[King of Florida]

The King decrees that these are the tackiest of the tacky! White lights are sufficient for the kingdom.

[ken5050]

I can FedEx you some snow...

[ShadowDancer]

God, I HATE those things.

[rlmorel]

I saw a really funny one the other day...the santa had deflated somewhat, and was bent forward with his face on the lower half of a somewhat deflated elf!

It was kind of perverted looking!

[Hatteras]

Neighbors across the street have a 12ft. high Santa standing amongst multiple "relatively" smaller balloon figures. Santa reaches their second story windows. Neighbors to the right have 3 six foot figures, Santa, a penguin and Winnie-the-Pooh. During the daytime, the cul-de-sac looks like trailertrash heaven with all these large deflated pieces of plastic laying around.

I'm not much of a fan of these things but at the same time, there's a very up-scale neighborhood around the corner and every house, and I mean EVERY house is decorated in white lights. It's not gaudy by any means but it sure lacks a little color as the dog and I stroll through on our late evening walks.

Also, we seem to be experiencing the same population control problems with those white animated deer that we have with the real things...

[Hatteras]

We have one fellow in the area that creates over-sized ornaments (2ft+) with christmas lights and hangs them from his two very large trees out front. Every year I have always been impressed because it's simple (as in "not tacky") and it's original. Each year he adds a few more. This year however, he has taken the leap into tackyville. He now has a large banner out front that says "Tree of Lights - Sponsored by So-and-So's Automotive Service and there are boxes at the curb with flyers for discount brake jobs and all your automotive needs.

[Cagey]

The really crass decorations are the ones that require an electric blower to keep them inflated. Usually, the homeowners inflate and illuminate them at night and for some unknown reason they pull the plug during daylight hours.

Some front lawns resemble a surreal North Pole battlefield.

[Xenalyte]

I love white lights - especially the very small ones. It looks like stars cover the house!

A home a couple blocks away from us has all blue and green lights. It looks like they're trying to signal the UFO where to land.

I also gotta say I hate the inflatables. They're weird and noisy and not Christmassy.

[CharlesWayneCT]

No blow-up dolls for me. But I do use colored lights:

See more at Christmas Lights 2006, I blog about them at Deck the halls and gutters and trees etc.