Anonymous wrote:We probably need to get the local governments to regulate these things.

I think it’s ok to take matters like these into my own hands. I walk right up to the door of any house I see with an inflatable. If it’s inflated I assume that it some point it will be inflated and unsightly, so I handle those matters as well. I knock insistently upon the door and when someone answers I complain loudly, with the full authority of my whole neighborhood behind me, I’m sure. If no one answers, I speak at length into their ring-cam or etch a note into their porch paint with a nail that I carry for just this type of errand. And of course if the offender is a business, I go in and demand to speak with the manager. I mean, the holiday decor standard of the entire neighborhood is at stake.

We probably need to get the local governments to regulate these things.

I run them during the day for the little kids on the neighborhood. It’s the cutest.

1. We don't inflate them when it's windy or when we're not home.
2. They're for our children, so we don't turn them on until shortly before they come home.

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Anonymous wrote:…during the day?

They deflate themselves. Collapse in the hard looking so ugly.

I walked by a deflated Santa today. Looked like he was passed out drunk. Made me giggle.

They are lighted and it's expensive to run during the day.

Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of us do things at Christmas to bring our kids joy. But you do you.

This is about deflated yard decorations, but if that's what makes your kids happy, you do you.

I think a lot of us do things at Christmas to bring our kids joy. But you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:…during the day?

They deflate themselves. Collapse in the hard looking so ugly.

Yep. When we got these many years ago because kids liked them, they would deflate on their own. A reason why you shouldn't use them. Such a hassle.

They're ugly looking when deflated. Like dirty laundry strewn across the yard.

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Anonymous wrote:Those baffle me. Why would anyone buy something in the first place that takes so much energy and then looks like a sad deflated balloon during the day?

I feel the same way.

Most are so tacky and a waste.

Santa would not approve.

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Anonymous wrote:Those baffle me. Why would anyone buy something in the first place that takes so much energy and then looks like a sad deflated balloon during the day?

I feel the same way.

Most are so tacky and a waste.

Anonymous wrote:To save energy and to save the fan/lights from burning out. To watch the pleasant nightly ritual of their unfurling to a turgid state.

I love it when they are laying limp all over each other like a postcoital orgy. I take a lot of photos on my neighbourhood walks- of all the lawn inflatables limply endeavouring to pleasure each other in broad daylight.

I've gotten DH into taking photos of them too and I might make a Shutterfly album some day.

You have some imagination!

To save energy and to save the fan/lights from burning out. To watch the pleasant nightly ritual of their unfurling to a turgid state.

I love it when they are laying limp all over each other like a postcoital orgy. I take a lot of photos on my neighbourhood walks- of all the lawn inflatables limply endeavouring to pleasure each other in broad daylight.

I've gotten DH into taking photos of them too and I might make a Shutterfly album some day.

Anonymous wrote:…during the day?

They deflate themselves. Collapse in the hard looking so ugly.