Christmas is just over a month away, so get to work on beating this

[Lindy]

<a href="http://www.mypartypost.com/watchvideo/1033/Best_Christmas_Lights_Display_Ever">The end is nigh</a>

[Rye]

I'm so glad I don't live near anyone with overly obnoxious decorations for Christmas.

[Shoden]

People here have Xmas decorations up before Halloween!

[XxSephirothxX]

We have a tradition of going around and looking at the "tacky lights" people put up. It's even worse here in the south because everybody's Jesus crazy. Seing a thousand lights on a doublewide trailer is a pretty funny sight.

[eestlinc]

we used to go around and leave notes in people's mailboxes from the "power company" thanking them for all the electricity used.

[Rye]

That's awesome, elsie. xD

[Alive-Cat]

It's the same as Shoden here. England is known to get a little over excited about Christmas, at least most of it.

[Leeza]

There's a Christmas Lights Contest that goes on in our town every year and most who enter do really decent jobs. But if my neighbour was the one with that music constantly being played for his light show I would shoot him/her.

[Jess]

Wow, that is mental. I love it when christmas lights are up everywhere, because they are real pretty. Living next door to that, however would probably make me want to kill myself.

We never put up lights outside, because its not like we are going to sit outside and look at our house.

[Seymour_Guado_Goth]

Don't celebrate Pagan traditions.

[ff7+ff10 gurl 100]

Whats a Pagan tradition?

[Lindy]

Persian turned Roman Christian turned Mainstream Hallmark.

So no kiddo, you're not a "rebel" for calling it "pagan", you're wrong.

[xAerisx]

Where the hell did you get that it was pagan from. Halloween is the pagan one, silly.

[RPJesus]

I couldn't be bothered to let it load up, but I hate Christmas lights. A few little ones, fine, but these stupid bloody flashy things are just annoying. Like 5 different colours, on and off, on and off. They're just so tacky.

We have, in my house, one big tree in the front room. A real tree with sort of old decorations and beads wrapped round. Just as a joke, really, we have one miniature fake tree in the hallway. It has a string of multi-coloured fairy lights and funny coloured tinsel, and the tree chocolates. It's the tacky tree.

[omnitarian]

Well, it's thought that the origins of some christmas traditions came from Catholic and pagan (polytheistic) rituals "melding" together.

But anyway... that christmas light thing is crazy. That guy must have an electric bill from here to Tuesday. I certainly wouldn't like to be in that house when the lights go off... you'd probably get epilepsy just by looking out the window.