Do you have any neighbors that put up a ridiculous holiday display outside?

The most people will do here is put up some decorations inside the windows.
And it is a good thing, too. We have no need to import these horrific colonial habits.

We have several in our neighborhood on the tacky lights tour. I can’t help but laugh when I dive by, which I guess is kind of the point. It’s definitely one of the better parts of the season for me.

Yup. The folks across the street from me have about 40–50 lighted holiday inflatables in their front yard. So many, it blocks their front door.

It is funny to see all the junk they put up and to think they have to take it all down in the cold makes me giggle. So tacky it’s fun to watch.

My neighbors evidently think their carbon footprint is more important than a joyous outpouring of cheap lights & plastic reindeer.

But four blocks away is some dude who leaves 4th of July, Halloween, and Christmas decorations up all year. It inspires me to be more trashy.

Oh @JLoon Please don’t let those hillbillies corrupt you! Just burn his house down. :D

^^ Nooo….then she’ll go to prison for arson! :(

@RayaHope – I’m the corruptor, not the corruptee ;)

@smudges – I’m thinking spontaneous combustion by Easter.

There’s one house within a half mile of my house who has lit up the sky for the last 50 years or so. Originally, the husband became Santa every year to talk with any kids in passing cars & giving out candy. He did that up until Covid hit. People drive from miles around to see the show. They were doing this even before it became popular. The popularity grew every year to the point that neighbors or either side became part of the show lighting up their own homes. The husband passed away last year & I assumed that would be the end of the show…WRONG!!! The neighbors put up the decorations for he widow this year, so the legend continues.

Now, there are 2 houses on my street who put up those awful blow up Christmas decorations. Their yards are covered with 6–8 foot blow up snowmen, Santas, reindeer, sleds, etc. I would just as soon that they be covered with lights than those tacky blow up dolls that go flat on the first really cold night. I do my best to ignore the tacky ones & focus on the pretty ones!!!

Any christmas display is a waste of electricity. The bigger the lights, the larger the energy waste.

Thank goodness for Hannukah. We use candles.

No. I live in a townhome community, so there’s not really enough space to go crazy, but there are a couple houses that fill every inch of their postage stamp sized yard. I’m the other extreme. I do literally nothing.

Not in my immediate area. There are some houses in other areas close by that do it, and there’s a town about 20 minutes away that has routes on a map where people who have done big decorations and lights post their addresses on the route map, and people can download the map and take the tours with their cars. It’s grown to three routes. The houses really are beautiful, some have music. I think they shut it down around 9 or 10 so they’re not lighting the night sky for the neighborhood all night long.

I guess we qualify for having a ridiculous display in our front yard, and hubby’s ridiculously proud of it too! It’s actually weirdly cool.

^^ So THAT is you guys! lol! (kidding) It’s really a love/hate thing with me. As long as it’s not up for too long after the holidays.

My neighbour has large coloured lightbulbs strung out along the eaves of his house and around the windows. Every year a small herd of reindeer appears on his lawn their outlines and antlers delineated by a mass of multi coloured lights. When switched on in the evening I have to look away because of the glare and the snow begins to melt.

^^ lol! WOW they should invest in LED lights, all the shine and very little heat. :)

Bring ‘em on! I love seeing those bright displays on these cold, dark nights.

Where I live there are lots of houses and lawns covered in lights or huge blow up Santas, minions, and all sorts of themes.

A former jelly who doesn’t live near me put up a 40 foot Santa on her property, and my comment was the space station can probably see it. It’s awesome.