Its that time of year...time to pull out the extension cords, get out those boxes in the attic and start the holiday decorating.
Im amazed how many people are pulling out all the stops for Halloween this year. Ten years ago, Christmas was the only holiday to get any decorating play...but now, it seems like every major holiday requires a redecoration of home and lawn!
What are some of your favorite holiday decorations/traditions? What are some examples you've seen that just go tooooooo far?
I'll jump in later...but, off hand, I heard on the radio the other day that it's projected Americans will spend a projected 10 Million Dollars on Halloween this year. That includes decorations, costumes, and candy.
Now THAT's CRAZY! Wow.
Its nuts! When I was a kid, it might have been a couple pumpkins, but in my neighborhood there are a dozen houses that are fully pimped with goblins and witches and light up ghosts.
I think some of these folks light up their homes year round just so they don't have to put up and take down the lights.
Put 'em up once, change a few bulbs and a couple of lawn figures as the holidays change, and you are good to go all year long. :rolleyes:
Well, it's finally realized---I've just witnessed the TACKIEST lawn decoration of all time!
It is a nativity scene--about 5 feet high--featuring Disney characters--excuse me while I'll go BARF! :-\
Not too impressed with mickey christ?
Or minnie mary? :biggrin: :biggrin:
Not too impressed with mickey christ?
Or goofy wise man? :biggrin: :biggrin:
ROFLMAO!
Actually, Daffy Duck as a shepherd was what really got me............ :spooked:
Wasn't Daffy a Warner Bros. character?
Probably mistook Pluto for Daffy.
Or else, Bugs took a wrong turn at "Al-ba-koik-ee."
Whatever--I just gotta get the balz to take a picture!! They have some rough looking mangy mutts hanging around so that is keeping me from taking the chance--maybe a nice Thanksgiving day carcass will do the trick!
So theres a house in my neighborhood thats already done their Christmas decorating. They started on Friday with some nice garlands on the front porch and wreaths in the windows...looked very nice.
Then on Saturday they put out a HUGE inflatable snowman...a HUGE inflatable reindeer, plus a blow up santa and a giant snowglobe...just a lil overboard I think.
Mostly, those big inflatables don't do too well for Christmas decorations around here.
We generally get a couple of good windstorms.
If they don't float off like big-a$$ technicolor nightmares, they end up shredding themselves after bobbing back and forth like an oversized speed bag being worked by an invisible giant.
LMAO!
thats funny...
last year this same persons inflatables were fairly ruined by an ice storm...but I guess insurance covered them.
I'm going to do a Clark Griswold this year.....my wife has always wanted me to do lights, everywhere, thing on our house...and I usually just kind of blow it off, and it never gets done.....but, this year, I'm goint to illuminate my @ss off this year, while she is at work, and make this the
Hap, Hap, Happiest Christmas, since Bing Crosby, tap-danced with Danny Freankin Kaye.... ;D
Ya know, I never even thought about insurance on those things.
Wow!
Talk about a risk!!
I'm amazed anyone would cover those (isn't that kind of stuff usually excluded?).
well post some pics of it for us!
Im putting up TWO trees this year, because Im having a holiday charity event at my house and have to have the place decked out for that.
Yeah, Henry. Flash a few for us, will ya?
When I was young, my decorations consisted of one sprig of real mistletoe hung strategically over the center of my bed.
Easy to decorate, easy to undecorate.
Lotsa fun in-between.
Quote from: followsthewolf on November 20, 2006, 02:26:35 PM
Yeah, Henry. Flash a few for us, will ya?
When I was young, my decorations consisted of one sprig of real mistletoe hung strategically over the center of my bed.
Easy to decorate, easy to undecorate.
Lotsa fun in-between.
;D
I'll have to try that one too,....I might just get lucky this year.... ;D ;D ;D
Not patented.
Use it with my blessings, Henry.
Hope your good fortune swells with the season.
good fortune, is that what you're calling it now?
:wink:
works for me!! ;D
I suppose it's better than calling it bad luck!! :biggrin:
hence the saying, if it were not for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.... :eek:
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :biggrin: :smitten:
My condolences, Henry.. (he said as he eyed his great good fortune and smiled with contentment).
Quote from: followsthewolf on November 20, 2006, 02:22:48 PM
Ya know, I never even thought about insurance on those things.
Wow!
Talk about a risk!!
I'm amazed anyone would cover those (isn't that kind of stuff usually excluded?).
Interesting...well I've never seen an exclusion on an open peril policy, but I will try to remember to ask my dad...He's the King of Claims.
Well, I got wreaths on all the front windows...lights on all the bushes, pine boughs on the front porch railings, and the downstairs tree put up. How are your holiday decorating plans coming?
You do more than one tree? We live in a ranch style house, but as a tradition only do one. We normally wait until the first weekend in December to decorate the house, so we'll do that this coming weekend. I've gotten out all the old decorations and gone through them and tested lights and made a list of what we need to decorate this year. That's about as far as I've gotten. This will be my second Christmas in California and it's kinda difficult to get into the Christmas spirit when it's in the mid-seventies outside. :smile:
Our neighborhood has an abundance of white "icicle" lights this year. I'm thinking there was a big sale somewhere, and I missed it. Its funny because of the six houses right by us, only one of them had lights up at all last year.
I haven't decided if we are going to put out lights. I'm broke, and frankly can't afford new lights this year unless I buy them next weekend, BUT...I dont' know if I should bother since, even though we have until March to buy or get out, if I know I have to get out anyway, I may not want to prolong it. Ya know?? Hmm...what to do, what to do?
Quote from: MsMojo on November 27, 2006, 10:02:43 AM
You do more than one tree? We live in a ranch style house, but as a tradition only do one. We normally wait until the first weekend in December to decorate the house, so we'll do that this coming weekend. I've gotten out all the old decorations and gone through them and tested lights and made a list of what we need to decorate this year. That's about as far as I've gotten. This will be my second Christmas in California and it's kinda difficult to get into the Christmas spirit when it's in the mid-seventies outside. :smile:
yeah I do two...one in the living room and one in the study (where I spend most of my time). I hear ya... I was in shorts yesterday stringing lights outside....it did NOT feel like Christmas!
Its warm here, too, but its supposed to snow by Friday. Mid 60s today. Weird weather.