Guys what's your thought on x-mas decorations

As far as I'm concerned, for a property to be considered adequately decorated and lit at Christmastime, pilots should be able to use it for visual navigation at 20,000 feet.

My wife disagrees, so the outdoor lighting so far is minimal (to me). I add a little every year.

Both indoors and outdoors is a constant compromise between "tasteful and classic" (her) and "anything worth doing is worth overdoing" (me).

You see that a lot up north becuase it's so cold and people don't want to get out there in January and take them down.  It bugs me when peole don't take their lights up until spring time.

I've been converted from a MI yankee to s southern belle, so i still know how the North operates with Christmas lights- lol!

There's a few people in my area who leave them up until spring. Some of them turn the lights on every night through the winter until they take them down.

THAT I respect.

Ok, so I do every bit of the decorating all by myself.  I buy the lights, I untangle the lights, I climb up on the ladder and attach them to the house, I hang the wreath, I decorate the tree, I hang the stockings, I do all the Santa shopping, I re-decorate the tree after the cat and dog destroy it, etc...  I do it all and my husband doesn't lift one lazy finger to help me.  Oh, did I mention he is Jewish?    He is in charge of the menorah.

And, by the way, I do take the lights down in January even if it is frickin' cold out!  I hate seeing people with Christmas lights on in February let alone Spring or Summer.

I do the outside, she does the inside.  If I had my choice, my house would look like the Griswold house, but my wife want's tasteful. So it's a bit of a compromise.  I'll see if I can get some pics of it tonight

Chris

I have no Christmas cheer left.  Thank my job and the people who worship there for that. 

Decorate?  I'm lucky if I happen to wear red and green boxers.

Steve

OK, so I didn't fall off the roof but I DID fall off the ladder.  As I started to come down the ladder, something under one of the feet gave way and it started to slide along the wall so I just jumped off.  I'm OK - it ended up being like jumping off a 6 or 8 foot ledge onto hard, flat ground.  I felt and heard a nice crunch in my spine right between my shoulder blades but I have all range of motion and no acute pain.  Merry effin Christmas, right?

BTW: the lights look good.