65-year-old neighbor gifts new resident a garden gnome, then demands she puts it in her front lawn, resident refuses: ‘The gnome is guarding my tools in the shed’

It's not you… It's the gnome.

We've all been gifted absolutely horrendous gifts that we wished we could throw away the second they are handed to us. It could be a vase, a fruit bowl, or a garden gnome. Whatever it is, the moment we receive it, we have no choice but to say 'thank you' and find a place to hide it so we won't have to look at it every single day. Some people regift it, others stash it somewhere in the house just in case the person who gifted it asks about it the next time they visit.

The resident below decided to put the ugly garden gnome she was gifted by her gnome-obsessed neighbor in her garden shed, but that was not good enough for the neighbor. He demanded that the garden gnome be displayed in the front yard, claiming that it's a tradition that every new neighbor follows. But since this resident didn't know this demanding neighbor, and didn't feel like she owed him anything, she refused to go along with his demands, and insisted that the gnome is perfectly happy guarding her tools in the shed.

She did not expect her actions to inspire the other neighbors to follow her lead…

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A garden gnome on lawn.
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AITA for not putting a garden gnome on my lawn?

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Garden gnomes on lawn.
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I have a vase my mother-in-law gave me when we first moved into our home, and every time she visits, I have to put it out and pretend like it has been on display in my living room from the moment she gave it to me.
I know she always looks for it, and I know that hiding it will hurt her feelings. But if she were just a random neighbor I don't really know, I would not have gone through all the trouble, just like this 26-year-old resident shouldn't go through all the trouble to display an ugly garden gnome…
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