None of the poll items would be true for me.
Normally I don't decorate outside. Mainly because it's cold - kinda goes with winter. I never cared for the idea of taking the stuff down when the temp is below freezing and leaving it up until spring is not an option - My little bit'o OCD would get the best of me and I'd be outside in 20 below weather yaking down strings of lights.
However...
This year I did...
For the last few years I've been eyeballing lighted trees - not the ones that have a string or two that are kind of tossed on them and plugged in. I'm talking about one tree that someone spent 20 hours looping and tieing and stringing these superbright lights on. They put them on in solid strings of reds, greens whites, blues - all bright and they just look gorgeous.
I though I'd try my hand at it so I bought enough strings for 2,000 lights. I painstakingly wrapped them on every major limb on the tree (Crabapple). It tool me about five hours to get all the lights on. I thought... "that wasn't so bad." So I went in the garage and dug around some tubs until I cound some more lights. I spend the next two to three hours stringing them along the edges of the house (I checked each string before I hung it up). Everything was going very well. My wife came out and gave me morale support and even made me some coffee... she spent some time with me while I took a short break. She did have me rearrange a few strings which she thought would be better place "over here" or "over there." I didn't care, I was having too much fun just doing my thing.
I had finish about an hour before sunset. I hadn't turned on the tree lights yet because I wanted to get the full effect of 2,000 lights on that small crabapple tree.
The time came... we went outside and I plugged in the tree. "Damn," I thought. That's not that bright at all. It was actually a little dim. It didn't look bad, but it just wasn't very bright. Then it dawned on me... LED's - I was supposed to use LED lights.
It still looks rather nice. Even my wife thinks so.
