Thread: Other Holidays

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I don't do much at all for Christmas, because it is a religious holiday and I am a guilt-ridden Catholic, but Lowe's has some nice things this year, and I am tempted...

There are other holidays?

Originally Posted by msmello

I've been curious about something since I joined here..........

How many of you decorate outdoors for other holidays as well as Halloween?

One of my neighbors said to me the other day, "Ohhhh, I can hardly wait to see what you do for Christmas". And I just stood there like a deer in headlights. I usually throw some lights around the eves of the house and call it real. LOL I have indoor decorations that I put out, and a tree, but the outside gets some lights and nothing more.

Do you go ALL out for other holidays or is Halloween your big decorating holiday?

Lord Yeah, We go out all for every holiday on the calendar, the holiday's keep us youthful at heart year round !

I just throw some lights on the outside tree for Christmas and put up a tree indoors, which ends up getting abused by my 4 demon cats!

this site pretty much sums up what my furballs do to my tree

A Cats Christmas

I'm not that fond of Christmas, I do it for the children. For me Halloween is the only Holiday that matters.

I am a huge Christmas decorator as well. Our HOA does a Christmas decorating contest every year (Its a shame they dont do the same for halloween although it would not be much of a contest) so thats a huge incentive and have one the contest 3 of the past 4 years including last year. Last year we decided to go full LED's using rope light to outline the entire house including all shutters, windows and doors. Yes this was quite expensive, but well worth the time and money spent.

Christmas is nice but will never give me the excitement Halloween does.

I decorate big on Christmas outside and inside as well and have made alot of my decorations that I just could not find anywhere. We just got the gemmy led light show last year and they were awesome. But just as rupertoooo said...."Christmas is nice but will never give me the excitement Halloween does."

I do Christmas big time, since our community has an award for the best decorated houses. My old stone colonial fits in perfectly with Halloween (the right lighting and props making it look like an abandoned house) and Christmas (the right lighting and props making it look like a traditional Christmas card). This Christmas I expect to put out about 26K mini-lights and be visible from space.

Craig

Even though I have only been doing Halloween big for 3 years now, Christmas decorating was our first love.

We trim the entire outside of the house in clear miniature lights, use green and red miniatures on the shutters, use C7 light strings on the actual roof itself in the shape of x-mas trees, an "enchanted forest" consisting of 15 artificial x-mas trees lit up with clear miniatures, light up blow mold elves, polar bears, etc with a giant 10ft tall Enchanted Forest sign held up by 6 inch PVC with red ribbon wrapped around them to look like candy canes.

200 PVC candy canes line the border of our property on all sides with miniature light strings going from cane to cane. Lighted archways on each end of the property over the sidewalks lead to flashing runway lights for Santas sleigh and reindeer, along with blow mold x-mas carolers and ropelight presents under trees.

Inflatables are NOT ALLOWED on my property...lol. We try to keep it looking as traditional as possible. I bought the GE Lights and Sounds of Christmas about 6 months ago, so I'm going to experiment with that this year.

Nox Arcana ~ I would LOVE to see a pic of your Christmas set up. In particular, the pvc candy canes. Would you mind PM'ing me a pic or a link to a pic?

I'm not sure if you'll be able to see the candy canes in this pic. There are also animated figures in all the windows.