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Now I scour thrift shops and estate sales for retro 50s and 60s Shiny Brite ornaments. I've abandoned the Victorian ribbons in favor of tinsel. And this year, I am switching to colored lights on my tree.
I plan to decorate like it's 1959 - and enjoy the various styles that others use.
To each their own!
I like the old fashioned, traditional look best, too. It seems so homey and warm and reminds me of Tiny Tim's house and Charlie Brown's Christmas and traditional scenes.
I love coming home in the evening and turning on the lights on the tree, a green tree with the multi-colored blinking lights, with packages underneath. I use an artificial tree (frugal), but it looks real. I love the light scent of pine candles burning. Very Christmasy.
I hate those projection things that just shine lights on the house. If you're too lazy to put up decorations, just go with a wreath and be done with it. I also wonder what it's like inside the house with those things projecting on your windows.
Do you mean the star showers? LOL we have them, and we love them! And the lights look really cool when they shine into the house through the front windows. I guess because of the angle, they only shine on the ceilings and it looks awesome.
We got the "understated" star shower thingie. It doesn't move and the lights are subdued, but they're there. You really can't even see them until you get directly in front of the house, which I like. We put some other lights in our front flower beds too. Those were those webbed lights that you have to spread out across the bushes (which we did). Oh, and I forgot, we also bought some large outdoor candles that operate on a timer (all our lights are connected to timers) so they come on at 4:30 and cut off at midnight. I like driving up to our house and seeing all those twinkling lights. The star shower thing twinkles but the one we got doesn't actually move - the multicolored lights just twinkle. FUN! My husband got it for me as a surprise - he saw me admiring them at Bed Bath and Beyond. WOOHOOOOOOO!!!!
And we hung small wreaths on each window across the front of the house and a big one on the front door.
Like others have said, I don't really hate on other peoples' Christmas decorations. I like that people get out and decorate their homes and yards. The Saturday after Thanksgiving was sunny and crisp here, and people were out all over the place and ladders were propped up against nearly every house we drove past, it seemed (and I bet the ERs were full of people who had fallen off those ladders - LOL). That made me feel happy.
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I LIKE lights of all one color, esp. blue. I dislike all white ...that's not really a color. White is the absence of color....
When my kids were growing up, we would let them decide what color bulb to put in the candles in the front-facing windows. It was always blue or green, and we were definitely the only house in the neighborhood that didn't have white in the windows. I don't know if the times have changed or if it's because we live in a different part of the country, but everyone on my current street uses multi-colored lights.
Plastic nativity scenes. True story: When I was a little girl, I saw a yard with several decorations: Santa, Mrs. Claus, the reindeer, elves, Santa's gift bag, the sleigh, shiny gifts, the whole Santa Claus getup. Then to the side in huge wooden letters saying "JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON" Oh, the irony. My mother and I had a good laugh over that one.
I used to drive around with a friend and look at Christmas decorations and for houses like that I would say "Hand me the bat." She would ask me if I liked a certain display and I'd just say bat for no. We laughed a lot. We're not friends any more but I still smile when I see tacky displays like that and in my mind I say "Hand me the bat."
those displays with what appears to be hobos crowded into a lean-to with the farm animals seemingly concentrating on something in the middle, what are they doing anyways...throwing dice or something?
Well, it's kind of hard to decorate my house as I'm Jewish. I have my candle-lit menorah inside, but I do put my electric menorah in the window during Hanukkah. I sometimes wonder if my neighbors know what it is. They probably think it's a strange window light that I only have on display for a short while, lol.
^I remember reading an article in the paper once when they were talking to different families who made those over-the-top displays every year---the type that people drive to go see. One of the families was Jewish and the husband said, "I'm Jewish. But I just love Christmas decorations so I decorate for Christmas anyway."
Anyway, I like Christmas decorations. Most things do not bother me. The only thing I can think of that really bothers me is this one house in my neighborhood is completely covered in these bright, piercing blue (LED?) lights and it is so overwhelming I cannot even look at the house because it physically pains my eyes.
They usually look bad because they're all deflated! I always wonder if it's because they are so cheap...or because of the cold air, or because someone just hated them so much they took the air out on purpose!
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Huh? I hate those things but its because they're unplugged during the day???
What? Inflatables have to be plugged in just to STAY inflated? Not just to be lit up?
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Those were those webbed lights that you have to spread out across the bushes (which we did). Oh, and I forgot, we also bought some large outdoor candles that operate on a timer (all our lights are connected to timers) so they come on at 4:30 and cut off at midnight. I like driving up to our house and seeing all those twinkling lights. The star shower thing twinkles but the one we got doesn't actually move - the multicolored lights just twinkle. FUN! My husband got it for me as a surprise - he saw me admiring them at Bed Bath and Beyond. WOOHOOOOOOO!!!!
