Okay, fess up.

B

Boybert

Cathlete
Who puts up those ginormous inflatable lawn ornaments? My neighbor across the street barely waited for Halloween night to be over before a giant penguin, dog, and asundry other characters swallowed the lawn. Think, Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I wonder if my lights will flicker one of these days? I guess you can say I am not a big fan, no offense to you folks that do it ;)

What I want to know is, where can I find a blow up menorah the size of my house to one up em?


Debbie


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
--Ellen Degeneres
 
Not a fan either. There's a house near me that has every conceivable lawn 'thingie' you can imagine. They decorate for every occasion. I swear we have brown-outs in the neighbourhood because of them;)
 
lmao Michelemooo! Perfect! That and a big bag of chocolate coins. It'll be fantastic...mwahahahaha.

anyone wanna contribute to the floaty fund? phhhhbt.


Debbie


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
--Ellen Degeneres
 
That is hysterical - I thought she was kidding. I can't believe they actually make those! how funny
Although I was just at my local pet store and they had dog toys - chanukah gelt and some blue star of david thingey = plus xmas and chanukah attire! marketing - gotta love it!
 
Hysterical -- so funny! I love that. We have a few neighbors who go wild with the blow-up stuff for Halloween and Xmas...I like to walk by the house and pretend I am living within a cartoon!

-Barb
:)
 
I think a giant puffy dreidel would be the bomb.

Nah, I go minimalist with my decorations. A few lights on the trees, candles in the windows, that sort of thing. The puffy decorations seem like a colossal PITA. Every time I drive by them they're deflating or deflated.

Sparrow



My garden is filled with papayas and mangos
My life is a mixture of reggaes and tangos
Taste for the good life, I can live it no other way
- Jimmy Buffett
 
I like the snowglobes. Tacky, I know. But, I love snowglobes. Probably because I live in So. California and I get excited even for fake snow.
 
This thread is so very timely!!!!

So, my DH comes home from the store yesterday w/ a giant blow up Santa on a motorcycle.... Its absolutely a-one cheeseball, I can't believe he got it.

The funniest part about it is that when the power isn't running to the fan that blows the air into to keep it blown up, Santa collapses. Thus, it looks like he is part of a crime scene. ( I'm thinking about getting some tape to put around him for the daylight hours that says "do not enter".

If anybody lives in MI and wants to do an "outdoor ornament" theft, I'll pay YOU!! :)

Lynn M.}(
 
One stormy Saturday afternoon my late mother-in-law, who lived 1000 miles away in sunny Florida, called up DH and told him to run out to our local Lowes immediately (we were in the middle of a freaking blizzard) because she had just ordered a Santa lawn ornament for us and she wanted him to pick it up. The thought of having one of those things on my front lawn pushed me over the edge and I absolutely refused to let him leave, physically planting my body in front of the garage door. Needless to say, it caused a big uproar in his family because I refused such a "thoughtful gift." They got over it eventually, but every time I see one of those horrible decorations I think of that nightmare afternoon.

Fortunately, none of my neighbors have them, but I do pass a house on the way home that has two ghastly snow globe lawn ornaments in front of it. The ornament lights are on and the snow is blowing, 24/7. Meanwhile, the paint is peeling off their house, the front porch is falling down, and they need a new roof. It's too bad they didn't save their money and spend it on more important things, like a can of paint!
 
Well, there is a stripper who lives in the next block (really, my son's friend's mother, who knows everything about everyone, confirmed that this is the woman's occupation) who has the most decorated lawn I've ever seen. NO grass, mind you, just rocks and bark and waterfalls and gnomes, oh my. (And we live in NEPA so this is really a bit bizarre.) For holidays she puts out an entire ensemble of tasteless blow-up items. My SO refers to these as her "blow-up friends." hehe
 
I live in a condo and the association would frown upon something like that! I don't like those things but this association sometimes makes me mad with their rules and I told my DH that I would just love to put up one of those great big snow globes just to make them mad! Of course I'd just get fined!
LD}(
 
Michele, what a find!

While I was going to school I used to live in an Italian neighborhood. It was an actual activity for me to drive around and look at the stuff people put out. Our town looked like Times Square in December. :p I thought it was a hoot.

Nancy
 
Okay, okay, okay am I the only one here that will fess up? I have a giant Santa holding a bag with a present and a candy cane. I do have a family dayhome though with six little ones four and under and they love it! I don't put it up until at least two weeks before Christmas and we have tons of snow here and it is dark all the time (Yukon, Canada) in the winter so it lights things up a bit;)
Laura
 
Yep Laura....your the only one!!:7 :7 :7 :7 :7 .

This thread was too funny. Although my dd wants to put one of those in her bedroom and ds would like one to use for target practise (how can you MISS!!).

Michele....leave it to you to find giant candles!!!!!

Hey....can anyone find a giant glazed donut????? I'd love to put one of those out there! (LOL)

Briee
 
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>Hey....can anyone find a giant glazed donut????? I'd love to
>put one of those out there! (LOL)
>
>Briee

LOL! Personally I'd like a giant inflatable Johhny Depp, but that's a whole 'nother thread....:D


My garden is filled with papayas and mangos
My life is a mixture of reggaes and tangos
Taste for the good life, I can live it no other way
- Jimmy Buffett
 
I will join Laura and confess we have one in our yard. It is up at this moment. Our house and yard are gettin' more and more Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacationish every year. :7

Autumn
 
I cannot fess up to putting up those inflatable things... I shudder when I walk by them in the store because I know DH is right next to me reaching out to grab ALL of them, LOL!!!

For now, we're sticking with lighting the outside of our house so we can see it from space. }( Incredibly entertaining!!! I cannot believe we have not blown the entire block by now...
 
Okay, I'll fess up!

One year, about three years ago, I was too lazy to do my usual Halloween display. I put out a 10' tall Vampire Pooh and a Tigger(I think he was dressed as a bat) on my lawn. Someone kidnapped Pooh and then returned him two days later!
I never used them again. I do have them saved in their boxes- for one day I may have a grandchild that loves Pooh characters:)
 
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