...my standard neighborhood-issue Frosty? Does it seem weird that EVERYONE has a snowman on their roof? Must be some damn HOA thing!
And I wish I could get Christmas tree home delivery! Don't have to drive and haul it myself, already picked out for me...for 90 bucks it may be worth it. Guess I'm in the wrong neighborhood...!
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Why are children obese? Maybe because burgers are $0.99 and salads are $4.99
There is a neighborhood in Houston (Prestonwood) that decorates each year. Each street is decorated in a different theme. When a house is sold, the decorations stay with the house. If a house is vacant, the neighbors decorate that house also using the decorations for that house.
I'm sure there are neighborhoods like that in other cities also but having lived in Houston for almost 30 years, I remember going through that neighborhood every Christmas. It got so big that they had to start having police driect traffic.
I feel for the people who live there. They have to be home by 6 or so and hopefully they won't need to leave the rest of the night. I would hate to fight that traffic just to get to my house every night for a month or so.
My neighborhood did this growing up and as a kid I don't remember the rules but after reading what you wrote I do remember my parents talking about us having to be home to turn our lights on. I also remember now the line of cars.
I also now remember us driving around to look at other neighborhood lights. I remember feeling disappointed that other neighborhoods didn't go all out as we did.
When we moved when I was 13 we took our decorations but we rarely used them. My mom sold them at a yard sale later saying she was glad to see them go. Lol I was so mad at her.
A friend of mine got in an accident while driving past a house that was one of the first in our area years ago to decorate heavily. Maybe if there had been more homes decorated that way it would have slowed him down. It didn't help that the house was on a curve.
"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on." - Rod Serling
The neighborhood I grew up in was like this neighborhood. We'd pick a theme each year for decorating. One year we did the 12 days of Christmas. Each home was assigned a number. Once we hit 12'it started over again. It was cool how each one was different in their own way. We all helped too if needed. I was just a kid so I don't know the cost or how forced this was. It was just something that was agreed on. Another year we all did candles in the window and down the drive ways. It was fun. I'm sure there we meetings and rules of cost and such. We did this yearly from the time I was 4 till we moved when the I was 13.
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