So what lights and decorations do you and your neighbours have on the OUTSIDE of your house?

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I don't have any.
On my left my neighoburs have - on the garage roof a metal santa in a sleigh with 3 reindeers, all of which light up. This is surrounded by blue fflashing lights that make it look like there is a police car outside the boys bedroom windown until midnight. They have a snowman on the porch roof along with 3 strings of white lights and round the poles on the porch are multi coloured lights, and on the front a big light up Merry Christmas sign. Round the back they have tree lights and a prjection thing with a big picture of Santa.

To my right we have a 12 foot inflatable snowman on the garage roof, tethered down partly on my side! He is accompanined by a flashing reindeer and a mvoing santa which lights up. Again we have blue flashing lights similar to a police car parked outside. There is then white flashing lights across the fornt of their garage and across their porch and then strung across and tethered to the garage wall on their other side. There is a large inflatable snowglobe type thing with snowmen inside. All their fir trees, bushes and planst are strung with flashing red lights. There is a big santa on the porch roof and a 10 ft high Homer Simpson dressed as santa up there as well.
The neighbours either think I'm a tight fisted Scot who doesn't want to pay for the electric or I'm boring

red lights across the front. Neighbours are missing our blue ones from last year, but they died.

About half the street have displays similar to your neighbours, one person down the road has built an entire santas grotto in their front garden. We have a simple tree and some stars in the window (inside).

I think we are viewed as a bit boring because we don't have a giant inflatable Homer Simpson dressed in a santa outfit on our drive like most people!

I have to say I detest the blue lights that seem to be so in fashion the past few years, they are not in the least bit "christmassy" - apologies to anyone who has them, they remind me of emergency services vehicles too

I do have some lights at the DSes bedroom window!

We live on a square surrounded by townhouses, all the houses have outside stairs going up to the front door and no front garden so most people just do a door wreath and white lights up the bannisters. Roof is 4storeys up so nobody sticks anything on the roof.

oh you won't like my blue led lights hung out the front and the 4 blue led sticks ? with baubles on then

Over the road we have a train lot's of lights a huge santa and 3 singing/dancing santas.

Next tot ehm they have lights , tree and reindeers

and so on !!!

How can you put an apostrophe in "LOTS"?

Like this lot's

I was thinking last night as I drove home,'I wonder why blue lights came into such vogue'..I dont mind them per se but blue isnt all that festive a colour is it.

We have a sort of star made from twigs which I have put lots of white lights around and hung from our hanging basket bracket at the front door.I consider it to look tasteful in a sort of Country Living Christmas issue sort of way.
DH thinks it looks satanic and the Star 'reminds him of the bundles of twigs in the Blair Witch Project'.We have agreed to disagree.

Our neighbours have got a MASSIVE,(it must be 9 foot from hoof to top of antler)inflatable Rudolph grazing on their front lawn.Except is is kind of kept inflated by a fan that only comes on intermitently.In between times it looks a bit saggy and deflated and like it would like to give up.I dont blame it

I'm sure they look lovely Lily

Also DD1 and I made a big Christmas tree shape out of green card which we stuck to the French Doors.She made baubles out of card stuck with glitter and bits of coloured tissue in balls and we stuck tinsel on it with tape.Its quite jolly and with the added advantage that it kept her occupied for 4 hours one afternoon Can thoroughly reccomend!

Maybe they are meant to represent Ice?
Those 2 are the only houses in our street which are done up like that.

I have twinkly lights just on my porch, over my front door. All my neighbours have tastedful lights, except for the lady that lives opposite me who has all manner of hideous lights and Father Christmas things going on in her windows.

tasteful

None.
DS would love us to have some in the style of your neighbours.

Wreath on front door

That's it.

Immediate neighbours have nothing so far, no idea about others on the road (not easy to see their front doors as we are all set back quite far from the road).

PinkJenny-admit it-your lights are fluoro pink and feature a life size statue of him out of One Tree hill dressed in Christmas garb, picked out in twinkly bulbs!
I know it!

House opposite has a luminous santa and sleigh plus an enormous garland of blue flashing lights. Can be seen from the end of the road and probably from the moon.

Berry wreath, multicoloured lights on the potted conifer by the front door.

Very tasteful

Neighbours all have similar or none. No huge santas or reindeers here.

mine a v v v tasteful, i have white flashing icicles in living room window, and a big holly berry and leaves garland round the front door with white static lights in it. looks lovely. inside of the house isnt quite so tasteful though

Oh dahling, I am a mass of contradictions, my house is very tasteful, I can assure you.

Maybe all these blue flashing lights are a co-ordinated effort to send a message to any aliens thinking of landing here.

We (will, in another week) have some gold lights in the bush by the front door. Wreath on door, another one on the gate. Nowt else, but I put gold lights on suckers round the front window, indoors.

There is a mad person in the village who adds to his collection of OTT lights every year, and has a strange fixation with bicycles... he has, as of last year, about 8 santas riding penny farthings and bikes round his garden!

None at all.

None on ours (dh also subscribes to the Blair Witch Project theory on wreathes and I can't be arsed to argue)

Over the road has white lights on some trees which looks very pretty.

I don't like blue lights.

We have white static lights on bushes under front window - the window is a bay and raised up from a sloping lawn because we are on a slight hill. Also wreath next to front door in recess because front door is metal. Next door have viscious flashing blue lights along top of garage. Other houses have white lights, some on garages, some on trees.