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It doesn't keep me awake at night, and I'm being somewhat sarcastic, but it's tacky. To me, having a neighbor with frosty the snowman on their front lawn in springtime is no worse than if they didn't mow the lawn or parked junky cars out front.
we live in Westchester and I had this conversation with my husband last weekend when he suggested the snow would probably stop people getting a ladder out and digging out wires etc..... but then I noticed quite few houses with wreaths still on the front doors...... thats just lazy.
It doesn't keep me awake at night, and I'm being somewhat sarcastic, but it's tacky. To me, having a neighbor with frosty the snowman on their front lawn in springtime is no worse than if they didn't mow the lawn or parked junky cars out front.
How ironic, a Californian lecturing about tackiness!
You are confusing CA with FL, and even then it only got bad because all of the NYers took over.
Honestly, near the beach at least, I don't recall seeing much tackiness in CA. Besides, the annoying materialistic star-chasers that you see on TV and such are generally transplants - most of the CA natives are completely normal for the most part. Assuming you stay away from the inland empire.
we live in Westchester and I had this conversation with my husband last weekend when he suggested the snow would probably stop people getting a ladder out and digging out wires etc..... but then I noticed quite few houses with wreaths still on the front doors...... thats just lazy.
This is such a funny thread. We usually try to take off our lights by early Feb., but with the amount of snow and rain that has been coming, I think most people that still have them up () just want to wait for the weather to warm up and stop snowing before getting out the ladder.
I'm embarrassed to admit, but my mother leaves her wreath on in Michigan until Easter, when she switches it out for her Easter/Spring wreath and then until September with her Fall wreath then back to her Holiday...
Well, Christmas doesn't end until after the 25th. It ends, technically, on Epiphany, in January. So, this means, for example, it is possible for some people to get annoyed when people take down wreaths on the 26th or Jan. 1st because that makes an anti-Christmas statement of a sort. But, given that everyone is celebrating different interpretations, why bother getting upset? White lights and greens look pretty in the snow. What's the harm in them? A lot of the Valentine stuff is tacky. Leave them up until spring if they look good! Great idea.
Our lights were frozen in place until a few days ago. I think the last of the snow has finally melted off our roof and the hubby plans to take the lights down on his next day off. We haven't turned them on since the begining of January.
It doesn't keep me awake at night, and I'm being somewhat sarcastic, but it's tacky. To me, having a neighbor with frosty the snowman on their front lawn in springtime is no worse than if they didn't mow the lawn or parked junky cars out front.
I don't mow my lawn. It has transformed into a meadow with flowers, wild strawberries and numerous butterflies. It's actually quite wonderful. Neighbors love it.
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) just want to wait for the weather to warm up and stop snowing before getting out the ladder. 
