Decorating Your House with Xmas Lights, why?

[Rambo]

Does anyone here partake in the strange phenomenen that is sweeping the country?

I find it very hard to understand anyone that spends so much money and time to decorate their entire property.

For me it looks very tacky and seems to have turned into some kind of competition these days.

There are two houses in Worthing that battle it out against each other every year now, they are brothers I beleive. Very impressive but brings the road to a standstill in the evenings with people from all over Sussex coming to see them!
Its like bloody Blackpool Illuminations!!

 

[CHAPPERS]

I think it's ridiculous. They say it's because they love Christmas, if they really did they wouldn't reduce it into this disgusting tacky commercial display that it is no.

What's wrong with a few plain fairy lights around the tree then eh?

 

[Icy Gull]

Another bit of tacky American lifestyle crosses the Atlantic

 

[Gary Nelson]

Robbie Raggio who is one of the money men who is/maybe putting some money into the club does it every year. His house is in Woodland Drive. Does look ott but all the proceeds go the rocking horse appeal so fair play to him

 

[Yorkie]

I do put lights in the window as well as around the tree.

I have one white set of outdoor lights which go around the front door.

I don't have a problem with other houses though. At least it looks cheerful.

 

[Gary Nelson]

No harm I think for 3-4 weeks of the yeay. Too many English people are stuck and snoby about what looks good. Or hate to try anything new and different. If only I could move my family and the Albion abroad!

 

[Marc]

I once decorated my pushbike, geniously had a small radio controlled car battery running the lights, little Xmas tree on the handle bars, tinsle everywhere...looked fantastic

 

[Lady Whistledown]

There's plenty of incredibly tacky stuff around but it does no harm to anyone does it? It's not as though it's there all year round.

I think it's a laugh and if people want to brighten the place up for 4 weeks of the year then all power to them. I remember reading that Robbie Raggio faced complaints from some of the snobbier residents of Woodland Drive over his display: how mean spirited can you get? If he was doing something to lower the value of their houses then fair enough, but it's a bunch of fairy lights, which bring a smile to the face of a lot of people. There's not many things these days which do that are there?

Not to mention the fortune he raises for charity.

Don't be such humbugs!

 

[Easy 10]

I put one of those tacky little Christmas dashboard lights on my, err, dashboard a couple of years ago. Plugged it into the cigarette lighter, and the feckin thing blew all my fuses. Needless to say, the lights were hurled out of the window immediatly.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

BAH Humbug.

Cheer up you miserable old git !.

I like the Crimbo decorations but then again have I mentioned that I like the new Will Young single.

 

[Rambo]

I wouldnt say Iam miserable about the whole thing, just find some of it completely over the top.
Good luck to all those people who obviously have far too much time on their hands to carry out such decorations.

 

[zefarelly]

a real tree with tasteful decorations is a big yes

lighting your whole f***ing house up like a pikey with a van load of stolen lights and his mains tapped of the neighbours is a huge no-no . . . .fortunately we live in a tasteful road and dont have anything to worry about ( I hope!)

but we did lat night see an absolute disgrace, lights everywhere, it was West Street in Shoreham . . . . .

I think we should have a name and shame . . .its a waste of valuable energy! electricity should be charged double for it!

 

[Easy 10]

Well my two little-uns LOVE seeing the lights on peoples houses when we drive past. I even have to take a certain route along a road that has several houses absolutely dripping with lights and Santas etc, cos they like seeing it and it gets them even more excited about Christmas.

Now that CAN'T be a bad thing in my opinion.

 

[Rambo]

Well my two little-uns LOVE seeing the lights on peoples houses when we drive past. I even have to take a certain route along a road that has several houses absolutely dripping with lights and Santas etc, cos they like seeing it and it gets them even more excited about Christmas.

Now that CAN'T be a bad thing in my opinion.

Its adding more traffic to the roads.

 

[Brovion]

My father-in-law lives in quite a posh part of Orpington and over the years I've noticed more and more houses putting on displays and for the last couple of years almost every house has something either in the window on a tree or round the gables.

Being a nice, middle-class area it is all done incredibly tastefully, there isn't a plastic Santa in sight, and to be honest it looks absolutely fantastic - much better than Regent Street or Oxford Street look nowadays.

 

[Marc]

Well my two little-uns LOVE seeing the lights on peoples houses when we drive past. I even have to take a certain route along a road that has several houses absolutely dripping with lights and Santas etc, cos they like seeing it and it gets them even more excited about Christmas.

Now that CAN'T be a bad thing in my opinion.

Go down Manor Hall road and theres a south turn off and its FILLED with lights, must be a good 20 or so houses just drapped (sp?) in the stuff, then theres the one at the west end of manor hall road - cant miss it!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Don't go Stateside at x-mas then Rambo, in the street I lived on it was like Las Vegas at night - sleighs and santas on roofs, you didn't need to tun the lights on when you got home, you just opened the curtains. Even the trailer parks were at it, and you could go on this piss take tour called the 'Trailer Trash X-mas Tour' where you'd get driven round to see all the luminous plastic flamingos and x-mas decs all over these static homes.

 

[Rambo]

I think the states is where it has all come from.
Would love to see someone putting them up in 'Chevy Chase' stylie over here.
Now that would make my Christmas.

 

[Harvey]

drapped (sp?)

draped

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

This was one of the things I most remember about Gillingham. At Christmas, every single house looked like the f***ing Griswald's, it must have been a drain on the national grid.

I've never seen anything like it anywhere else - you expect little pockets of people going nuts with lights/sleighs etc, there are a couple in Bevendean near where my folks live, but in Gillingham it was the entire town.