[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...

[King of Florida]

That's the thing -- even if you have a bazillion lights on your house, you don't really notice anything during the day. But with these airblowns, it looks like the garbage men were drunk and left big pieces of trash on the lawn.

I've always liked colored lights -- I suppose because that's what I grew up with -- but my wife convinced me that all white lights were the way to go -- even on the tree (and silver and gold ornaments only!). It probably does look the most elegant, but I may have to convince her that our kids will find all of this a lot more appealing if it's colorful.

[Mo1]

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.

Gotta have the color lights .. and being gaudy to a point is ok .. it's Christmas time and the kids love the color

There is house a few blocks away from me that is decorated like a real Gingerbread House - Very kewl looking

But this many blow ups is just a tad too much