What to Avoid: The 4 Worst Christmas Decoration Ideas
Christmas decorations are supposed to be a little over the top, but occasionally, people can go overboard and put decorations that are incredibly hideous, horribly offensive or just plain wrong. Here is my list of the decorations that should stay off your lawn and out of your home. 1. A creepy Santa lurking in the shadows of your yard. Neighborhood watch was created specifically to keep people like creepy gnome Santa from existing, and you decide to place him under a tree or in the shadows so people think Santa is trying to break into your home? There are tons of Santa statues out there in a variety of poses. Try to get one that doesnt look like a lurker, and when it gets dark, make sure you turn his light on. The last thing you want is an APB for an overweight elderly male wearing a red suit.
2. Animatronic wire reindeer: This is a relatively popular because they depict Santas reindeer grazing on your snow covered yard. Aww, how cute. Sadly, there are more than a few pranksters out there that think moving Rudolph so hes mounting Blitzen is a great idea. Next thing you know, you have a reindeer swinging his head in apparent coital ecstasy. That will give a kid or two some nightmares and more than a few hours of therapy. If you do choose to put these kinds of decorations out, then make sure you check in on them a few times in the night.
3. Guy hanging off the roof: This one makes the list because someone actually did it. Everyone knows the difficulty of hanging lights on a home, and more than a few people have fallen off their roof in their efforts to create the perfect northern star. Someone decided to exploit this little fact and hang a mannequin from his roof so it looked like someone was hanging on. This would have been hilarious had it not been for all the police reports about a man hanging from the roof or the elderly woman who almost died trying to rescue the mannequin.
4. Christmas, Romero style: Many people are annoyed at the commercialization of Christmas and the movement away from its more biblical meaning. This has caused more than a few to create a more macabre Christmas scene filled with blood and gore in an effort to make a statement. I guess you can still buy fake blood at Christmas time. Santa Claus hacking up civilians and reindeer feasting on the blood of children are not going to make you very popular on the street. Instead, why not just make your Christmas presents from scratch and avoid the stores all together?
When you decide on those perfect Christmas decorations, avoid the above and you wont have the cops at your door on a daily basis.
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