[operation clinton cleanup]

hang a large amount of lights throughout my house (floor to ceiling) this time of year. It's the only tape out there that doesn't peel paint and wallpaper when you remove it. And my kids and I hang over 150 strings of lights (no kidding).

Awesome! You are a great American!

[SamAdams76]

Maybe I'll get around to posting some pictures of the inside of my house after I'm done. There are many eccentrics who go "Chevy Chase" decorating the OUTSIDE of their home. I think that's fine and I love driving by those homes at Christmastime. But I focus on the inside of my house. I rationalize that I go through all this work so that my family and I can enjoy this without having to go out in the cold.

So what we do is we cover every common room in white lights from floor to ceiling. I run lights all around the baseboard, the windows, doorways and then along the ceilings. We then put mult-colored lights in the bedrooms and bathrooms.

It is such light that from Thanksgiving to Super Bowl Sunday (the weekend that I take them all down), that you don't need to turn on a single overhead light or lamp in the house. This helps offset the electricity bill.

It also enables us to spread out the Christmas season and it gets us through the darkest days of the year in good cheer. No light deprivation depression in this household!