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Christmas decorations 7.5k

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Cleo888 · 11/09/2023 20:14

Hello,

I would like a honest opinion do these pricing look fair or they are taking me for a mug. I thought we would hire a Christmas decorators to decorate our home thinking it would be practical to have a company set it up and take it down.
The final pricing remains the same whether you keep the decorations for 2 weeks or 2 months. The contract will be for 2-4 years the final price is payable every year.

Staircase garlands £1100
Outside doorway garland £550
Kitchen garland for above cupboards £550
Inside lights for glass (both areas) £1700
Living room fireplace garland £275
Inside 8ft tree , fully lit and decorated £950
Drive lights for pathway£180
Icicle lights for roofline and top windows £420
Access equipment to install lights and take them down £500
Total price £6225
Plus vat @£1245

FINISHED PRICE £7470Confused

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NDWifeandMan · 21/09/2023 20:58

GlomOfNit · 14/09/2023 08:43

I had NO IDEA that 'ordinary people' (eg not the mega-rich, not politicians who have to live semi-public lives and entertain at home for diplomatic reasons, not Insta-mad footballers/and their spouses) even considered contracting out to decorate their houses for Christmas. That it even occurred to you, OP, strikes me as quite sad. Sad

You know it's not compulsory to decorate, right? If it's all such a chore that you feel you have to pay someone else to do it, just don't decorate! Decorating your tree/house is meant to be fun and enjoyable, you're meant to keep favourite decorations and get a warm buzz from bringing them out year after year - and if you can't stomach that, then you pour yourself a glass and ask your teenaged kids to! Grin I don't think I know anyone who would ever pay a professional decorator to sort this out.

And if you live in the same sort of modest house that most of us live in (as you said) rather than a mega-mansion, it's going to look a little pathetic, all that stuff lavished on a 4 bed semi. What are you trying to prove?

Decorating is a service like any other but you're attaching so much emotion to the process as opposed to the outcome. OP's list is a bit OTT but consider the below...

DH and I would both like our house to look nice for Christmas. Unfortunately, because we're both neurodiverse and have terrible executive functioning (not to mention fine motor skills) even putting up decorations on a tree takes hours and doesn't look great.

Many people also want their homes to look nice when hosting, visitors may also have expectations so 'don't decorate' isn't an option.

This year we're getting someone to come and do the tree as well as hang a few things up. £20. There are plenty offering to do it on our local FB page and lots of interest. We're in a low-middle income area so definitely ordinary people.

Money well spent IMO.

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