Lots of homes in my neighborhood have elaborate, eye-popping holiday displays. And yet, we haven't had much trouble. I wonder if it's a regional thing?
Edit: Not saying that I consider elaborate decorations innately tacky. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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I never cared to decorate for Christmas. I'm kind of the fuddy-duddy of the family. I agree that the huge displays seem like an awful waste of money.
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Personally, Christmas decorations are one of my favorite things about this time of year. I can see why some of the side effects would be a pain for the neighbors, but the decorations themselves are something I really like.
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I just read the article. That can't be real.
People stabbing blow-up Santas? A woman comparing fallen Joseph and Mary figurines to drive-by shooting victims? Somebody named "Mr. McDilda" worrying about people seeing him while he's changing clothes? Come on. Posts: 3354 | Registered: May 2005
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I always get a kick out of seeing neighborhood nativity scenes with all the characters knocked over; I always refer to them as a "Jonestown nativity scene".
On a semi-related note: two weeks ago, on a Saturday, I put up the Christmas lights on my house. Next Sunday morning I got a notice from my neighborhood association that they were going to pressure clean and paint the buildings, and I had to take all of them down. Posts: 3486 | Registered: Sep 2002
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That is one clueless person that planned that for December. Did you complain? Surely you weren't the only one in the holiday spirit this year.
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I'm one who likes the Christmas lights, and the tackier the better. I'm like a kid at Christmastime (really all the time) and I see wondrous beauty, not tackiness. But loud music would be bad, I agree.
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I don't really have a problem with elaborately decorated homes, although I do agree that they can be tacky sometimes. Even traffic problems I would deal with as long as the displays were up for a reasonable period of time, say from Black Friday to New Year's. Loud music would really annoy me, though. I keep the volume down when I'm playing weird stuff at 3 AM all year, and that's inside my apartment, so have the common courtesy to not play inane Christmas music loud enough that I can hear it through my (quite thin) walls. One should be able to escape the Christmas music in one's own home. I like traditional Christmas carols with a choir and orchestra, but the easy-listening crap every f-ing retail store plays from October to January drives me crazy.
My own family doesn't really decorate the outside much, but my mom gets more stuff for the inside every year. I like it that way; less work to put up and take down and you can see it more often.
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