the decorating wars have begun.
every christmas we decorate with candles in the windows and icicle lights. last year we added a rough sled with skates, and i used to have a wrought iron basket for fake christmas flowers, and it also hid the extension cord for the lights. i like a clean, simple house and with the style of our house (old farmstyle) the lights look really attractive.
for years we were the only house on the block with christmas lights. our next door neighbor has regular lights hanging from their porch, but they also use them all year round so i don't know if it's fair to include them. anyway, their lights are nice.
last year our neighbors across the street hung up icicle lights and garland around their railing. the house is made up of 2 doubles, so naturally the lights don't match. one set was white, and the other set was colored. this is why i couldn't live in a half a double - my neighbor would have to match my half of the house.
the house catty corner from us downstreet had candles and a light up santa last year. this year they upped the ante by keeping the candles on all year (expensive light bill), put lighted garland across the front and put matching sleds by each door (this house is also half a double.) they also have lighted deer in their side yard and santa is now nowhere to be seen. the display would be really pretty if the neighbor on the other side had candles in his window too. i joked to hubby that our neighbors must have seen our sleds and then copied the look for their porch too.
the house of gaud award goes to our new neighbors across the street who live in the side where the porch people lived. they put up icicle lights and wound their porch railing with garland and these obnoxious flashing big stars. i call the family the people we never see becos, honestly, i don't know who lives there becos we never see them (they use their back door but i never see them get their mail, clean around their house, etc). they must have put the display up last night when i was knitting becos when i came home here were these flashing stars. i don't know when they turned them off but they were still on when i went to bed (midnight). i hate flashing lights. i know someone people like them but i don't.
not to toot my horn, but i still think our house looks the nicest on the block.
every christmas we decorate with candles in the windows and icicle lights. last year we added a rough sled with skates, and i used to have a wrought iron basket for fake christmas flowers, and it also hid the extension cord for the lights. i like a clean, simple house and with the style of our house (old farmstyle) the lights look really attractive.
for years we were the only house on the block with christmas lights. our next door neighbor has regular lights hanging from their porch, but they also use them all year round so i don't know if it's fair to include them. anyway, their lights are nice.
last year our neighbors across the street hung up icicle lights and garland around their railing. the house is made up of 2 doubles, so naturally the lights don't match. one set was white, and the other set was colored. this is why i couldn't live in a half a double - my neighbor would have to match my half of the house.
the house catty corner from us downstreet had candles and a light up santa last year. this year they upped the ante by keeping the candles on all year (expensive light bill), put lighted garland across the front and put matching sleds by each door (this house is also half a double.) they also have lighted deer in their side yard and santa is now nowhere to be seen. the display would be really pretty if the neighbor on the other side had candles in his window too. i joked to hubby that our neighbors must have seen our sleds and then copied the look for their porch too.
the house of gaud award goes to our new neighbors across the street who live in the side where the porch people lived. they put up icicle lights and wound their porch railing with garland and these obnoxious flashing big stars. i call the family the people we never see becos, honestly, i don't know who lives there becos we never see them (they use their back door but i never see them get their mail, clean around their house, etc). they must have put the display up last night when i was knitting becos when i came home here were these flashing stars. i don't know when they turned them off but they were still on when i went to bed (midnight). i hate flashing lights. i know someone people like them but i don't.
not to toot my horn, but i still think our house looks the nicest on the block.
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