Decorations of Horror

I love the holidays, but there is something about them that I hate.  I loathe tacky lawn decorations.  Basically, I hate any decoration on a lawn that spins, plays music, smiles, or requires air.  Every single holiday, the same people in the neighborhood decorate their lawns with stupid Santas and reindeer, giant cats, enormous pumpkins, giant bunny rabbits and Easter eggs.  Unfortunately, they are also the ones who use an obscene amount of lights.  After Thanksgiving, one lady in our neighborhood inflates about 4 things, including my favorite……a giant carousel for elves.  It’s so stupid.  She will also use 500,000 twinkle lights, some will be colored and some will be white.  Some will blink and some will not.  It is beyond hideous.  I actually take the alternate route to my house just to avoid seeing it. 

Is this snobby?  Probably, but I can’t help it.  My parents’ taste rubbed off on me and I just don’t like this stuff.  Thank goodness.  What’s wrong with a nice wreath or a few strings of lights?  Why waste our planet’s energy and make the street tacky?  We have a homeowner’s association that fines us if we leave our trash can at the curb for more than a day, but they allow people to decorate with so many blow-ups that you can’t even see the grass?  I don’t get it.  I thought that having an HOA meant that we were trying to avoid tacky and annoying behaviors and habits.

I went to Lowe’s a couple of days ago to get some screws for a table leg and I took Carson and Dylan down the decoration aisle for fun.  (They saw the aisle on the way in and I promised that we would take a gander if they were good.  They were angels.)  They swooned over the giant Christmas stuff displayed on the top shelf, which I had expected.  I guess when people choose to seasonally tack-it-up in their yard, it’s all for the kids.  As awful as it may be, the kids enjoy it.  I will try to accept it for that reason alone.  It’ll never be my lawn though…..I promise you that.

Ok, so these pictures are way worse than the houses in my neighborhood, but they are so funny. 

REALLY??????  The show "Hoarders" comes to mind when I see this.

I wanna see your power bill for December, dude.

Homer Simpson in a Santa suit is the worst part of it all.

Why bother with the two wreaths in the middle of the house?   

Here's the Word of the Day:

berserk \ber-SURK\, adjective:

1. Violently or destructively frenzied; wild; crazed; deranged.

noun:
1. Scandinavian legend. An ancient Norse warrior who fought with frenzied rage in battle, possibly induced by eating hallucinogenic mushrooms.