We all feel the peer pressure to decorate for the holidays and to put out our best beat-your-neighbor lights and animatronic reindeer. Pretty soon our yards look like winter wonderland exploded and we still do even more the next year.
I say, why bow down to decorating peer pressure? Go the opposite way, and see just how mad you can make your neighbors. This may just make it a decorating season they will never forget. Here are a few (not so) serious ways to annoy your neighbors. (Don’t try these at home, kiddies.)
1. Put up Halloween decorations: Red-nosed reindeer are so cliché. Why not bring Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” to life by bringing the scary? Orange lights and blacks go great with a few inches of snow. Make some of those tombstones say “Here Lies Rudolph: It’s better to burn bright than to fade away” or “R.I.P. Frosty: Next time, don’t materialize in California.” You’ll get a huge laugh as the cars stop and look at your macabre tribute to the holidays.
2. Be seen from space: Everyone likes to go a little overboard on the light displays, but why not let the International Space Station use your home as a beacon? Your neighbors will not be applauding your Christmas spirit when their living room looks like noon at 10 p.m. Better yet, set the whole thing to music, so that everything flashes to the beat. Your neighbors will come out to see the electric sun you created as it flickers to “Silent Night.”
3. Blow up EVERYTHING: I have, on more than one occasion, decried my hatred of outdoor blow-up decorations, so if you want me to hate your house, then put about 15 of them in the front lawn. Buy up very style they have in stock and turn your front yard into a carnival of holiday horror. Frosty and Rudolph turning on a carousel or Santa Claus in a giant snow globe. You can’t really go wrong with a blow-up decoration. Why not mix it up and put some of those Halloween and Thanksgiving ones out there, too.
4. Music, music, music: Nothing says Christmas like “Deck the Halls” blaring from five speakers on your front porch. You can rattle with windows and set off car alarms, all while celebrating Christmas. Your neighbors will want everyone to know about your Christmas spirit, especially the police (and possibly even a lawyer or two).
5. Decorations? What decorations? If you really want to annoy all your neighbors, then just skip all the decorations this year. When the homeowners association or neighborhood leg-breakers come to your house and wonder why Frosty isn’t adorning your roof this year, just tell them you’ve got mono and can’t leave the house. If that doesn’t work, then say you are boycotting the commercialization of Christmas, and then come home with lots of shopping bags.
These are guaranteed to get you noticed in the neighborhood — and to get you put on Santa’s naughty list.
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