Christmas Decorations

This probably should be a WTF. Why? This picture was taken on Nov 18th, 5 days before Thanksgiving, in Bucks County, PA. C'mon people, slow down. :rolleyes:

Oh man the stores were floggin decorations BEFORE halloween up here. WTF? Desperate much?

Yup, came home last night to my neighbors newly installed decorations. Actually gave me a jolt. I felt like ripping them down! 'Course the kiddies are all excited.

One holiday at a time, please. Thank you very much.

My decorations are up.

Or, should I say, still up. :redface:

My wife and I have a novel approach to decorating for Christmas. We live in a neighborhood where people get down right competitive, there is even a judging and awards. most people opt for loads of those icicle lights, and traditional themed illuminated yard art of all shapes and sizes.

I decided rather then compete to make a different kind of statement. I put out about 120 full size snow goose hunting decoys that I no longer use much. They are all over the front yard with lights and we put little red bows on their necks.

I keep wondering if we will one day get a letter from the deed restriction people. Needless to say, I'm still waiting for one of the awards! ;)

Boscov's had Christmas decorations for sale before Labor Day.

chrisinhouston wrote:

I put out about 120 full size snow goose hunting decoys that I no longer use much. They are all over the front yard with lights and we put little red bows on their necks.

I'd like to see a picture of that. :thumb:

Okay I can't compete with any of that
But I have had people making pilgrimages from.... well, other floors, to see my Christmas Tree.

Yes, that is supposed to be my In-Tray. But it has more important work to do this month, holding Secret Santa presents for a start.

I've got a framed picture of a reindeer on my cubicle with a blinking red LED behind the nose.

At home, I got 5 strings of LED Christmas lights that I hung vertically in my window, filling it with light. Damn, those things are bright.

I pulled a snowman mug out of the cupboard and set it on my kitchen counter. DONE!

I miss my old job at odd times. I had a co-worker that had a plastic reindeer that pooped M&M's when you pressed down on him. Tragically, he fell off his perch and is head was mounted on the cube wall all year round.

I wish I had a reindeer that pooped candy

Of the poo-in critters.

http://www.prankplace.com/pooping_santa.htm

bbro wrote:

I wish I had a reindeer that pooped candy

If you look around on the cellar, you'll find an xoBruce (I think) link to some very nice wooden versions. Or you can just google "reindeer poop candy" and find a cheap plastic version.

Dagney wrote:

Of the poo-in critters.

http://www.prankplace.com/pooping_santa.htm

It was the OH Deer ones!! The face is exactly the same!!

There are a lot of disturbing stuff on there, though!!

Eventually I will find the closet where I stowed the pre-decorated tree with the cardinals on it. The birds, not the baseball team. I will put it on top of the television and plug it in for my mother's enjoyment.

At work I have decorated thusly: I switched out my Halloween Blair Witch Project coffee mug for my Charlie Brown Christmas mug. On one side it has Snoopy and Charlie Brown looking at Snoopy's doghouse decorated for the contest. The other (important) side has Charlie Brown sitting with Lucy and talking to her at her booth. You know, the one with the sign that says "Psychiatric Help, 5¢ ".

Last year, during the critical decorating week, I covered for the secretary and had full access to the filing cabinet where she stows stuff she doesn't want people to know she has. In there I found MY supply of Christmas Decorations for the office. I hummed carols and slapped a bunch of window clings onto the bullet proof glass. Unfortunately, for the first time, the Crisis Boss (I have a separate Commitment Boss who is my actual supervisor) remembered that Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig were aggregately called "Looney Tunes" and she made me take them down. I was allowed to keep my "Merry Christmoose," but only if I went out and got Chanukah and Kwanzaa decorations as well to be "inclusive." Apparently having a pagan do the Christmas decorating wasn't sufficiently inclusive.

dar512 wrote:

If you look around on the cellar, you'll find an xoBruce (I think) link to some very nice wooden versions. Or you can just google "reindeer poop candy" and find a cheap plastic version.

I have the Poopin' Moose. I think I posted it in Dodads.

I had, but the link's bad.

this year for the first time we have a fake x-mas-tree! Plastic one! Because living together with the baby and 3 cats isnt great with a real one! There 's nothing that we unpacked yet, over here in Belgium its kinda traditional that we do it the weekend after Sinterklaas on the 6th... You have exceptions offcourse, the one who got a whole load to plug are already busy-busy!
The houses arent that big and are made invisible because of the light!
I also remind myself every year to take some pictures but i always forget to take my camera! If i do take it one time ill come show some Belgian outrageousness! :D

wolf wrote:

Unfortunately, for the first time, the Crisis Boss (I have a separate Commitment Boss who is my actual supervisor) remembered that Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig were aggregately called "Looney Tunes" and she made me take them down.

:lol2:

I finally got the tree assembled (we don't do real trees, it's just not worth the effort or money to me) and fully decorated--and with the variety of distractions around me it only took three days! Technically, however, it's not complete yet, because I need my husband to pre-drill a new hole to add a fifth stocking*, and I need to go buy a new star for the top of the tree because I finally got sick enough of our old angel thing to get rid of it this year.

[size=1]*I could pre-drill it myself, but that would require me to know where my husband hid the drill bits the last time he used them. He does not precisely know either, at this point.[/size]

Shawnee123 wrote:

I pulled a snowman mug out of the cupboard and set it on my kitchen counter. DONE!

A Christmas decorator after my own heart.

York wrote:

this year for the first time we have a fake x-mas-tree! Plastic one! Because living together with the baby and 3 cats isnt great with a real one!

You need an upside down, hanging from the ceiling, baby & cat proof, tree. :D

Dagney wrote:

Of the poo-in critters.

http://www.prankplace.com/pooping_santa.htm

We had the reindeer.
I'll take some pics of our decorations soon. My son has some of his own, including his own little tree (that used to be mine for my office at work :sniff: ). It has lots of the Rankin-Bass figures on it.
We don't have it up this year, but I have a collection of old-world-glass and a black tree to put it on. It goes in my study. I have told my wife "not until he is sixteen".

:love:

Can I get that on a mug, Bruce?

I think those trees look awesome!

Is that Ridley Creek?

Hahaha Bruce! What a great idea! So , ill need some glue to hold them balls in!
Nice X-maslane ! I cant wait to start driving by those overdo houses!:p

wolf wrote:

Is that Ridley Creek?

No, not local. :headshake Front Range, CO.

And Oregon. :D

Next week we'll be going to see the Osborne Family Lights at Disney MGM - Hopefully our photos will turn out. The bits that I"ve seen of them (and I'm trying to not look too much, because I want to be surprised) are amazing.

Dagney wrote:

Next week we'll be going to see the Osborne Family Lights at Disney MGM - Hopefully our photos will turn out. The bits that I"ve seen of them (and I'm trying to not look too much, because I want to be surprised) are amazing.

I'm so glad I googled that before making a comment about Ozzy & Sharon... I konw the difference now :redface:

Heheh, that was my first thought too.....Ozzy and Sharon aren't quite 'Mickey Friendly'.

:)

Bad link, this should work.;)
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/specialEvents?id=OsborneLightsSpecialEventPage

Except that they are all white lights, a local school for exceptionally bad children does the completely covered tree thing.

Hehe, nice lights! U see who the sponsor is? Sylvania!!!
Anyone knows where the company is from? Thats right BelGiuM!! And what town? hèhè They wer made in MY toWn!! :D :D

Is part of their treatment/punishment putting up and taking down the lights? Gah!

York wrote:

Hehe, nice lights! U see who the sponsor is? Sylvania!!!
Anyone knows where the company is from? Thats right BelGiuM!! And what town? hèhè They wer made in MY toWn!! :D :D

Naw, they were made in China like everything else. :lol:

really??? :yeldead: :( :worried: But why isnt Sylvania written in Chinese than? :D

The decorations here will be for tomorrow or later, still a sick baby here, so no time to put the tree together...

Too large to post here but these are some great shots of Quebec's Capitol.



http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2390416190067529258QSIQFO

LabRat wrote:

Is part of their treatment/punishment putting up and taking down the lights? Gah!

I think they make their maintenance/groundskeeping staff do that. If you make the patients/inmates do something on that order, even if it is "character building" it's peonage. Violates their civil rights or something.

A house i drove by today! It is still in progress ( only white lights), ladders standing there, cables ready but not plugged....
Its a known house this time a year! Sorry for the bad quality, its my cellphone and cardriving combined.... Ill drive by again in some time and post some new pics ...see how it evolved! ;) and colorful it got...

Some people get carried away with more is better. This guy did OK, without getting crazy. ;)

I was hoping to put some pics up here today...but the tree is not that nice...:redface: So my decoration is kinda "flauwtjes" (anyone got a dutch-english translation for that? :rolleyes: ) , like not enough..like the same colors allover,like booorring!! :neutral:
The tree is done, im gonna attach some light to my curtains tomorrow....
Maybe get a bit more X-mas mood in the place! It aint easy decorating with 2 beautiful vomitting women in the house! ;)

have a look anyway....

I got a whole roll of leftover evergreen garland from our church. Wrapped it all around the framing of our porch. Our house is a dump from the outside, so this doesn't really make it look nice, but it is a bit more festive now.

Festivities can be gooood sometimes! ;)

I'm not gonna promise anything, but I'll ferret around in my files and see if I can't dig up my photo of Hilary petting a reindeer at the zoo one christmas.

Wish I had a pic...but my ex sis-in-law lives in New Zealand, and comes home for Christmas each year a couple days before Christmas. So, a few years ago she and my ex dad-in-law (they are both still family to me, btw) started a tradition. They visit the tree places when she gets home and take the leftover branches, etc. Then they go home and she ties it together, creatively. It's always funny...and they have a great time. Good stuff.

There is a house in town whose residents hang their tree upside down, from the ceiling, for as many years as I've lived in this town. You can see it driving down Main St and it's a fun conversation piece for visitors.

It's too dark to take a good picture. I tried to get a picture of my cat snuggling up to the tinsel but he felt mocked and left.

hehe I found him in the tree garland.

Great picture! :)

reminds me of the cat scene in nat lampoon's christmas vacation.

Thanks! to both! lol

I just tweaked the adjustments. I wish you could post some of yours shawnee and I am waiting for that reindeer photo 3foots.

You say there are people who hang their tree upside down? Why do they do that?

skysidhe wrote:

You say there are people who hang their tree upside down? Why do they do that?

Well, there's not a whole race of these people that I know of ;) but I guess they do it because it's different, and creates a fun thing to talk about. I like it.

Or, maybe there is a whole race of people who believe the luck runs out if you hang it the other way...not sure. :p

Maybe it's easier to hang ornaments.? ;)

This could be true.

Suppose: there is a Christmas tree on a treadmill, and the ornaments are...

[COLOR="Gray"]never mind[/COLOR]

Oregon Truck Parade :eek3:

I love houses done in good taste. :D

Bruce, is that your house? It's beautiful (the decorations too, but I love the house!)

Just wait for tomorrow night when I finally get home from school for break and I'll show you some lights.. there's a guy in my neighborhood that goes nuts. Every limb and every branch of probably 7 big trees in his yard are covered in lights. Not to mention his driveway is lined, the entire house and windows outlined, last year he spread some flashing ones out on the lawn to create a river of lights under the snow. He rents a cherry picker every year to put up more and more lights. He's very comfortably into the tens of thousands of lights.
The man is sick.

Clodfobble wrote:

Bruce, is that your house? It's beautiful (the decorations too, but I love the house!)

Nope, don't do any Christmas decorations, anymore. ;)

Ours. Some of em', at least.

Got the camera's memory card working.. I guess if you reformat something enough times it will eventually cooperate.
I promised and now I deliver.. my neighbor down the street and his huge electric bill:

That's pretty cool. :thumb:

I had to get my kid over here to look! Great picture Bullitt! Seven trees.That's alot of lights! Beautiful.



[not my photo]

You can barely see some of the river of lights on the right side of the last picture.. maybe tomorrow night I'll take the truck over there so I can get a higher vantage point and get a good shot of them. And to give you another idea of how many lights are on these trees and the house.. they change to at least three different colors. So there are three different sets of different color lights on those trees.. and you only ever see one at a time.
I have large versions if anyone wants them, just PM me

edit: question why does my image get blurry when I try to make small 1-2 degree rotations in irfanview? I've never had this happen in a photo editing program.

Wow! That is some detailed tree-lighting!!

Yep, looks like he really put in an effort! Something you dont see over here!
What you do see, everywhere are those damn danggling Santa's on a ladder on every front wall on every house! :eek:
My girl aint big enough to understand Xmas , but she would think there are a 100000 Santa' s all just hanging out being 3 foot tall...:eek: :D

Makes me want to hack a robotic Santa.

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I think thats kinda creepy!! :eek: :D

Oh, we have a few lights outside, nothing much, just a line of the larger outdoor lights across the roof and one big wreath in the window.
We are getting a Santa that goes in the yard this week. I'll take a pic when we get em'.
Sorry my pics were not the best, kinda' rushed... still kinda' wobbly.
The robot Santa is freaky.

I guess this doesn't qualify as a decoration but it was in today's online Houston Chronicle.

The things we make our kids do!?!?

Yup. Nothin' says Xmas like thousands of tiny, psychedelically colored lights on every vertical surface of your property.

I know what you mean, something more tasteful is better.;)

And now for something completely different.

FSM lights

NICE!

Iggy wrote:

And now for something completely different.

FSM lights

This may be the light that attracts a new series of wise men to witness the birth of the new incarnation of the pastafarian noodliness. What gifts will they bring? I suggest parmesan, soy sauce and chilli oil.

:lol2:

Beer and a saber, yaaarrrrr!!!

Family pics from the weekend, but I have cropped them to show Town Hall Square, which is the centrepiece of Leicester's Christmas lights.

I posted in another thread that there was no nativity scene here - I was wrong. They obviously just hadn't finished the decorating when I last visited. Good for them.

If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll go back and take proper pictures of the decorations with OAPs and fat birds in the way.

BTW, the penguins behind Mum & Dad were rotating, to give the impression they were sliding down the pillar. Very cool. Mum said, "Oh look at the penguins!" and I said, "Where?!" honestly believing there were penguins trooping through the centre of Leicester. Sigh. My Dad got mileage out of that all weekend and kept pretending to see them. Probably drunk.

If you look closely at my cape you will see it is held together by a brooch. It's not clear in the photos but this is in the shape of a dog drinking from a toilet bowl, and was a present from a Dwellar. I have been asked about it 3 times this week already :)

Clearly a lot of both of them, in you

Mum keeps saying how much I look like her. Hmmmm. She's only started saying that since I got fat! Will have to see what she says this time next year :)

They look like happy people. :D

Great pics. Lovely area, I wanna' go to Europe.
[SIZE="1"]Look a penguin![/SIZE]:eek:

Where?!

If you listen carefully at the end of the film, when I am already filming the penguins - a mad foreign man says to me, "Look at the penguins, look at the penguins."

Me & penguins, I dunno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WICJIQ_lf-s

Bachelors. ;)

Ice storms raise hell with the decorations. :whofart:

Holland. ;)

our tree and the such ,

zippyt wrote:

our tree and the such ,

You got a boat load of presents! Do I see buddha hiding in there?

Actualy that is Saint Peter .

Which saint's peter? :unsure:

My Burst !!!
Saint Jude ,

These are Buddha ,

Not a pic, but cool anyway! ;)
http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/1132494076

@ Zippyt...yes, buddha even sits on my boyfriends desk and I still don't know what one looks like.:p Thanks :)

@Bruce...do you have the original link to that bachelor Christmas tree? I might use it for a desktop wallpaper.
I even like it much better than the fake one I got. This is the first time ever for a fake tree and since my son is out of town I am going to take it down because it has no life in it..obviously:greenface

Behold the most boring tree ever.


HAPPY MONKEY,,,YOUR TREE IS WONDERFUL!!! IT GLOWS

skysidhe wrote:

Bruce...do you have the original link to that bachelor Christmas tree? I might use it for a desktop wallpaper.

Yes. :D http://www.ehowa.com/picture.html?image=bachelorxmastree.jpg

Merry X-mas everyone!!

Sky, a real tree also has almost no life in it! It supposed to be outside in the ground, not in a warm house .... Trees arent made to put inside...;
If my Gf didnt convince me to put one because of the baby, i wouldnt have done it! There is so many decoration that a tree isnt even necessary...
The tree wasnt even in the real thing....(x-mas story i mean...)

Isn't a guy holding a bird usually St Francis of Asissi?

York wrote:

Merry X-mas everyone!!

Sky, a real tree also has almost no life in it! It supposed to be outside in the ground, not in a warm house .... Trees arent made to put inside...;
If my Gf didnt convince me to put one because of the baby, i wouldnt have done it! There is so many decoration that a tree isnt even necessary...
The tree wasnt even in the real thing....(x-mas story i mean...)

Yes but it gives off a nice pine scent....and in water it lives for a while. I think it is living because it drinks water. It's sounds cruel when you think about it...:sniff: poor little trees.

Yep thats right! Over here they put them in a bucket and as long as people give them water.... But most of the people get a cut one... And in the end its all thesame here.... Bucket or no bucket, on a certain date they just put them out for the garbage.... Thats even more cruel if u as k me!! First care for the poor tree, than put it with the garbage.... But than again , its all grown for this...Just like cows they raise to eat...

Anyway...thinks like that can make your mind work all day but wont change much sadely....

This is some nice feature i found in New York
http://www.yumlum.com/articles/294/1/

Much like minks, Christmas trees are farm raised for a specific purpose. The days in which kids trooped off into the woods with dad, a sled and a two-man saw are long since passed.

But also probably because Americans are too damn lazy these days.

You can, though, go to a tree farm where they let you pick out a tree and have someone else hack it down with a nice chainsaw for you. Customers can't be trusted with chainsaws, according to liability attorneys, who even make you stand well back lest you be crushed by Christmas Joy when the guy yells "Timber!" and you didn't listen.

There is a website out there, I don't have the link any longer, of dildos made out of religious icon... beautiful thing.

Jolly ole neon Nick

Bit late to the party but....

the tree

hard to see, but it had (I'm guestimating) approximately 300 miniature/small baubles on it (glass balls) -all different colours, but all plain. silver tinsel only, about 650 lights. Real tree of course. :D

Disappointed by the lack of pine scent this year -we got a blue spruce instead of a balsam fir. A mistake.

And here are the outside lights. Not very good pics, i'm afraid, but trust me, there are in the region of 5000 lights up -and another 1000ish on the deck round the back. :D :D

You can tell I'm an atheist, can't you! :lol:

Thanks monster, that tree looks just like the trees we had when I was a kid. :D

Nice lens flares in that first tree photo. Very pretty.