to get intensive therapy for their paranoia and delusions !
There are far too many sad s****y people in the world that are hell bent on trying to make everyone else as unhappy as they are. They're so eat up with it that they can't pull their own heads out of their asses long enough to do something with their own lives, so they meddle in everyone else's lives to attempt to seek to control the world around them since their own world is a s**t storm. Which gives them their only fleeting moments of happiness, since they can't create any true happiness in their dysfunctional lives. Leaving a trail of victims in their path.
There are a couple of places in my hood that have "issues" with the neighbors. Each of them for different reasons. As I sometimes walk my dog past their places, I look at the front of their properties. If one of the residents came out to me and confronted me with what I thought, I would tell them to their face. "Is my front yard a dump?" Me: Yes. "Am I driving down the property values of the homes around me?" Me: Probably. "Is my front lawn tacky and tasteless?" Me: I'm pretty sure it is. "Do I have a right to do this? ?" Me: Yup.
I think it looks untidy. But I wouldn't care enough to complain about it. Or even give it more than 5 seconds thought. Just a quick 1 second "Ewwww" and move on to the next thought. But that's just my personal taste. The number of thumbs down I get will indicate the number of people who think I am not allowed to have personal taste and must like the same things everyone else does ... like a good little drone. LOL
ive looked at it several times and fail to see anything wrong with this house. and i dont know where this place is, but im guessing in a dry area, so if you want green in your yard planting water saving plants seems the way forward
"low class Mexican family" or "some Gypsy family" Blow this racist, poorly-typed letter up huge and post it on a board in the yard with the heading: "WARNING: BIGOTS WALK AROUND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD"
I don't see any excessive decorating??? There's like one thing hanging on each pillar. Dude should see house on any given holiday. I call your excessive and raise you decorating obsessed.
"I did as you said and took a look at all the other houses in the neighbourhood and got them to compare it to mine and with the exception of a deaf, dumb and blind man playing pinball in Thunderbird Hills, they all asked me to landscape their gardens for them. They liked mine so much that a TV company has got involved to do a heart warming series on community involvement and mutual support. All our houses will be identical because a famous businessman got involved and is paying for everything. It will look absolutely fantastic. Except for your house. But your neighbors on either side have agreed to setup neon signs pointing to your property that blink on and off all night in case visitors mistake it for a fly-tipping site.
That letter certainly irritated me. I would just keep adding everything I could find at yard sales that is super ugly like the people who wrote(typed) the letter!!!
Reading just the first sentence had me mentally composing a reply back to the author in which I point our their lack of proper grammar, punctuation and simple English in virtually every sentence that they wrote. Honestly, I think the decorations add life to an otherwise dull color scheme (due to the dryness of the season, not the paint etc).
Did that a**hole really pull out a typwriter for this?? And the house is not even particularily bad. The should see the kind of c**p people put in front of their homes in my country...
Lol even though it says "my wife and i", I can garuntee this was written by some middle aged c**t who has nothing else to do but try to boss people around. I'd put money on it. Just another Karen
I think the person that wrote this is actually the "wife". She's at least overweight but more likely obese. I think we can all agree that she's white. She's in her early 30s. She was poor growing up. Likely lived in a trailer park with only her mother. She's probably originally from that area. Low self-esteem, codependent, no children but wants children. She doesn't work but her husband does. She likely collects social security. If she didn't actually write this and her husband did, she had major input into what to write.
It's not as over-decorated as I was expecting from reading that letter! The writer of that later is clearly a racist bigoted snob! I live in the U.K. and there was a house not far from where I used to live where the front garden you couldn't move for ornaments and novelty statues, but it still looked good to me - I'd love to see what the writer of the letter would have said about that house!
Ooops, clearly meant to say "writer of that letter, not 'later'"
Load More Replies... Ummmm I've seen WAY worse than this yard, I think it's charming. People are f*****g idiots to the core. And a type writer like really???? Too bad they can't find out who did it and send the letter back corrected in red and say "until you learn grammar and spelling don't even think about critiquing my decor choices." And then again in Spanish. lmao
All these fake typewriter girls, I can't believe all the posers nowadays who just use them for the "aesthetic" and can't even use it well enough to write one single letter correctly. I bet this lady probably uses a computer the rest of the time...smh what ever happened to the real typewriter fans
What you need to do is consider whether this person is in a homeowners’ association or not. If they are, they’re paying a fee and there are rules and consequences. This house doesn’t look like it’s in one at all ... rather, it looks like it’s the normal neighborhood house. You cannot do a single thing about who your neighbors are and what they do with their houses. There may be blight rules in every city but blight usually covers the quantity of cars parked in somebody’s yard and whether their vegetation is so overgrown that it’s effecting electrical poles. It is almost impossible to get somebody on blight charges for anything else. This person needs to follow the golden role of life and also remember, if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all! Besides, that kind of racism is what is the problem, systemically in our society!
Hate this damn send button. The biggest design failure of the iPhone. The Spirit Line of the perfect phone. As I was saying, it's too bad that the one guy who makes the effort to beautify his yard doesn't have the same affect as an old, rusted Ford. The hateful letter was problematic written by someone who is too damned lazy and doesn't give a s**t what his yard looks like, to actually get up and clean up his s****y front yard.
What rules is Leo referring to? I wasn't aware there's a rule book on how we can decorate our own property. I don't think it's a condo association or of the sorts.
Wtf is wrong with people?! This person is a coward, they couldn't even leave their name after writing such a nasty message. These people need to get a life and mind their own business.
These f*****g a******s have the audacity to keep existing and it's disgusting.
Of course the only response is to add more decorations and more flags.
If I were to walk by I would see things that attract myself, Texan plaque (born in TX) sombrero hat my grandmother had a ceramic planter made to look like a sombrero hat, I miss her and would think of her and I would give anything to learn how to grow a cactus like this, they are beautiful and I can't grow anything. I see nothing but hate from some miserable people who walk down this st. which is sad for them must be a sad life.
It looks like a cross between a latino home and a farmhouse. I like it! But even if you don't like it, how the heck is this mundane?
H.o.a.s are against the constitution. Good job pissing off your s**t neighbors. Thunderbird estates sounds like a trailer park.
Guaranteed it’s only the writer of this letter that has a problem. They don’t have friends, and if they do, they most likely don’t care about the decorations and think this racist Karen is the one being ridiculous.
I wonder if it is legal to put a fence on the edge of the lawn or a hedge, where I live the lawn in front of your house is closed and is not accessible to people passing by .. I would put a hedge two meters high .. I would decorate the facade of home as I like !!!
Im pretty sure id plaster the yard with pink flamingos and a sign with the letter posted on it, saying the neighborhood could thank that person for the eyesore.
To the writer of the hateful, bigoted letter: I’m sorry, but I can’t see you as middle class as your letter has so many grammatical errors in it. It sounds more low class. I don’t think you should be giving advice to anyone until you class-up yourself!
I think my absolute first move would be to get that letter blown up onto a 3'x6' sheet, lacquer it onto a piece of plywood and make it the centerpiece of a hella huge flamingo collection, or something similar. The decorations I see aren't all that garish, compared to some I've got in my own yard. People need to focus on their own c**p and stop trying to get involved in everybody else's stuff...
This neighbour's definition of "decent" is not the same as mine, I'm afraid. What is it with HOA's in the US that they think they have the power to tell people what to do? If I lived in the US, I would definitely refuse to live in an HOA neighbourhood, and if I had no choice, I'd join the damned thing and change the rules!
“Your racism is showing there, pal. And your classism. And your crazy. It’s also never a good idea to pretend one is speaking for “everybody” (although you contradict that later in the letter where it becomes obvious that you have, in fact, not spoken to anyone about this lunatic hang-up of yours and can speak only for your own crazy bigoted self). “Everybody” tend to get pretty pìssed when they become aware of the opinions they supposedly have. Instead of whatever you bleated, I have a better suggestion; how about you keep your smeary stares away from other peoples property and keep your slightly unhinged vitriol between yourself and your apparently equally lunatic wife? You could have hate nights instead of date nights, have some chips and guaca… sorry, that’s foreign, isn’t it, and we can’t have that. You’ll figure it out, I’m sure, the point is to never, ever, share your bizarre hate ramblings with anyone else. Ever. With no due respect; The Decorating Neighbour.”
The more I read, the more hateful, bigoted people I read about. The man was simply trying to make his home more beautiful to himself. Bless his heart!
Shame. Shame on you, shame on your typewriter, shame on your cow. Shame on your insensitive, unkind, inappropriate letter.
Karen? Please you need to stop before they find you and b***h slap you. Don't you mess with grandpa!
What you're saying is if you own land, you get to decide what to do with it?
The letter writer seems poorly educated or like they didn't pay ANY attention to the lessons in writing, and linguistics. Grammar was pretty poor also! No idea how to use a comma or punctuation in general! CN we talk about the spelling? As in what was not going on? Really now, they were atrocious!
Who. F*****g. Cares. The writeup is basically the same phenomena as the letter. Appropriate response would be -> bin.
The yard looks relatively barren, whoever who wrote that letter needs to learn about maintaining a good looking front lawn. I'm pretty sure their own front lawn reflects their sterile and barren hearts.
Let a letter like that show up at my house...I would be out in my yard with a megaphone calling this a*****e out! Also while putting up atleast 10 more brightly colored decorations.
I LOVE neighbors like this! These are people with personality and a sense of humor. I want MORE neighbors like this. I WANT TO BE a neighbor like this and I work on it every day. If there were more people like this there would be so much more friendliness and laughter. Anyone can hate. It serves no purpose. Fun and laughter can save the WORLD!
@Octavia, I love your optimism and kindness, but the people who wrote the letter should have some punishment for the terrible things they said.
Load More Replies... This letter is so full of stereotypically racist language that I find it hard to believe it could be real. I know people who say these things exist, but this sounds more like the writing of someone who's heard these things and tried to put them all in one letter to make a point. Like they tried to hard to make it seem like grandpa got a nasty letter.
Was there any opportunity to validate the letter? Is is meant to represent a specific neighbor, or is truly anonymous? I only ask, because there are some bad actors who love to manufacture outrage, and this letter could be such a hoax, where the target isn't the whimsical decorator, but the implied sender. Think about the armed response to "Pizzagate".
Sigh, you people. So much energy for someone who claims indifference.
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