Christmas Lights.... Doyou do it?

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I have just watched the Living Room. It looks so expensive and competitive.
We have a mate that has bought a house in the street that has won the Christmas Lights competition for three years running.
Talk about under pressure LOL

[latina4621]

we put up a few lights out the front but not to the extent where go into competition

also we would not be game to have things on the ground in the front yard you could guarantee it would not be there in the morning stolen and you may find them busted up down the street.

[flashie*]

We have in the past..............BIG TIME.

But we do not enter competitions.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

Oops sorry, it really isn't about the competition. We live in a tiny town.
I should perhaps have said expectation.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Some of mine got stolen last year.

[flashie*]

We were really lucky...................I think in over 15 years we only had a few things stolen.

But we did have an upset a few Christmases ago with some stupid people ringing up and making all sorts of accustions and trouble over the lights................enough to make us reconsider if it was all worth it.

[belindabargainhunter]

I am one of those people who don't like to waste the electricity ( each to there own though I do enjoy looking at other people's houses all lit up )
My daughter loves the lights so we have solar fairy lights and put up candy cane signs Santa stop here and use tinsel and the big plastic pictures. Each year I add a couple of things but its all cheap and keeps the kids happy.

[debra9275]

we always have icicle lights hanging around the verandah and on the carport, when the kids were younger I had one of those deer in the garden and lights on the windows. I have some fairy lights in a tree but the tree grew and I kind of lost them in there 

Belinda, if you don't mind me asking, where did you find your solar fairy lights? and are they coloured ones?, I'd like to put them on some trees in the garden but so far I've only found clear light icicle ones

[soul_art]

Aldi had heaps of solar and non solar lights a couple of weeks ago Debra, don't know if they'd have any now though.  Picked up a couple of buckets of the colour changing ones.

I did see them in a Bunnings cat alogue last week, might be worth a look?

We have some butterfly ones that have been on the pool fence for a couple of years now, I love all that stuff lol  Bought some colour changing balls that float in the pool, too.  The lights look really good here as it's so dark at night, not having street lights or houses around.

[debra9275]

ah thanks Soul we have both an Aldi and a Bunnings nearby. I might try Masters too. I've really only looked in The Reject shop so far. I like the idea of the solar ones and I'd leave  them in the trees all year. I will go searching tomorrow hopefully