Christmas Lights

[britman]

Am I the only one left on the planet who does not drape the entire outside of my abode with laser shows, huge inflatable animals in all sorts or Christmas apparel, and led light set ups that would make a bat have 20-20 vision.  I sincerely believe the entire Grizwall clan has moved to my street.  I am not Ebenezer Scrooge but some have gotten to the point of being ridiculous. One display has an inflatable Santa in a outhouse and the door opens and closes............. ....



Ok maybe I am the old guy who yells, "Hey kid get the hell off my lawn".

[Laker]

No, we don't do it either. We'd rather not spend the time nor the money on such things. We will have a nice little tree in the house but that's it.  Not having children makes the holidays much easier.  Halloween? Not at our house...

[lti_57]

Pretty sure the majority of people here are of the same mind.
Frugal, waist of time,don't want to pay electric company any more then i have to. Mind set
 We ride guzzi's we are a strange bunch.
I have one string of led lights that run down the length of my chain link fence
and a tree.

[swmckinley54]

I am of the same mind.........howeve r when my granddaughter came out of our house one evening and saw the neighbors recent addition of Christmas  lights and said how pretty......well my wife turned to me and said that we WILL have Christmas lights on the exterior of our once again. I said fine, but I will do it in the style  my mother had, no LED's, I went on Amazon and bought the retro C9 bulb strings in a dark blue. Marriage is nothing more than a constant set of negotiations.

[cloudbase]

Just a wreath on the front door.

[Rusnak_322]

we got lots of decorations in the house, including a big real tree. Outside we have wreaths on 6 windows and lights on our landscape.

But we have small kids (age 6 and 9) and they love it. We just had a tree before the kids came along.

[Dean Rose]

So far no decorations, I'm hoping it stays like this. We live at the end of a private road and the only neighbors are here maybe 2 weeks in the summer. Who is going to see the decorations the wildlife?

Just call me Scrouge

Dean

[markw]

Its not just Christmas lights but the whole effort of it that most blokes would not do-Example, my far better other half was getting extremely tense over what to offer for Christmas pudding so I asked her what she had in mind and she must have reeled of five or six different options they could have ! , against my better judgment  said if it was up to me I would just offer two different choices and if they were too fussy they could bring their own!,that was met with "If it was up to you we wouldn't do anything " Didn't have the guts to say damn right there...I don't think its a case of men being lazy, although compared to my Wife I am , but why make things so stressful?   
As far a Christmas lights go perhaps I am Scrooge like as I said we should put ours in the back garden where WE get the benefit of seeing them rather than at the front for other people that don't pay for either them or the electricity-poor Wife puts up with a lot...

[steven c]

My neighbor starts setting up in October, front and back yard, inside the house,runs it with his computer, it is now a town attraction, you can see his display from space, I love it. We string some lights on the gutters, candles in the windows but Andys lights kind of overpower mine.


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[Caffeineo]

No lights, no tree, no kids. 
I am against any day that has a theme of today you will treat "X" special. So does that mean the rest of the year you can treat them like shite? I do my best to treat the wife and others good every day and see no reason to do anything more on one day to "make up" for any mistreatment the other 364 days. 

[Rusnak_322]

My neighbor starts setting up in October, front and back yard, inside the house,runs it with his computer, it is now a town attraction, you can see his display from space, I love it. We string some lights on the gutters, candles in the windows but Andys lights kind of overpower mine.


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from my deck I can see a guyscrazy  Christmas light display. He has been doing it for years and was filmed this October for a TV show where he could win $50k on ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Scoop-THE-GREAT-CHRISTMAS-LIGHT-FIGHT-on-ABC-Monday-December-19-2016-20161205# 


I love it, the kids in the neighborhood love it. his next door neighbor would normally have the most lights, but this guy is crazy. Draws lots of people from around the area.

[shaka]

We smear rich figgy pudding on the bathroom doorknobs. Our guests always comment.

[Kev m]

Wife has slowly purchased new sets of warm colored LED stuff for the front yard.

I decided to run the old white hot LEDs out to the dock. They look good out on the water.

I am against any day that has a theme of today you will treat "X" special. So does that mean the rest of the year you can treat them like shite? I do my best to treat the wife and others good every day and see no reason to do anything more on one day to "make up" for any mistreatment the other 364 days. 

As a recovering Roman Catholic I'm very suspicious about the intent or at least the actual practice of many organized religions.

That said, even as jaded and skeptical as I am, I am also reminded that the concept of the holiday season is to teach love and kindness and REMIND US to act that way all year. (Not claiming it works, but we're all fickle and imperfect beings).

[bad Chad]

The inflatable santas ridding in NASCARs and such just scream over the top tacky.  One neighbor has his inflatable bs right next to his 80s style glowing plastic manger scen amongst other tasteless yard garbage. With style like that it makes me wonder if he does design work for KTM?

 

[LowRyter]

The Mrs always likes to put up XMas lights and decorations.  Since my sons were little, I've always gotten a live tree, sometimes we would cut them down.  Now my oldest is 30 and I look forward to them going with me to bargain hunt a tree.  The prices seem to fluctuate from year to year.

The issue is that we came back from vacation last weekend and the weather has turned cold and yucky.  I would imagine that the weather will curtail some of our decorations.

[webmost]

[oldbike54]

 Uh , fellas , we go through this every year , the love Christmas/hate Christmas debate . Lights/no lights , kind of a personal . Please , let's not go down this road again , it is divisive and counterproductive .

                                         Happy Holidays and best wishes to all

 Maybe we should leave it at that .

 Thanks

 Dusty

[LaMojo]

Our neighborhood has mostly old folks with hardly any small kids left.  We still decorate inside our home and out for our grand kids, they love it.  (I still do too)   The Christmas village is a hit with the youngsters.

[janusz]

Good reason to buy another bike.

[JeffOlson]

We always put up several strings of colored lights along the gutters. Sometimes we also put up lights and other decorations in the yard. We light these every night from before Thanksgiving until well into January or even February. I hate darkness. I need light when I come home.

We also have several strings of white lights strung up between trees in the backyard. We leave these on all year.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  I think I best like the display that Webmost posted a picture of.

[Guzzistajohn]

We have a big pine 🌲 in the yard I decorate it looks nice when it's done. Happy holidays everyone! Try to cheer up and be kind to your neighbor year around. Just treat others how you like to be treated. It's really not that difficult and makes the world a better place

[charlie b]

I've done it a few times over the years.  The problem is I like decorating and then looking at them...but...I really, really, really hate taking them down.  Especially when there is a foot of snow on the ground.  :(

Instead of going around to look at house lights we visit the local botanical garden which puts up a really nice display every year.

[Lannis]

The Mrs always likes to put up XMas lights and decorations.  Since my sons were little, I've always gotten a live tree, sometimes we would cut them down.  Now my oldest is 30 and I look forward to them going with me to bargain hunt a tree.  The prices seem to fluctuate from year to year.

The issue is that we came back from vacation last weekend and the weather has turned cold and yucky.  I would imagine that the weather will curtail some of our decorations.

When the boys were here, we used to get an 11 foot tree and put it up in the living room, and decorate every room in the house.    No inflatable Santas or snowmen, just some tasteful lights and ornaments.

Now that they're gone, we generally have our Christmas get-togethers somewhere else, and some years nobody actually comes here, so last year, for the first time in 40 years, we didn't put up a tree.   We survived OK, sort of liked the lack of hassle really, so we're leaning backwards on putting one up this year too.   We do drape a couple of back-lit 60-foot garlands across the porches of the house, and put candles in the windows.   Nobody can see it but us and the woods critters, and the occasional visitors, but it's traditional!

Lannis

[sib]

Hey, where are the mods?  This seems like a religion thread to me.

[oldbike54]

 Happy Hibernal Solstice . There Sib .

 Dusty

[sib]

Happy Hibernal Solstice . There Sib .

 Dusty

Thanks, now I'm looking forward to the Virginal Equinox.

[atavar]

Hey, where are the mods?  This seems like a religion thread to me.

Nothing religious about lights or santa or presents and crap. 

[Tom]

That's secular. 

[twowings]

Pagans Rule!!!!!