Today is Christmas. Or secularly, December 25th. Regardless of beliefs, churches, social structures, and power grids, this day of the year motivates (or more importantly allows) people to add a bazillion assorted lights, lawn displays, synchronized musical reviews and production effects rivaling Pink Floyd onto their houses. I think it’s awesome and question the limitation of “super-lighting” to only one holiday or period of the year. Why not go filament crazy 365, baby?

These days, Halloween (the best holiday ever) is now a close 2nd in exterior overdoing it-ness, but beyond Decemberween (the period of time encompassing the entire month of October, the part of November after Thanksgiving, and the entire month of December) there’s nary a fun light to be found. That’s really sad. If people get so excited about crazying up their residences for Decemberween, why not just go year round. You could save yourself a lot of work each year going up and down ladders and potentially shocking yourself when you find out why you can’t daisy chain 14 strings of lights together the hard way.

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