Agree or Disagree?: Inflatable yard Christmas decor is tacky

[Anonymous]

Tacky, but I love them. It’s their yard, they can do what they want. I love looking at Christmas decorations this time of year. It’s so festive. I love it, makes me happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully I live in a neighborhood with very few of them.

Thankfully I live in a neighborhood with lots of them. So joyful!

[Anonymous]

Op puh-leeeze!!!

ITS HOLIDAY DECOR !!!

Stop excluding people. Holidays especially need to be about inclusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several neighbors have inflatable Christmas decor in their front yard, and it is so tacky blowing around in the wind. Does anyone else find this method of decorating tacky and cheap looking?

When you have children, they love these things that's why we do them.

[Anonymous]

Could some start a thread of the approved decorations? Possibly some bits of unused twine or pocket lint?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could some start a thread of the approved decorations? Possibly some bits of unused twine or pocket lint?

Please don't. I can answer for you -

Warm white lights, fresh wreath with red ribbon on the door, a candle in each window.

SO BORING. We drive through neighborhoods and rate peoples displays. We give points for originality, fun and time it took to put together. Some houses are a hot mess, but they are fun. They always outrank boring traditional decor.

[Anonymous]

Same as the Halloween inflatables : tack

[Anonymous]

It is fine. My only problem is with people that deflate them during the day. Makes its appear that the neighborhood suffers from drive by shootings.

[Anonymous]

Extremely tacky.
Simple white lights are the only way. Maybe some evergreen boughs and a simple red velvet ribbon.

[Anonymous]

Sadly, children are tacky. What can you do? Their tiny brains have not been fully formed and guided by you. They even like (gasp!) Disney. Just be grateful that we live in calmer times and not the psychadelic fueled before-times of some of us...

[Anonymous]

NP. I thought I recognized HR Pufnstuf.

Who is the gravestone looking character? Is it a talking gravestone?

The 70s were a lot.

[Anonymous]

I mostly just hate the inflatables for being more plastic crap, and think the ease of the inflatables contributed to more people ordering them and contributing to overconsumption of future landfill items, as well as the impacts of easy online purchasing on fossil fuel consumption.

There have always been people who go wild with holiday decor and while that's not for me, if they want to put the time, money, and effort into it, great. It does make a lot of people happy.

But the effort, expense, and space (both display space and storage space) necessary for that approach meant it was fairly rare. Now anyone can fill a yard of any size with cheap inflatables via a one-click Amazon Prime order and 30 minutes of service up, and plenty of people don't bother with hanging more than a few lights (because that's work). It's just a sign of our cheap, easy, wasteful, lazy society. One step closer to Wall-E.

No thanks!

[Anonymous]

My mother in law sent us one and my kid likes it so.... whatever. We've been using it for five years now and it still works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, children are tacky. What can you do? Their tiny brains have not been fully formed and guided by you. They even like (gasp!) Disney. Just be grateful that we live in calmer times and not the psychadelic fueled before-times of some of us...

Are you talking about the historic version of a tv show: Masked Singer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mostly just hate the inflatables for being more plastic crap, and think the ease of the inflatables contributed to more people ordering them and contributing to overconsumption of future landfill items, as well as the impacts of easy online purchasing on fossil fuel consumption.

There have always been people who go wild with holiday decor and while that's not for me, if they want to put the time, money, and effort into it, great. It does make a lot of people happy.

But the effort, expense, and space (both display space and storage space) necessary for that approach meant it was fairly rare. Now anyone can fill a yard of any size with cheap inflatables via a one-click Amazon Prime order and 30 minutes of service up, and plenty of people don't bother with hanging more than a few lights (because that's work). It's just a sign of our cheap, easy, wasteful, lazy society. One step closer to Wall-E.

No thanks!

Not to mention the mental storage needed to think and decide if this inflatable is "cuter" or that one to purchase