Do you decorate the outside of your house?!

[userno53627]

Exactly that really. Do you decorate the outside of your house for Christmas?

When I was growing, it felt like hardly anyone did. Maybe one or two and they would be famous for it and you'd drive around to have a look. It seems to have become increasingly popular which is great - dc love the lights.

Last year most houses on our street decorated outside and a fair few in the village. Some have gone all out and others more subtle.

I felt a right Scrooge because we've never really bothered with the outside - only indoors.

Am I really a Scrooge?

I just don't have the patience to sort it out - or the money!

Where do people store outside lights all winter in small houses with bit garage?

I have to say I enjoy seeing lights start popping up from 1 December. It feels like quite a primal urge to want to share light at the darkest time of the year.

Yeah, I think so too.

@Sparklingbrook

Nothing outside, minimal inside.

I don't really get doing the outside as you can't actually see it when you're at home.

But it feels so homely and welcoming coming in from the dark nights.

It's endlessly disheartening coming across people diminishing or demeaning other people when they are simply behaving within the law but not to your aesthetic, and I especially dislike people who do this from the safety of their anonymous internet chair. They are without grace and are underserving of respect.

@nosuchluck25

Hell no it's tacky!

It may look tacky on your house …..

Many houses don’t need Christmas decorations to look tacky 😂

We live in a rural village with no street lights.

Dec 10th - Jan 10th I put our gable lights on. They're static white icicle lights, pretty inoffensive and a welcome relief from the winter gloom. No-one has ever complained.

And a wreath on the front door.

We have tasteful lights 😀

My house used to look like Blackpool illuminations outside whilst my boys grew up until I moved to a conservation area. I was gutted to learn outside lights are not permitted.

My granny always did, we don't, mostly because of money.

White twinkly lights on the porch, white lights on the inside of the front window and white paper stars and snowflakes thinly strung on the inside of the window so it looks pretty from outside.

@dudsville

It's endlessly disheartening coming across people diminishing or demeaning other people when they are simply behaving within the law but not to your aesthetic, and I especially dislike people who do this from the safety of their anonymous internet chair. They are without grace and are underserving of respect.

Brace yourself for November and December on Mumsnet.

Soon it will be the people who put their trees up too early, and then it will be those who take them down too soon. Then it will be those who do 'elf on the shelf', and if we get some really niche content this year we'll get criticism of those who teach their children to be compulsive liars by introducing the concept of Father Christmas (and don't forget that any child past the age of five who still believes is Displaying A Worrying Lack of Critical Thinking Skills). Then those who buy too much for their children, and those who buy too little - and that's all before we get started on fireworks at New Year.

Merry Christmas!

Yes, we do now because of dd otherwise I wouldn't bother.

We still have half a scarecrow lying in the front garden leftover from the scarecrow competition in our town 😂😂😂 it was Dorothy from the wizard of oz.
Lights, Snowmen, Santa and outside trees will go up after dd's birthday at the beginning of December

we'll get criticism of those who teach their children to be compulsive liars by introducing the concept of Father Christmas

I love those ones.

@headlock - a projector?! No consideration for neighbours who don't want strobe lighting or indeed people who have health issues that could be set off by this. Epilepsy, TIAs etc.

@dudsville

It's endlessly disheartening coming across people diminishing or demeaning other people when they are simply behaving within the law but not to your aesthetic, and I especially dislike people who do this from the safety of their anonymous internet chair. They are without grace and are underserving of respect.

I agree. And the use of the word tacky is just so disappointing. Really judgemental and condescending.

A Santa stop here sign in one window and a curtain of lights on another, on the inside. I love walking past houses all lit up and taking my DS to see them as well

I believe Christmas should be tack and the over the top so I want to see all the multi coloured lights and inflatable Santa's 🎅🏻

Tacky*

Nope, some bugger would steal stuff from outside. I put glow in the dark pebbles out the front and they got taken, ones in back are set in concrete so still there.

But it feels so homely and welcoming coming in from the dark nights

I see what you mean but that's once a day generally. Other than that you are in the house and can't see them.

Fresh wreath on the front door, that’s it.

I'm a Scrooge. I don't want to pay for other people to see a nice light display outside when I have my own lovely display indoors. I'm happy to look at other peoples though 😁

I've just been up to close the curtains and I can report that someone in the street has a Christmas tree with lights on outside their house already.

@Sparklingbrook

I've just been up to close the curtains and I can report that someone in the street has a Christmas tree with lights on outside their house already.

BINGO

@AuntieMarys

We have tasteful lights 😀

Same here

However... blue flashing lights are NOT tasteful. Ever.

I put up a wreath on the door, some twinkly waterfall lights in the window and some gold stars in the top window. All from home bargains and cost me less than £30, I keep them in a box under the bed with the rest of the baubles lol.

I never used to bother but I feel very festive now I do, kids enjoy it too.