Five years ago, I covered something called Christmas lighting addiction in our then-fledgling newsletter. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, because I’m not a big believer of most addictive behaviors. Christmas …
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Are you really wasting time on this? As you said it is mostly harmless except to a persons wallet. It could be worse they could be drowning their feelings of inadequacy with liquor or drugs.
Ha their is a house in my neighborhood that I call the “griswolds” because you can see the house blinking from about a mile away. I pretty much have a seizure looking at this house.
i think the house in you blog foto is so kewl. i would like a google maps address for it. i want to know if it can be seen from space!
regarding human behavior and lights at christmas. for some people it is a social statement of status and also a source for competition with their neighbors. this is a class issue. i don’t expect everybody to get it.
my late dad was a jewish accountant and sometimes i worked with him at one of our accounts in jersey city new jersey– a garbage hauler.
a lot of the workers would borrow money from shylocks to out do each other in external house decorations. you couldn’t stop them. i guess there are worse more dangerous forms of exuberance, just much less visible.
you don’t see the rich drunk guy in the suv after the office christmas party because he has tinted windows and everybody using a cell phone swerves on the road, right?
so who is the greater social danger!
There are two houses (opposite each other) in my suburb that have huge christmas displays. For several hours from dusk there is a steady stream of visitors to look at the lights, and most stand around chatting. Surely the community benefit that creates is well worth a couple of bucks?
The xmas lighting addiction is even more dangerous when the lights spell out “Shop at Walmart”…….argh