Agree or Disagree?: Inflatable yard Christmas decor is tacky

[Anonymous]

Sometimes it's fun to be tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care how people decorate - but I think of all of this eventually ending up in a landfill and it makes me sad. We're all guilty to some extent - I don't have inflatables but we do have christmas lights, etc.

So true …

[Anonymous]

Why are people on this site so worried about whether or not something someone else does is tacky?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This trend will end.

Yes, and when it does, all the people on this thread claiming that they plan to use their inflatables for 40 years and then pass them down to their children will… throw them away.

Know what’s tacky? Garbage barges in the ocean because we ran out of landfill space to put all the crap we ordered from China in “the holiday spirit.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people on this site so worried about whether or not something someone else does is tacky?

Because a neighbors external decor impacts the overall neighborhood aesthetic. I wish my HOA had more stipulations on holiday decor. Not necessarily inflatables but limitations on how much one can have in the yard of any given thing. If noise can be controlled, loud visual decor should have similar restrictions as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people on this site so worried about whether or not something someone else does is tacky?

Because a neighbors external decor impacts the overall neighborhood aesthetic. I wish my HOA had more stipulations on holiday decor. Not necessarily inflatables but limitations on how much one can have in the yard of any given thing. If noise can be controlled, loud visual decor should have similar restrictions as well.

Sure, as long as you abide by it too. In this case, it would be best to allow nothing for anyone besides a small list of allowed plantings because all else is subjective. What you think is tasteful, I might find gauche.

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Anonymous wrote:They don't make me happy. They remind me of all the junk people buy at the holidays and how much of it winds up in landfills and also how much oil and fuel gets used up shipping it to people's homes so they can do this stuff. I get some people use them year after year, but some people don't, and also it becomes another thing that people compete over so what starts as one house with a few tacky inflatables because entire neighborhoods full of them. Yes it is bad for the environment.

Also, there are lots of ways to make kids smile. You can hug them! Bake some cookies! Say you love them! You really do not have to buy a generator and a $100 piece of tacky plastic on Amazon to make your child smile during the holiday season.

Sorry to be a killjoy. I love holidays and celebrating with family and friends and enjoying food and I even like plenty of decorations, just not the plastic crap ones, and the yard inflatables are sort of the poster child for "plastic Christmas crap." I'm not a grinch but I can't get behind these.

Coming from a person who probably has a too big of a house and hires out lawn care...

Wrong on both counts. I live in a condo, don't have a lawn at all. I don't even own a car. I love how the responses to my post have all been "whatever, you're probably a hypocrite." But I'm actually not.

I bet a lot of you talking about how much you love the inflatable lawn ornaments also lecture people about recycling and claim to be environmentalists. But you'll hide behind "but the kids like it!" when you want to buy all your plastic crap from Amazon. Guess what, kids don't understand the implications of filling our lives with a metric ton of plastic waste that must be shipped using fossil fuels to arrive on your doorstep -- it's your job to know that.

The "it's for the kids" argument is particularly galling when you realize that the accumulation of all this plastic crap, delivered via the burning of yet more fossil fuels, is precisely what is destroying this planet "for the kids."

Anyway, I don't care if I'm a killjoy. You people need to hear this.

I just had printed 100 boxes of trial exhibits. I killed a small Brazilian rainforest, polluted a stream near the paper factory, used fedex and guzzled gas to have them transported, etc,. Can’t wait to get home and set up my inflatables!

... congratulations?

It's weird that the people who love plastic inflatables are the "good guys" on this thread.

Weird indeed … they probably put up inflatable assault weapons in areas that are second amendment cult strongholds as a symbol of good will among men (forget about women and where all other gender identities are banned) …

Hoping the ghost of Christmas Future visits them with visions of the environmental destruction by plastics, foreign sweatshops filled with children who should be in school, aesthetic assaults on our already often bleak urban and suburban landscapes and spiritual sacrilege towards the meaning of Christmas …

Inflatables are made from nylon - a fabric featured in most of the world’s clothing and produced in similar factories in China where your clothes are made.

I bet the righteous crowd buys more nylon and synthetic clothing in one month, than the material in one recyclable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are people on this site so worried about whether or not something someone else does is tacky?

Because a neighbors external decor impacts the overall neighborhood aesthetic. I wish my HOA had more stipulations on holiday decor. Not necessarily inflatables but limitations on how much one can have in the yard of any given thing. If noise can be controlled, loud visual decor should have similar restrictions as well.

Sure, as long as you abide by it too. In this case, it would be best to allow nothing for anyone besides a small list of allowed plantings because all else is subjective. What you think is tasteful, I might find gauche.

That’s why I said limitations— meaning no more than 1-3 items of any given thing. Height restrictions would be good too. One of my neighbors had a nine foot inflatable turkey during thanksgiving that gave me nightmares.

[Anonymous]

I think it's tacky and that's exactly why I love it.

[Anonymous]

Of course it's tacky, that is what is so great about it.

[Anonymous]

They are simple and cheap and take 0 time to put up.. the real truth is they use them because they are lazy!

[Anonymous]

Tacky in the best possible way!!! Love it!!

[Anonymous]

Of course it's tacky! I love it anyway, though. Bring on the inflatables.

[Anonymous]

I don't care about tacky but agree that this stuff makes me think about all the garbage created. I already feel guilty about some of our plasticky decor indoors, I have to assume these things have a limited shelf life and wind up in the trash a lot. Plus the generators to keep them blown up. It dies just feel like lots of landfill fodder.

[Anonymous]

Trailer park tacky.