I put them up for the children in our family. The little ones really get a kick out of them. Otherwise ,I could take them or leave them. Plus we have a little competition on our street. Lights up at just about every house on the street.
I’m big time into Christmas. I don’t go crazy, just a couple strings of lights, but I love them and would hang lights and put up a tree whether I had kids in the house or not.
That said, I haven’t put lights out yet. Gotta get on that this week.
I wouldn’t bother with the lights or any decorating but the rest of the family likes it, especially the kids. But it’s just a few strings on the roofs edge.
Total opposite of Carl - we have our tree up with multicolored lights and the nativity scene on the mantle, etc, but for exterior decoration we’ve put up holly we found growing near the castle and that’s it for the moment. I keep meaning to order these window suction cup candle holders so we can do the new england-style ‘welcome lights,’ one votive per window pane. Still haven’t gotten around to it yet, though.
We do the electric candles in the windows and the tree but nothing else so far. The wife would like some lights around the house eventually so one of these years we’ll (I’ll) probably have to do that. We’ll be keeping it very simple though.
We put up a nice tree Sunday and decorated it Monday night. It’s beginning to look something like Christmas all around the living room. I’ll have to get some lights up outside this weekend.
We have a Santa Fe style house with a flat roof so we used to put electric luminarios along the roof edge, but when they finally dry rotted the kids were gone and I never bothered with them again. Laziness I guess
We go overboard with the tree every year, going out to the farm to cut it ourselves. This year, I’m guessing our tree is 12-14’ tall (I didn’t measure it before putting it in the stand). As far as lights, I put some up every year, but nothing crazy. Plenty of my neighbors take care of that.
Fortunately, my lights are still up from last year, because I’m not gonna have any time to put any up. I’m working every day and most nights between now and Christmas. I hope to find time to go get a tree on Fri. We live right in the midst of many Christmas tree farms, so it shouldn’t take too long. Then I hope my wife has time to decorate it.
My neighbor really goes to town, and is famous in the area. As in, when I give directions at any time of the year on how to get to my driveway, I can say turn left after that Christmas light guys house. It is pretty cool though, I enjoy it, and he is about 600 yards away so I still get black night sky.
I usually only do a single evergreen tree in the yard with white lights, assuming they turn on again when I plug them in.
lights on the tree. maybe around the edge of the picture window, depending on how much time/effort my wife wants to put into it. nativity somehwere in the house. lots of greens over all the doors and anywhere else she can find a place to stick them.
