Tips For Chosing The Perfect Holiday Lights

One of the greatest things about the month of December is seeing all of the holiday lights that pop up around the neighborhood.  While growing up, living in the country did permit the ability to see a variety of holiday lights.  Now that we have moved more into a suburban city, it is quite a different experience come the first day after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Since many people do not work that illustrious day after Thanksgiving, the holiday lights begin sprouting up that very morning.  Just taking a short drive around town allows you to see the husbands of the household dragging the big ball of tangled up strands of lights out of the garage, and then trying to make sense of the whole mess on the driveway or in the front yard.  Just taking one look at their faces as you drive by can tell you that it was not their idea to do this again this year.  However, there are some of the happy men outside whistling away as they dream of their display of holiday lights being the best in the neighborhood. 

Soon after the lights are untangled, the ladders are dragged outside and the real fun begins.  Wives stand on the front porch directing where the holiday lights should be placed on the house, while the husbands stand on the wobbly old ladder struggling to use the staple gun to attach the lights to the area around the gutters.  Inevitably, some arguing, yelling and swearing takes place as the wife just doesn’t understand what is taking so long, and the husband is ready to throw the ladder across the street because the holiday lights keep falling off the house, the ladder keeps slipping and the wife just doesn’t like the way they are looking.  After much grumbling, the lights are completed and in the evening the glorious holiday lights are turned on and everyone is happy again.

Driving around, one can see exactly which houses contain the husbands that swore at the big bundle of tangled lights, as they have holiday lights strewn across the lawn and house in no real pattern.  These will be the homes that have the holiday lights up all year long.  But turn the corner and there is a home that contains a man that was whistling away the entire time, with the self-constructed stars, perfect straight strands and plastic Santas decorating the yard.  Both types of houses make the holiday experience complete, and wives secretly sympathize with the houses full of grumblers and swear under their breaths at the houses with the whistlers.