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The week my neighbor started leaving dead plants on my porch
About two months ago, I got home from work and found a wilted fern sitting on my doormat. I figured it blew over from someone's yard, so I tossed it in the compost bin. The next day, there was a dead rose bush with the roots still attached. By day three, I had a whole collection of dried up herbs and a single sad-looking daisy. I finally knocked on my neighbor's door, an older woman named Mrs. Gable who lives three houses down. She told me she was "cleansing the block" of bad energy by leaving the plants as offerings. Has anyone else had a neighbor do something like this with yard waste or weird gifts?
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viola1712mo ago
Oh wow, that's really unsettling... I mean, leaving dead plants on someone's porch feels like a bad luck curse or something out of a weird folk tale. I had a neighbor once who left little piles of sea salt on my doorstep, and when I asked her she said she was "sealing the threshold" against spirits. It was pretty awkward but I just thanked her and swept it away. Maybe you could politely tell Mrs. Gable you appreciate her intentions but the plants creep you out?
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rileyl672mo ago
The whole "neighbor doing weird stuff" thing is way more common than people realize. My old neighbor used to leave little bundles of sticks tied with red string on my fence posts, and I thought he was marking his territory or something, but turns out it was his way of "welcoming good energy" after his wife passed. It's like everyone's got their own little rituals now, you know? Salt lines, dead plants, weird herbs - I swear half the people in my block are practicing some low-key folk magic they picked up from an aunt or a YouTube video.
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