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This is yet another reason why I'm grateful for our more restrictive HOA. No outside Christmas decorations can go up before Thanksgiving and they have to be taken down by New Years. Keeps everything neat and predictable and you don't have to wonder when it's appropriate to put them up or take them down. I love the season and the decorations but it's nice to have some guidelines in place.
...are you sure that some of the displays weren't for Diwali (Nov. 11th)? If there's any kind of Indian community, many would have lights up as part of this Hindu festival...but probably not Santas, or red and green.....!
This is yet another reason why I'm grateful for our more restrictive HOA. No outside Christmas decorations can go up before Thanksgiving and they have to be taken down by New Years. Keeps everything neat and predictable and you don't have to wonder when it's appropriate to put them up or take them down. I love the season and the decorations but it's nice to have some guidelines in place.
I'd rather be annoyed at my neighbor for putting up his decorations early than live in an HOA that tells me when and when I cannot put up decorations. I prefer freedom.
Prison has guidelines and is very predictable too. Living in an HOA is similar to living in a prison. But voluntary.
I'd rather be annoyed at my neighbor for putting up his decorations early than live in an HOA that tells me when and when I cannot put up decorations. I prefer freedom.
Prison has guidelines and is very predictable too. Living in an HOA is similar to living in a prison. But voluntary.
I fear this will turn into a love em or hate em HOA thread...again!
I like the lights too. Someone has posted on another thread about the custom in Alaska of leaving colored lights on all through the long nights all winter there. I think that is a great custom. I'd like to see lights through January, at any rate.
In the Scandinavian countries many people have an oversize "candle" which burns outside their door during the long, winter nights. It is a warm/homey touch which breaks the dark of the long winter nights. Yu see them in front of restaurants, shops and offices as well.
For some reason you cannot buy them here in the states, and, sadly, trying to get them through customs or onto an airplane on a return trip from Scandinavia is next to impossible.
Is it possible the houses you are seeing are owned by Indians? Diwali was a couple days ago and it is pretty common to put up what seem like Christmas lights as part of the celebration.
I love lights on a house/in a yard just about all the months of the year. If they can come up with a holiday to celebrate, and do it somewhat tastefully, more power to them. January is a little problematic, of course, unless you leave the Christmas lights up overlong, but hey - at least they're cheerful. I don't decorate at all myself except for putting my electric menorah in the front window at Hanukkah, but I love to see all the pretty lights on other peoples' homes. It's kind of depressing when they all get taken down in January and everything looks cold and dark again. Bleah!
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