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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]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. [b]I get some people use them year after year, but some people don't, [/b]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[/quote]

No one is throwing these out each year.  They aren't cheap.  They are very easy to store, not taking up much space at all. They are more environmentally friendly than most holiday decor (fake garland/trees/wresth, hard plastic decor from the 90s, christmas lights)

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Sure, okay, keep telling yourself that so that you can feel good about the cheap plastic inflatable that was almost certainly manufactured in China by an underpaid worker, shipped across the ocean on a ship burning oil, driven to a distribution center on a truck burning oil, and then delivered to your home by yet another underpaid worker with minimal benefits.

I don't like fake trees, wreaths, garlands, or "hard plastic decor" either -- it's all part of the same pile of plastic garbage that is killing the planet. I will admit I have a weakness for Christmas lights but personally don't put them up because I won't buy the plastic. But a few strings of lights that do in fact get used over and over are less offensive to me than the proliferation of plastic garbage on people's lawns and houses every year.

Y'all think you're being "fun" but one day your kids are going to be like "hey why did we participate in the murder of the planet in this way?" and you'll be like "we did it... for you?" Like think this $hit through, people.[/quote]

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