"Artsy and craftsy" woman annoys neighbors with yard toilets

Tina Asmus says she's being pressured to remove the front yard "art piece planters" she created using a couple of old toilets and a pedestal sink. "I'm very creative, artsy and crafty in this regard and I like to find old things that I can recycle and repurpose," she says. (Suburban Chicago Daily Herald)

Comments

[RockyMtnMac]

Actually, they are kinda cool.
And it is recycling.
I would go ahead and remove them, and then replace them with a hundred plastic flamingos all over the yard.
What is it with nosy neighbors not staying in their own yard lately?

[Phranqlin]

It's not like she's gardening in pasties and a thong.

[sometimesilie]

Assssssssssssssssssssssmus, LMASSSSSSSSSSSSSO!

[thomas]

It's nationwide depression RMC.
Any witch will do, especially the easier targets.

[MidtownCoog]

This stoned freak got confused with the 1/2 planted bathtub religious scenes.

[Drake Timbershaft]

I'm not sure that drawing "Have a nice day" on a toilet with a sharpie and then planting something in the bowl really qualifies as art. Still, I can't see that she's hurting anyone. Your yard is just that, yours. Short of creating a public health hazard, you should be able to do with it as you please.

[thomas]

It's nationwide depression RockyMtnMac.
Any witch will do, especially the easier targets.

[you know me by now]

I love the God Bless My Neighbors one.

[stopeatingmysesamecake]

I'm not sure that drawing "Have a nice day" on a toilet with a sharpie and then planting something in the bowl really qualifies as art. Still, I can't see that she's hurting anyone. Your yard is just that, yours. Short of creating a public health hazard, you should be able to do with it as you please.
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In agreement. But in a nearby city, I sometimes pass a house where the 'artist' owner has painted the house, and if I remember correctly, all fences and other yard items, about 17 different day-glo colors. And again, I can't remember specifics, has filled the yard with alot of 'WTF' type of stuff. And other stuff.

His yard, yes. Do as he pleases, he did. Possibly lowering the saleability/property value of the neighborhood, for sure. You wouldn't like that if you were a neighbor.

[Sigh]

I actually wouldn't care if my neighbor painted their house in day-glo colors. I have neighbors like that. I would be more concerned if they let their house fall apart, unpainted.

[Elroy]

To her it's art. Art is freedom of expression. There's a house around mine where the people have bowling balls on sticks about waste high in their garden. They have probably 10 of them and they've been there for atleast 15+ years. It's one of those..."I gotta look for that house with the bowling balls." Well, she's that house.

Atleast she doesn't have brown rocks in it. If she was really creative, she would have gotten a beday (?Spelling) and used it as a fountain.

[pnwgal]

What the hell do I care if my neighbors decorate their yard with old plumbing fixtures? As long as they're not dumping their old toilet in MY yard, go for it.

WAY too many people have a serious case of "stickyournosewhereitsnotwanteditis".

[305club]

People that do crap like that should have a ball gag and a butt plug. I bet she has a cow motif going on in the kitchen, doiles in the parlor and a chroched poodle on the back of the john with a roll of toilet paper in it. Craft does not mean art.

[Sisterblonde]

Eh. I've seen some planters that looked like you COULD take a dump in it... at least we know what this planter IS!

[jojo]

Obviously these people have never been to the south. Every other yard down here has stuff like this...it's actually growing on me, some of them are cute. Being brought up in Illinois, I can't get past the mental block about toilets with flowers in the yard but I don't mind if other folks do...is this really an issue??

[Navy Chief]

I'd much rather have her reuse (not recycle, technically speaking) old toilets like this than have them thrown into a landfill.

[thomas]

I keep seeing Andy Griffith and saluting lids.

[d'ep]

lol@thomas! I LOVE that movie!

"PLO. Permanent Latrine Orderly." :D

[lynn]

LOL@ thomas!! thanks for that cool memory...LOL

as for as her toilet art--would i do this? no. but i might try for RMM's 100's of pink flamingos in my yard.
but as long as the toilets are not singing in the middle of the night, i would not complain of a neighbor having potty planters.

and jojo is correct. the southern decorators are wonderfully crazy. i love the wooden little ladies bending over the gardens showing their pantaloons.
jojo, have you ever been on a crazy lights trip at christmas time? go out looking for the tackiest light displays?? always fun.

[Sheila]

I draw the line at smiley faces.

[Soo]

You know what's more annoying than a yard full of "art" and nonsense? A yard that isn't taken care of at all.

There are two houses on my street with lawns that are miserable to look at. One is a 6-month rental, and the occupants usually park on the front lawn because there are more than two adults living there. The other is an "established" family who can't be bothered to rake the leaves and pine needles and so nothing but weeds grow.

I hate driving by those houses. The unkempt lawns look so sad and depressing. If I couldn't be bothered to take care of my lawn, I'd just tear it out and put in rocks. At least that looks better than weeds and anthills.

I'd live next to this artsy-but-nutsy lady any day. At least she tries.

[LimeGreenLizard]

Soo, my friend, tell us what you really think.

Seriously, I was never a lawn god, but wished I had the money some of the retirees did to make their lawns immaculate. Then again, a lawn is a leftover idea from England. I vehemently believe lawns should only exists where they can survive on their own. And in Georgia, that ain't happening much lately. I'll take Soo's rocks any day.

[Rat]

Oh yeah... "No Time For Sergeants" was the name of that movie... that was pretty funny with the saluting toilet seats.
I think it looks cool, but then again... I collect toilets.

[openeyed]

Hey, good idea! They come with their own fertilizer! Leave her alone!!

[ReginaFilangee]

I don't understand what the big deal is. At least she's not sitting on them and doing her business while reading a newspaper out there.

[She-Wolf]

First rule of self-reference: if you call yourself creative, you probably aren't.

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