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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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![/quote]

... congratulations?

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

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 …[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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