What's with all the door wreathes??!!

SpitfireIV

So this past while driving around in the evenings for the sake of driving around and sightseeing I'm noticing two things....

Firstly there's a serious amount of nice new houses in the countryside, like some serious builds. There's a lot of people making good money, wondering where I went wrong?!

Second and far more importantly; what's with all the wreathes on people's front doors??!! I can appreciate and understand Christmas wreathes but when did general spring/summer/I don't know what wreathes become a thing?!

Leg End Reject

I've noticed this too.

Nothing worse than dusty and dirty artificial flowers on the front door. A few weeks at Christmas is enough for me.

Truckermal

I thought it was for Easter but obviously not!

mr.anonymous

I've noticed wreaths too. At first I assumed there was a body inside waiting to be found

Gregor Samsa

They appeared in my estate a few days before Easter. Most took them down the Tuesday after Easter, but I think one still has theirs up.

corner of hells

I wonder is it just "notions" or delusions of grandeur.

GBX

OP you've reminded me to remind the Mrs to take the one she put up for Easter down. Its the new Rudolph ears and antlers on cars after christmas.

gourcuff

the middle classes are building huge houses in the countryside, 220 sq.m often, loads of money to spend. Garden centres are getting thronged at the weekends, the wreaths prob part of the current covid trend of massive attention being put on peoples homes and adding loads of bits to them..

Furze99

corner of hells wrote: »

I wonder is it just "notions" or delusions of grandeur.

Keeping up with the trends/ neighbours/ Instagram..

phormium

There is a wreath for everything now! Easter ones have morphed into MayDay ones, probably 4th of July next! I think they look silly too at this stage, once a year is enough.

Re the fine houses in the countryside it's many years since I wished that people had to stick a sign outside showing their occupation so I could figure how the hell they were financing them!

banie01

They are a signal to let certain folk know that the lady of the house is a belle de hour

Also, door ribbons!

mohawk

gourcuff wrote: »

the middle classes are building huge houses in the countryside, 220 sq.m often, loads of money to spend. Garden centres are getting thronged at the weekends, the wreaths prob part of the current covid trend of massive attention being put on peoples homes and adding loads of bits to them..

It’s getting very hard to get planning permission now. (Maybe some counties it’s easier). You have to be from the area and quite often people are getting sites from family. If you are getting the land for free it make it much easier to build a big house.

Not only are Easter wreaths a thing I have also seen Halloween ones in recent years.

whisky_galore

Just tasteless people who like buying cheap plastic wankery they saw in the bargain bin at The Range and similar outlets.

whisky_galore

phormium wrote: »

Re the fine houses in the countryside it's many years since I wished that people had to stick a sign outside showing their occupation so I could figure how the hell they were financing them!

It's funny when they put up this huge set of dick waving piers and gates with a security keypad that you can simply walk around.

Larbre34

They are spring wreaths. Another Americanism that has arrived here.

In fairness I think they have caught on this year as a symbol of optimism, but definitely by the same people that left their external Christmas lights on until March.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Mam of 4

My thinking on it is , so what ?
If the people who have them up like them , that's all that matters .
A little something that brings a smile to your face these days is a good thing:)

Badly Drunk Boy

phormium wrote: »

There is a wreath for everything now! Easter ones have morphed into MayDay ones, probably 4th of July next! I think they look silly too at this stage, once a year is enough.

You forgot about Corpus Christi and the Summer Solstice/Midsummer in June!

FileNotFound

A house near us still has the xmas lights up haha, never mind the easter wresth.

People just going a bit mad I'd say

Jim Root

my wife got one of these after seeing some dope on Instagram with them

Gregor Samsa

Mam of 4 wrote: »

My thinking on it is , so what ?
If the people who have them up like them , that's all that matters .
A little something that brings a smile to your face these days is a good thing:)

Sure this is Boards. There'd be nothing going on here if people weren't complaining about anything that other people do that they don't do themselves.

freshpopcorn

In my area a woman made them.
I’m fairly sure she has mental health issues and she went from door to door selling them.
She’s a nice woman and people felt they couldn’t really turn her away.

It's the new pampas grass.

Brendan Bendar

It’s the few idiots being taken in by shïte like ‘ Black Friday’ ‘Halloween’ Arthur’s Day’ …. and other bulldust

Another swizz to to try to suck your dosh from the purse.

Usually auld Dubs who are taken in by anything I find.

Gregor Samsa

They're signs that swinging goes on in that house. If you see a wreath, just go up and knock 3 times on the door, preferably with a smile on your face and a bulge in your pants. You'll be shown to the bedroom. It's common practice to take your shoes off in the hall, so maybe have them off and in your hands when you knock, to save time.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252020#Comment_118252020

It’s a possibilityG, around here the auld bewers who faithfully put them up, you’d need to bring a wire brush with you.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118251981#Comment_118251981

‘Arthur’s Day’ was good fun, and genius marketing, until it got a bit OTT and out of hand.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252062#Comment_118252062

Load of bollox Emmett, a failed attempt to create an artificial ‘event’.

Never took off, the public saw through it and weren’t taken in.

Glad you enjoyed it though….. no problem with that.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252095#Comment_118252095

Everything is made up, every ceremony, every event, every commemoration anything you can think of is a product of human imagination. I can't remember the theory but some branch of Marxist thought.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252095#Comment_118252095

Ah, it took off for a few years before all the “big gigs” and young lads dancing naked on broken glass, and playing each other’s mickeys, in Templebar.

The first one was great, the sheer amount of half finished pints littered about the pub was impressive.

I’d be a Guinness drinker, myself, so I was more than happy to indulge in a “celebration” of the drink. Maybe you’d have a different opinion if it was Karpacie, Prazsky or one of those discount store lagers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_tradition

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252287#Comment_118252287

Surely every tradition was invented at one point. And surely even these acts that aren't actually traditional now will become legitimate traditions if they keep going long enough?

Also, this thread started about the new phenomenon of wreaths appearing on doors in April and May. However it's been revived now in December - but surely Christmas door wreaths are indeed an established tradition?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252522#Comment_118252522

In 500 years time, a copy of your Northside flag will be reverently on display in the national museum and the first had stitched example of the flag will sell for over a million, huge romantic mythology will have built up around Northside patriotism, there will be arguments between the revisionist historians and the traditionalists over the meaning of it.😎

EmmetSpiceland

I think the autumnal ones are a nice touch. Don’t think I’ve seen any spring or summer ones. But don’t think I’d have any problem with them either.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252640#Comment_118252640

Who am I to tell you not to waste your money……. don’t be led by the nose on these things.

Your decision.

whisky_galore

Wine o clock mom just back from shopping at The Range.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252687#Comment_118252687

Your concern is appreciated, B.

There’s no wreath on the door here, as yet. But, lets be honest, if the lady of house wants a spring, summer, autumn or “winter” wreath it’s not like I’ll have much of a say in the matter. Or care.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252924#Comment_118252924

Good lad…. That’s the attitude.

I have the same attitude, if the churn next door wants to festoon the outside gaff

with garish Xmas rubbish, gan right ahead.

The Brenner won’t be ‘competing’ that’s for sure….well maybe a quick snip of the hedge clippers under cover of darkness.!,

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118252839#Comment_118252839

It is more that you see something online and you start to think you have some artistic ability and how hard can it be anyway.

Galway_guy_33

Glad to see good old Irish begrudgery is alive and kicking here on this thread...... think some on here fail to see site values are much less down the country meaning most rural once off self builds are left with much more money to spend on the actual house and not wasting it on over inflated urban sites.

Quite obvious since covid where most people want to live now!!!

Fergall

Another swizz to to try to suck your dosh from the purse.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118253059#Comment_118253059

I didn't see many self-made Halloween or Xmas decorations tbf.

More China's finest plastic tat because neighbours also got tat up. Can't feel left out.