Christmas lights........

[Mo2vation]

HAH!

Hey - if you got kids, rock on. Turn your house and lawn into holiday playland.

We're child-free, so having a house you can land a plane by or a lawn that looks like a pop-up book would be just a little wacky.

---
Ken

 

[dlndavid]

I don't care what kind of bulbs you have, as long as you take them off your house by February. People with Christmas lights up in July should be ticketed, unless you live in a trailer house, in which case it's permissible to leave them up all year (extra points if they never work, even during the Christmas season).

I'll second that....man law?

 

[Bean_Counter67]

There is something rather peaceful about certain Christmas light displays. After 7 hours on Sunday, I was at peace and exhausted at putting up mine.

Icicle lights across the front of the house. (cross the fingers the real icicles don't come to replace them.)
Front door entry framed with a pine branch garland with lights
Nettting lights on select shrubs along the front of the house. A pair of boxwood shrubs flanking the front door make for a nice entry way.
Spot light to illuminate the Christmas wreath on the front door.

Oh yes, one inflatable of Santa & Rudolf. Just needed to be a kid again!

Everything is wired into one timer. Come mid January the plug is pulled, as soon as the first thaw hits every thing is taken down for the season.

 

[TCDiver1]

I like to go simple. Two or three trees with clear tree wraps up about 20 feet. It's very island ..... until a snowblower blast covers them up.

 

[riguerin]

We just watched An Inconvenient Truth last night. Sorry, no Christmas lights till we get this global warming thing under control.

Bah ! Humbug ! :mooner:

 

[dlndavid]

thread killer

 

[ScubaTexan]

Of course, that's how I roll these days. 12 years ago, I was one light away from shutting down the power grid.

My friends held an intervention.

I'm a better man now.

Thank you, Clark Griswold...

 

[Cacia]

I love all the lights! I used to think it was tacky because my mother and grandmother would make clicking sounds with their tongues and say that those houses "looked like beer joints". But then I had children and they always loved driving by the really gaudy houses the best.

Ken, how do you feel about illuminated baby Jesus in the horses feed trough?

At my old barn, we decorated all the horse's stalls and made them wear hats we attached to their fly masks.

 

[alcina]

I love them all - tacky, tasteful and truly tricked out! I can't wait to be back in the US for Xmas - the decorations, mindless consumption and forced frivolity are all part of the experience.

Australians don't really get it - although they are really really trying. There's just something about all those lights and ornaments in 100+ degree heat that isn't right

 

[RV]

in honor of rig I'll have to put up tripple lights this year... like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCj2y0jCbs
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4g0gmQSLk
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DW3XVpXwOM
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WESg9l2K28