Christmas decorations 7.5k

[Cleo888]

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 £7470

@Aerin1999 obviously me 🙄

I went into B&M today for a new bath mat. I can report that their Christmas decorations are in!
I may have bought some

Absolutely insane. I'd rather make snowmen out of Rudolph's feces and hang razor wire instead garlands for that sodding price. Get yourself down to Home Bargains.

Wow what a lot of money.

My sil and bil did this for halloween one year. They are deeply in debt as it turns out.

Wow, I think we're living in different worlds OP,
If you can afford it, go for it!
We always argue in our house putting the tree up and taking it down!

I won't read further because I don't want my hopes dashed of someone having a really, really fancy Christmas decoration set up....

All that would look totally ridiculous on a bog standard house. If you had the type of house that could pull it off I would just go for the front door garland and the fireplace garland. £550 for a professional garland for the front door is pretty reasonable. Think - a bride’s bouquet would be about £300 nowadays and you would have a team of people constructing it and you could leave it up for all of December and first week of January. Only the super wealthy (flashy wealthy not posh wealthy) would dream of spending 7k on Christmas decorations that you don’t even get to keep.

like anything else - get a couple more quotes. Then you’ll have your eye in on market standards / will be able to negotiate sensibly if you want to

Do you have children op? My sons friends mother had someone come in and decorate her house/tree quite beautifully. I commented/complimented the tree while at their front door. Her son quite emphatically said…yea it doesn’t count my mom didn’t even do it and the angel belongs on the top. He was about 12 but recognized authenticity. Here’s my less is more tree..

my less is more tree (second try to post)

😂

I've no idea about what these things cost. I've only seen professional decorations in my old workplace and hotels.

I despise putting up decorations (and taking them down) so if money is no object why not?

I am guessing that signing a four year contract means the annual charge is reduced so the fee for one year is more like 9K without a contract?

😂

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Errr I was offered Crackhead Tom first.

A Crackhead Tom is for life, not just for Christmas - you can have him for Valentines Day.

I will do it for half that amount, Lol

It is a reasonable cost when you consider the costs for the business. Whether it is good value depends on your needs...

• Purchase the premium Christmas decorations on an ongoing basis for fashion changes and replace broken, damaged, dirty decs
• Staff cost for setting up
• Staff cost for taking down
• Transport of items both times
• Hire/purchase of ladders etc. Indoors and out
• Year round storage when not in use
• Cleaning and maintaining the decs
• Insurances
• Business costs for management of the above, PR, advertising, training and development, including health and safety, working at height.

And that's just what I can think of now.

Those balking at the price need to get real.

Fifteen hundred for DP and I'll throw the cat wearing a Christmas hat in for free.

I’ll do it for 5k ❤️🎄🎅

You’ve got to be joking. Do the decorations yourself. If you have this kind of money to burn, give it to a Christmas charity.

Ho Ho Ho

You must be absolutely loaded/ stark raving bonkers. Oh, and just to add- given that Christmas is about celebrating the birth of Jesus, maybe a better use of that money would be to donate to a charity for children/adults with nothing. I can barely believe the OP is for real, and am genuinely shocked.

Continue with mad indulgent decorations, or....
Dial it down (Christmas is only one day) and donate the remainder to a food bank for people who really need it.

This is a spoof, right??

Goodness I am clearly in the wrong job - next venture - Christmas Decoration Decorator 😉

You have money to burn 🙄 Lucky you
Pity you’re so obsessed with Christmas. How about do half of that excessive decorating and donate the rest of the money to a good cause. ( hopes)

Where are you based?

As a pp has said, this is a business/high end consumer service. The target market isn’t a normal home. The prices are inline with catalogues I have been shown at the company I work for. The idea is no effort/safe installation and removal/a new look every year. To be honest, even for businesses I find it a bit of a distasteful use of money.