I do like some christmas lights but they are usually subtle , tasteful and white. I'm not a snob but a house with red everywhere , flashing santas and reindeers just looks horrible and tacky.
People a;ways go waaaay OTT in my treet, I love the kitsch, plus it does lok festive, it's just a shame that my house looks like super miserable in comparisin. I'll just pretend I'm a muslim or something.
We have a turning down the road where each year they add more Xmas lights and it has now escalated into a competative thing between houses. I wouldn't mind but we are in one of the better neighbourhoods!
Do people who festoon the outside of their house with hundreds of lights do it just to show off how much they can afford the electricity bill ?
in a "Oooh, look at ME" kind of way!
The strange thing is...it always seems to me that it's the poorer areas and council estates that have more and more lights outside their houses.
Perhaps that's why they have no money or savings? They just spend every penny they get on useless crap?
I quite like lights in outdoor trees, but strings that are used in lines to mark out the edge of a house and it's windows look awful, IMO - not christmassy at all. Fairy lights look better "bunched" than in strings.
Do people who festoon the outside of their house with hundreds of lights do it just to show off how much they can afford the electricity bill ?
in a "Oooh, look at ME" kind of way!
Wait till you see this display then put up by none other than Paul Toole (and I'm not making that part up):
Around here there is a competition in the paper for it
There is one local house which always participates which is a mini-mansion in a very Conservative area. It's not just for the great unwashed I quite like it
If I had a house of any decent size which I owned I'd do it too I think!
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Makes me feel all christmassy and brings a smile to my face,:)
Now to me that is just boring.
The strange thing is...it always seems to me that it's the poorer areas and council estates that have more and more lights outside their houses.
Perhaps that's why they have no money or savings? They just spend every penny they get on useless crap?
It looks like a f****** nightclub.
Maybe you should knock on his door and ask for a gin & tonic
I might do that later.
Me and the Mrs can get dressed up and go over there.
You sure you don't live across from a barber's?
I think he may have actually turned it into a nightclub.
If I see any tacky limo's pulling up later I'll let everyone know.
Perfect opportunity to blast some Abba at him then!
Wait till you see this display then put up by none other than Paul Toole (and I'm not making that part up):
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/165845/Christmas-crazy-homeowner-lights-up-street/Christmas-crazy-homeowner-lights-up-street
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/things_to_do/newsid_9176000/9176313.stm
There is one local house which always participates which is a mini-mansion in a very Conservative area. It's not just for the great unwashed
If I had a house of any decent size which I owned I'd do it too I think!