I've always lived in a place where I could have decorations outside, until I moved into the place where I live now. It was my Mother's apt. and is one of those buildings with carpeted hallways that look more like a Hotel.. LOL!!
The apt. is small and I really don't have room for a tree inside, so I started putting this little tree on a TV tray out in the hallway...
Until one year someone did this!!!
They hadn't just knocked it over, it had been shaken until every ornament had fallen off of it... and the sad thing is, our building is for Seniors and Disabled people only.... so there are no children around to vandalize things.
I made a sign with a picture of the Grinch and a Christmas tree that said "You can Smash the Tree, but you can't Crush the Spirit!! Merry Grinchmas!!!" and hung it up where the tree had been. It only stayed up about a 1/2 hour before somebody took it down... Ha!!
Since then, we are no longer allowed to have anything in the hallways at all, but I still put up my decorations inside... except for the little tree