Just ask for the receipt and say you'd rather take it back and get a plant instead. Harsh but they're just wasting their money otherwise!
Careful on the plant thing though - they might start buying plants that catch their eye at the GC, which may be as hideous as the ornaments. Muticoloured 'spray painted' heathers and ghastly clashing heucheras in orange and lime green, for example ;P
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Sanjy: I wish you luck. My garden (which they all know is very much work in progress and that I am VERY picky about what I want as befitting my control freak tendencies) is being filled with plants I despise (not just dislike: these plants are not going to do well in my garden!) and ornaments that are ... carefully placed.
I know full well that I'm the only one with hearing issues: its the bit between the brain and the ears that seems to be at fault with my families choices for me!
I have OH and Possum just about trained now after years of horrors. They know, however boring it may be for them, that I like garden stuff (and sometimes kitchen stuff) for birthday, Xmas and Mum's Day and now we go together to the garden centre/plant fair/ Xmas market or flea market and I choose for the garden while they pay.
I used to be subtle about what I wanted but a mobile phone for Xmas one year was the last straw so a very effective eruption followed and everyone now gets what they've asked for and not what the others think they should have.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I'm not a big fan of garden ornaments. I have a hideous cat ornament given to me. I love cats but this thing is just ugly. I started off by leaving it out the front. Not even in the garden, on the path. With the hope that someone would steal it. This didn't happen. So over the course of a few weeks I gradually edged it further towards my neighbours doorstep. Until he helpfully brought it back cheerly telling me my "ugly cat's escaped". It's now hidden under a shrub. I empty old pots on top of him hes nearly buried.
Another friend gave me a metal bike with a planter on the back. I can't stand it, but it does get admired by other people. I leave it there because it was a replacement for some cheap jewellery she gave me that I confessed I was allergic to.
Just a little update, the large owl looked lonely and a bit of bargaining at another local garden centre turned it into a trio... (The new ones are far smaller and one of them has a splendid sideways look!)
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that's about right pansyface
Just ask for the receipt and say you'd rather take it back and get a plant instead. Harsh but they're just wasting their money otherwise!
Careful on the plant thing though - they might start buying plants that catch their eye at the GC, which may be as hideous as the ornaments. Muticoloured 'spray painted' heathers and ghastly clashing heucheras in orange and lime green, for example ;P
Sanjy: I wish you luck. My garden (which they all know is very much work in progress and that I am VERY picky about what I want as befitting my control freak tendencies) is being filled with plants I despise (not just dislike: these plants are not going to do well in my garden!) and ornaments that are ... carefully placed.
I know full well that I'm the only one with hearing issues: its the bit between the brain and the ears that seems to be at fault with my families choices for me!
I have OH and Possum just about trained now after years of horrors. They know, however boring it may be for them, that I like garden stuff (and sometimes kitchen stuff) for birthday, Xmas and Mum's Day and now we go together to the garden centre/plant fair/ Xmas market or flea market and I choose for the garden while they pay.
I used to be subtle about what I wanted but a mobile phone for Xmas one year was the last straw so a very effective eruption followed and everyone now gets what they've asked for and not what the others think they should have.
my soon & daughters buy me garden centre vouchers which is great it's the outlaws who buy the horrors
I'm not a big fan of garden ornaments. I have a hideous cat ornament given to me. I love cats but this thing is just ugly. I started off by leaving it out the front. Not even in the garden, on the path. With the hope that someone would steal it. This didn't happen. So over the course of a few weeks I gradually edged it further towards my neighbours doorstep. Until he helpfully brought it back cheerly telling me my "ugly cat's escaped". It's now hidden under a shrub. I empty old pots on top of him hes nearly buried.
Another friend gave me a metal bike with a planter on the back. I can't stand it, but it does get admired by other people. I leave it there because it was a replacement for some cheap jewellery she gave me that I confessed I was allergic to.
Just a little update, the large owl looked lonely and a bit of bargaining at another local garden centre turned it into a trio... (The new ones are far smaller and one of them has a splendid sideways look!)