I Live in an Amusement Park

[McKenna]

MY GOD! Enough with the Christmas Decorations!

Suburbia has become hell. Blow up dolls on the front lawn, lights on every single inch of house, tree, and driveway. Enough! Enough, I tell ya!

 

[3113]

MY GOD! Enough with the Christmas Decorations!

Suburbia has become hell. Blow up dolls on the front lawn, lights on every single inch of house, tree, and driveway. Enough! Enough, I tell ya!

I propose a contest--right here in this thread. To everyone and anyone reading this:

Post a picture of the most ridiculously decorated house in your neighborhood!

Yep. Post it right here, in our own, AH Holiday Amusement Park.

Which ever home we deem the most absurd and overdone, the one we mock the most mercilessly, wins

 

[McKenna]

I propose a contest--right here in this thread. To everyone and anyone reading this:

Post a picture of the most ridiculously decorated house in your neighborhood!

Yep. Post it right here, in our own, AH Holiday Amusement Park.

Which ever home we deem the most absurd and overdone, the one we mock the most mercilessly, wins

Ohhhhh, what a great idea!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I Live in an Amusement Park

MY GOD! Enough with the Christmas Decorations!

Suburbia has become hell. Blow up dolls on the front lawn, lights on every single inch of house, tree, and driveway. Enough! Enough, I tell ya!

Let's compare notes. I live in a nut house filled with unopened boxes that read "United Van Lines".

Being new to this neighborhood, I am sadly lacking in photos of nearby houses with ridiculous Christmas decorations. However, for those interested in the subject, I suggest you check out:

The Ultimate Users Guide to Tacky Christmas Decorations

Rumple Foreskin

ps: That reminds me it's past time I posted my sacred seasonal AV. rf

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'd need a video camera to show you my neighbor's BLINKING set of lights-in-the-shape-of-a-cone. They blink in different lights all the time, and it looks like there's been an accident over there. Right next to them, we have the giant snowman made out of transparent tubes filled with christmas lights. *shudder*

 

[rgraham666]

Don't have many people decorating here yet. My neighbour across the street has but she's done it tastefully.

There is someone about one hundred metres south of me who's tripling their electricity bill this month.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Those giant blow up dolls are riduculous, but I love the houses with lots of lights. The most decorated one imy neighborhood has a lot of lights, and lighted reindeers and stuff, it's a bit amusement parky, but nowhere near freak show or Budweiser commercial territory.

 

[TxRad]

Most around here never take em down so they don't have to put em back up.....

Also they make good marker lights to where someone actually lives.....

 

[arienette]

I doubt I'll be going to see it, but we have this house around here that is widely known for it Halloween and Christmas decorations. It's a cop's house with an alley that is fully decorated and during the seasons they actually have the road seperated into two lanes, one for regular traffic and the other for the "Holiday House". It's ridiculous!

 

[elsol]

Am I the only pervert?

"Blow up dolls on the front lawn"

Seriously!

And I thought suburbia was all worried about teenage's boys innocence... I'd watched out for blow up dolls that are a little flatter the next morning.

 

[McKenna]

I trolled the neighborhood tonight looking for contestants. I hope to have photos soon.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Am I the only pervert?

"Blow up dolls on the front lawn"

Seriously!

And I thought suburbia was all worried about teenage's boys innocence... I'd watched out for blow up dolls that are a little flatter the next morning.

It's when the blow up sheep come out that you should get worried.

http://funideas.com/images/products/adults/partysheep.jpg​

 

[cloudy]

The people across the street have a lavish display, which has spawned all kinds of decoration jealousy in my 6-year-old.

 

[McKenna]

The people across the street have a lavish display, which has spawned all kinds of decoration jealousy in my 6-year-old.

My mom used to let us put up Christmas lights in our bedroom. I think that cured our decoration jealousy.

 

[yui]

People have, like, snowglobes in their yards. I don't know if I'm appalled or envious.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

People have, like, snowglobes in their yards. I don't know if I'm appalled or envious.

Someone up the street from me has two of the giant snowglobes, one giant santa blow up and a giant blow up snowman in their yard. The trouble is, they only turn them on at night when the lights are on, (they all light up) so during the day the yard is covered with big lumpy mounds of plastic. Yeah, that's festive.

 

[cloudy]

My mom used to let us put up Christmas lights in our bedroom. I think that cured our decoration jealousy.

good idea!

People have, like, snowglobes in their yards. I don't know if I'm appalled or envious.

yep, neighbor has one of those, too.

 

[starrkers]

Don't really know why we bother with Christmas lights - by the time it's dark enough to see them it's around 10pm and the kids are too tired to care.

Used to live near a place that went ape with the Christmas lights thing. The house was called "Gracelands" and they needed police on traffic duty around it.

 

[McKenna]

People have, like, snowglobes in their yards. I don't know if I'm appalled or envious.

One of the blow up thingies I saw tonight was a carousel, complete with moving horses, all encased in plastic. "Look, but don't touch!" If you ask me, that's torture for children!

 

[McKenna]

Don't really know why we bother with Christmas lights - by the time it's dark enough to see them it's around 10pm and the kids are too tired to care.

Used to live near a place that went ape with the Christmas lights thing. The house was called "Gracelands" and they needed police on traffic duty around it.

Oh no. It's not just an American phenomena?!

 

[Saucyminx]

i'm so embarrassed. My husband does our house with the blow up stuff and the lights. I seem to have lost control of the situation in the past few years somehow. It started with a couple lights and then whammo. Lighted moving deer arrived, a blow up frosty, more lights, large mutant candy canes. It just sort of snowballed.(He hasn't done it yet) When he does perpetrate this monstrosity , i will be humming "Leaving Las Vegas" every time i leave the house until he takes it all down again. Bah Humbug.

 

[McKenna]

i'm so embarrassed. My husband does our house with the blow up stuff and the lights. I seem to have lost control of the situation in the past few years somehow. It started with a couple lights and then whammo. Lighted moving deer arrived, a blow up frosty, more lights, large mutant candy canes. It just sort of snowballed.(He hasn't done it yet) When he does perpetrate this monstrosity , i will be humming "Leaving Las Vegas" every time i leave the house until he takes it all down again. Bah Humbug.

Take pictures! You may just win the contest.

 

[starrkers]

Oh no. It's not just an American phenomena?!

Nope. Here's the evidence - and they don't do it justice - the "icicles" aren't showing clearly.
Yes, that is an icecream truck in the foreground.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/grace7.jpg

This one has the evidence of why I was there - that small person is my son, several years ago.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/grace1.jpg

 

[McKenna]

Folks, we have our first contestants! Thanks for the submission, Starrkers!

Nope. Here's the evidence - and they don't do it justice - the "icicles" aren't showing clearly.
Yes, that is an icecream truck in the foreground.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/grace7.jpg

This one has the evidence of why I was there - that small person is my son, several years ago.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/starrcats/grace1.jpg

 

[starrkers]

The damn place is clearly visible from about three blocks away and the traffic jams literally go for miles.