Do you decorate graves?
By Amber
@AmbiePam (119529)
United States
May 20, 2026 3:12pm CST
Memorial Day is next week, and that is when people usually decorate graves. My immediate family (mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law) do not do that. I remember my grandmother did, and she’d make an arrangement for my grandpa, but they kept getting stolen (there was a stand on a corner that sold arrangements for graves, and she thinks they’d steal them to resell). I tell you, there is a special place in hell for people who steal off graves. It made my grandmother cry, but she kept decorating his resting place.
Do you guys decorate graves?
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@Juliaacv (55979)
• Canada
Just now
We do not decorate graves in my family.
My first grandparent passed in December one year.
There was just a mound of dirt, no grass covering it and no stone until the following spring.
That first 6 months or so, we had to visit the grave and leave flowers on a regular basis.
One time we went, and left a wreath of flowers, and my uncle called and asked if we had gone to visit her grave, and then he told my mother that she had left them on someone else's grave.
She felt awful, but made my Dad drive all of the way to that cemetery and made him (not her) grab the wreath and put it into the car and drive it down a few rows to put it out there.
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@snowy22315 (207765)
• United States
1h
Not on Memorial Day but one time when I was up in PA for some spring holiday I decorated my grandparents's graves.
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@wolfgirl569 (134690)
• Marion, Ohio
1h
I do my parents and sons after memorial day
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@RasmaSandra (97340)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2h
Usually about a couple of times in Latvia we would bring some flowers to the grave where Martin's mom and dad were, My parents are in the countryside and we could not get there too often,
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@Deepizzaguy (121405)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
1h
Since my relatives who are deceased live far away from Louisiana, my relatives and myself do not decorate their graves.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89051)
• Rupert, Idaho
2h
I don't know who would do that sort of thing... that'd be hard to deal with, I am sure.
We always have for long as I can remember, and still do with my aunt every year. It's always a big job because we decorate 10 of them now I believe








