What is the point of garden gnomes?

I mean, they sit in your garden by the pond but what is their true meaning?

What is the point of garden gnomes?
I think they are mean to scare off naughty fairies and pixies in the old days.But now they give charaters to the garden(depending the look of course)like how "How pretty the girl is with that garden gnome!"
Reply:They talk to the flowers and the fish, keeping both happy. They also scare away the evil leprechauns trying to hurt them.
Reply:There is no point to them, thats their point!!!! He He.
Reply:They are there to bring you joy, and to protect your garden. I think they are used so they fairies have dancing partners.
Reply:Garden gnomes are lovely and add character to a garden. I have four small ones- John, Paul, George and Ringo.
Reply:They look sort of quaint
Reply:Everyone needs garden gnomes. They protect us from aliens and keep nosey neighbours calling for cups of tea.LONG MAY GNOMES RULE.
Reply:so we fall over them when we come home drunk
Reply:they're just there to scare little kids or to laugh at you.
Reply:Well, they're funny. And cute. So nothing really.
Reply:What??? Who do you think comes in every night and does my house work? Or is that the brownies?
Reply:People buy them for decoration. Elves and gnomes are workers in the woods, and all ways make sure that there area is nice and neat.
Reply:thank you for the laugh katie g.
Reply:To scare off little children, mailmen, dogs, ex-husbands and/or wives, pesky neighbors, trick or treaters, relatives-in-law, your children, and racoons. Unfortunatley it will attract Garden Gnome Hit Squads.



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Reply:They keep lonely people happy, they can chat away to them without getting any cheek back.
Reply:Hey! don't knock the Gnomes!!

The Roaming Gnome on TV does everybody a great service, by telling travelers where the best hotels and other places are, for spending a night while on a trip!

Although, he seems a bit clumsy--always getting rolled by a bellmans cart, or run down by a taxi-cab!
Reply:They are called garden ornaments, and that is what they are. Why do people wear jewelery?
Reply:humour just for fun to lighten your space who know like the fairy ring boys come from cabbages its just a bit of fun no rhyme or reason everyone should have a bit of tat in their garden lighten up
Reply:You have to give an `ome for an gnome, don`t you?
Reply:They are a symbol of presence that play on the imagination of the onlooker.
Reply:Too scare away cats that like to use your garden as a toilet. Or anything else for that matter.
Reply:They're just decoration, silly. Usually people who buy garden gnomes like them.
Reply:Absolutely no point whatsoever, they are tasteless, tacky rubbish.
Reply:Purely decorative, I believe
Reply:none.
Reply:They are beautiful creatures that come alive at night and savethe people in the house from certain death! Or just burgulars, lost cats. Oh and they feed your fish!
Reply:To show the world how bad your taste is. Give me a break - I hate these little dolls.
Reply:do they have meaning ??
Reply:I'm pretty sure they're designed to scare away pesky garden elves.

;)
Reply:I strongly agree with Haley m
Reply:They frighten away the herons so that they don't steal your Koi Carp !