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Industrial Light & Magic
Topic Started: Nov 27 2006, 10:16 AM (287 Views)
Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Wish they'd come by and put up my Christmas lights...a nice Star Wars/Manger Scene thing would be innovative... :silly:

So....how many of us light 'em up for the holidays?
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Frank_W
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I get griped at by the Missus to put up Christmas lights, every year. So far, I've done a good job of resisting. :lol2:
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Mikhailoh
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I put them up Saturday. I don't mind when it is 65 and sunny. Plus we got a new Costco crystalline snowman this year that is really quite grand.
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Jane D'Oh
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We have a row of icicles across the front of the house, our neighbours did it this year. I'll put lights in the tree when I get around to it. It's much too early to decorate for Christmas yet. I'll wait until my fingers get really cold trying to string lights outside!!!
Pfft.
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DivaDeb
HOLY CARP!!!
I have a Santa that my Daddy painted on my front porch and a stack of lighted up presents with just a lighted garland over my front window. That's it for outside. Inside I decorate.
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RosemaryTwo
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As Frank Griswold called it, "exterior illumination" is an all-male job in our house.

In our neighborhood, if you don't have at least 10 million small lights on your house by the Friday after Thanksgiving, you are considered a Grinch. Coming home the other night around 2:00am, I was amazed to see how many people kept their lights on ALL night (everyone except us?). We have some Hindu families, and they put blue lights up for Diwali, and will keep them up through Christmas. I think it's time corporate America started putting some more pressure on the Jews of the suburbs to put up some tacky lighted manorah (sp?) displays. I resent that everyone doesn't feel the same pressure that I do to flood the house with 10,000 watts every night. <_<
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Jane D'Oh
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You know, we had that competition in Ptbo, and the thing of it was, you had to have the latest fashion of lights - one year it was icicles, the next it was swags - strange. We did not compete, Mr D'oh is happy to be a Grinch!
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Aqua Letifer
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We used to get very much into the whole lighting thing (it would take over a week to put everything up), but I think my parents got sick of it. Now, we have a couple of wreaths we'll put on the doors, but that's about it as far as outside lights are concerned.
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JBryan
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I did a row of icicles one year. The urge to do it any more has just never returned.

A funny story about Christmas lights ( I know I have told this one before) is my sister's ex was notoriously bad about removing the Christmas lights at the end of the holiday season so he comes home one night around the end of June after a late night at work to find that my sister had switched on the Christmas lights making their house the only one in the neighborhood (possibly on the entire planet) ablaze in Christmas glory. He took them down the following weekend.
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Horace
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The first residential ones I saw were put up the day after Thanksgiving, on a house on my walking route. I appreciated the effort! I love christmas lights.
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LWpianistin
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HOLY CARP!!!
My parents never did, and I probably won't.

We put up wreaths instead.
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Frank_W
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JBryan
Nov 27 2006, 07:35 PM
I did a row of icicles one year. The urge to do it any more has just never returned.

A funny story about Christmas lights ( I know I have told this one before) is my sister's ex was notoriously bad about removing the Christmas lights at the end of the holiday season so he comes home one night around the end of June after a late night at work to find that my sister had switched on the Christmas lights making their house the only one in the neighborhood (possibly on the entire planet) ablaze in Christmas glory. He took them down the following weekend.

Oh no: This is a Southern thing! Living in the South means that EVERY day can be Christmas!! LMAO

We have someone that lives a few houses over from us, and thank God they aren't our neighbors, but they have the whole house lit up with multi-colored Christmas lights, and they keep them on most nights of the year! :doh: Maybe it calms the hound dogs that live under the porch? :devil:
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Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
I've always had lights; it is one of my favourite parts of Christmas! The big trend here are the new small LED lights, they have a nice clear brightness that cuts through our usual wet grey winter weather, without flooding the neighbourhood with light. I have just blue lights, mainly because all the multi-coloured strings were sold out when I went to buy them. :P
Wish I had them up for this snow!
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RosemaryTwo
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HOLY CARP!!!
Oooh, LED lights. Exciting. My twinkle lights are failing us this year, LED may be in my future.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
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