I love driving around on Christmas Eve & looking at everyone’s decorations - some of them are just WAY too much & take away from the aesthetics of it. I like decorations that have a theme and are tasteful.
No way would I want to live on the same street as one of these “over the top” decorators!
We had one on our street when we were in MD. Best one in that end of the county and it got a fair amount of traffic.
Being rural, each side of the road had drainage ditches. Unless you had a really big truck, if you dropped a wheel in one, you could not get out without a tow truck.
Espcially if it snowed, there would be one or two drivers foolish enough to try and turn around in the street rather than drive to the cul-de-sac. I came to the conclusion that it was not so much a holiday display but a stealthy income generator for tow trucks.
We drive twenty miles to see decorations around Christmas. I can see some problems. And what this means is that by the time the decoration police are done, there will be no Christmas decorations.
What I generally see is communites (very localized, say a neighborhood) join together to produce a great little oasis in the night. I love that they do this. It makes Christmas very special. Naturally, I don’t want that to impact neighbors negatively, but then I wonder what the true motives of those neighbors are?
Is the display truly that bad, or are the neighbors against the idea of celebrating Christmas at all?
Frankly, if someone made a great big display in my neighborhood, I’d be happy to enjoy it. And if I had to pick up trash off my lawn in the process, or put up with some traffic in the process, I’d take it in stride.
It used to be that the public square was the real focus. And now it’s quite clear what’s up IMO, and it doesn’t have to do with inconvenience as much as those who hate Christmas.
And hating Christmas as they do, those who cherish it will have to accept it being destroyed.
Over the top with everything seems to be the trend these days, not just with exterior Christmas decorations. Remember as a kid - a long, long time ago - we would go out on Christmas Eve to see the holiday decorations. Nothing much was over the top then.