Everybody wants a white picket fence, right?
Your turn: If you aspire to a white picket fence, why? What is it about them that makes them worth dreaming about? If you're not a fan, why not? (I know, this is a really broad topic...I'm feeling vague today. Thanks for indulging me!)
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Here via Michele today. I like the photo.
:-)
Not a fan.
Why?
Because...
it'll never get well if you picket.
(I'll get my coat)
Not a fan. Why? Because I prefer a non fenced out yard in the country with acreage! Which is what I have.
If I get a fence it won't be white (painting a fence is UGLY stuff, folks).
My dad owns his own fence company... so if ever I want a fence it'll be a privacy fence on the property boundary line.
I'm more the wrought iron and spikes type, myself, but here's what I love about picket fences: if you ride a bike past one, and just the right speed, the motion combines with the gaps between the boards to give the illusion of invisibility, and that's pretty damned cool.
I have this picket fence. I love it but it does need painting and that is a drag. But it does symbolize 'the American Dream" whether we want to acknowledge it or not. :)
I like picket fences because they symbolize family and community. Unfortunately, most Americans are now so materialistic and competitive that a picket fence seems trite.
cool picture but not a fan.... i like my space so, don't fence me in!
i think it's what they stand for, isn't it something from the 50's? represents the ideal family that has it all. i don't have one, none of my neighbors have them, out of my whole neighborhood, i can only think of a couple of homes that have a fence in the front yard at all.
not a fence kind of gal. we have a block wall in the back and nothing in front. Just the way i like it ;)
Whenever I have wished for a picket fence, discussed pickets fences, or referred to a picket fence, it was always used figuratively, not literally. I don't care to ever had a real white picket fence, just it represents.
I like the idea of a white picket fence because of everything having one means--family, home ownership... but the reality is that you have to run a weed whacker along those suckers, and that's not much fun...
I love to see them when they are around an appropriate-looking home for them. We have a privacy fence in our backyard because of our pool. It requires upkeep but not anywhere near what a white picket fence would require. They are nostalgic and represent warm fuzzy feelings to a lot of people. So I like to look at them, but don't want one around my own home.
I agree that the White Pickett Fence (WPF) has become symbolic for ‘having it all’…a figure of speech, similar I guess to reciting a laundry list of items and at the end throwing in everything but the ‘kitchen sink’ :)
I’ve never been a WPF kinda chick. When I was younger (even more so than I am now!) it represented responsibility and being weighed down, I feared the WPF!! Now that I have my own home, and being weighed down isn’t so bad after all, I still don’t care for the WPF, but for other reasons. My perception has now shifted from viewing it as a sign of responsibility, to seeing it as being too perfect…too white/pure/clean, too ideal, too artificial and too cold.
If I put a fence up, it would be one of those fences you would see around horses or on a farm. The rugged natural wood fences that are crooked and splintered, but functional and beautiful nonetheless.
Wow! Thanks for the post, I had no idea I had such strong feelings about fences?!?!!
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