Do you hang Christmas lights outside on your house?

[Kinnick 4 Prez]

We do a few simple things each year to make it look classy.

 

[theIowaHawk]

Yes?

 

[LuteHawk]

In the name of Clark Griswold, we need to make our homes
beam like a beacon of Christmas cheer. Our subdivision
shines with radiance as most of the homeowners do a great
job of stringing lights in the front of their residence.

 

[artradley]

Technically my answer is "no" because I no longer hang lights on the house. I've got lights on our shrubs, spotlights on the ground, candles in the windows, and LED spotlights casting sparkles on the house. And a video projection of Santa Claus in a window.

But no lights actually hanging in the house - the roofline is too high.

 

[unIowa]

I pay people to do that for me.

 

[The_Joker13]

I pay people to do that for me.

Duh, op must be poor.

 

[JWolf74]

The wife put a wreath on the door. Good enough. I've seen enough injuries (including a couple paraplegics) from hanging Christmas lights, add in my loathing of heights and it's pretty obvious I'm never going to do them.

 

[QChawks]

Absolutely.

Probably a coupe dozen strings from the gutters, bushes and tree.

 

[moral_victory]

I can't think of any decent reasons to do such a thing.

 

[h-hawk]

My wife puts lights on the front porch, and portion of fence facing the street. She also puts up a lit wreath on the front of the house. Basic but tasteful.

 

[Honda Hawk]

I'm a huge pussy when it comes to heights. Mrs. Honda put lights up on the gutters this year.

 

[KitingHigh]

I pay people to do that for me.

I put up lights professionally for a couple of seasons back in the day. We made pretty decent money doing it. We made them buy the lights, pay for installation, removal, and storage. Some houses were paying up to $10,000 or more and once we got into a nice neighborhood, they would start competing with each other to buy and install more.

 

[unIowa]

I put up lights professionally for a couple of seasons back in the day. We made pretty decent money doing it. We made them buy the lights, pay for installation, removal, and storage. Some houses were paying up to $10,000 or more and once we got into a nice neighborhood, they would start competing with each other to buy and install more.

I pay about $400 for install/take down/another $100 for storage and go with the tradition white lights that outline the roofline and porch. Then have a very large lit up wreath over the garage.

 

[strummingram]

I hang my lights on the houses of unsuspecting strangers.

 

[KitingHigh]

I pay about $400 for install/take down/another $100 for storage and go with the tradition white lights that outline the roofline and porch. Then have a very large lit up wreath over the garage.

That was pretty typical for a normal home basic setup. We specialized in the really nice McMansion neighborhoods. Once we got one house done and got a sign in their yard the neighbors would call and ask for more lights than the first guy and it would cascade from there. Usually our first few houses would bring us back in to add additional lights. We actually ended up partnering with an electrician because people wanted more lights than their panel could handle. This was before LED lights and we could only put 300 c9s on a circuit.

 

[jellyfish10]

Mrs. Jelly loves hanging lights so I just stay out of the way. Outside of our real tree in the basement that I harvest from some poor unsuspecting bastard's front yard, she also has 6 fake trees adorned in different themes. Outside of my Hawkeye tree, I have no clue what is on the other 5 (see my wife is mentally ill thread).

 

[The Tradition]

They go up Thanksgiving weekend and come down the weekend after New Years (or after FSU's last game) whichever is later.