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How Tacky Is It?
Apr 24, 2007 | 7:53 AM
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I know it’s tacky to leave to leave your Christmas lights up all year long.  But what about the clips that hold them on.  You know, the clips you can see real easy?

What do you think?

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ljh3134 read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:05 AM

Wellll, just yesterday, the clips were removed from the gutters.....the boys in the family didn't see a problem with them, I find them TACKY, TACKY, TACKY!!!!!

But there are alot things these boys do that are tacky! Have a good one!
jeanette read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:07 AM

Do people forget that they put lights up.The lights last alot longer if you put them away every year.If they leave them up they should at least turn the on occassional for yard light.I have seen places the lights have been up for years and never turned on at christmas.Why?I don't know if they don't work anymore or they forgot they put them up 3 or 4 years ago.Either get them off the gutter or turn them on.I really never noticed just the clips tho.
ambernance read my blog
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:15 AM

Well my neighbors are lucky that I even took my lights down.. But as far as the clips go if you leave them up it is a lot easier to put the lights back up next year..
shannon30 read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:20 AM

Tim your good...I see so many people with lights up.

I know a lady that keeps her tree up with the lights and everything on it..she just puts a sheet over it to hide it.

By the way..I saw that smack on the butt you did as you were starting your walk. LOL Cute!

Shannn..I saw you at Mid Towne IGA
mr_wildflower read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:21 AM

I think they all do it in this neighborhood!!
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bugaboo read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:30 AM

It is alot easier leaving the clips up...I have little hooks stratically placed (hidden) on my porch that I leave just because it's easier. We don't put lights on our house so we don't have that much work to do. :-)
rosie read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 10:00 AM

yeah leave them up, what the heck, i bet the griswalds dont take theirs down


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Apr 24, 2007 | 10:04 AM

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Wildflower read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 10:39 AM


Timmy, take the clips down. It's tacky and lazy to leave them up. An eye sore. We're married over 30 years and still put the lights up and take them down.. in January.. clips and all. JMO
massagemom read my blog
Apr 24, 2007 | 10:41 AM

we leave our hooks up all year and I really can't see them. I know they are there but you'll really have to look kind of hard to see them.
stephan read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 10:43 AM

Clips? I did not know they exist. I used white(like my house) panneling nails and took pliers and bent them in a hook. You cannot see them unless you really look for them. But people that leave the lights up all year I think are a little tacky and lazy. It does look cheesey.
cardinalfan08 read my blog
Apr 24, 2007 | 12:38 PM

that is pretty tacky.
Labrat636 read my blog
Apr 24, 2007 | 12:49 PM

I once accused a friend of not taking down his Halloween decorations..........until I realized he lived next door to a graveyard....JK

Seriously though, does anyone else think that EXCESSIVE xmas lights are a waste of energy?

Notice I said "excessive" - don't accuse me of being a scrooge. It should be done "tastfully" - remember: "less is more"
stephan read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 1:29 PM

I am not putting them up anymore since I have put in security cameras and motion activated lighting. I don't have a easy power source anymore unless I run a outdoor outlet to my front porch, but that would look tacky too.
Cutter read my blog
Apr 24, 2007 | 1:48 PM

I think some on here are trying to get above their raising . Tacky depends on were you live . If you live in the country making a flower bed from old tires happens all the time . I know of one blogger on her that lives near a German community . There you can find old bath tubs , half buried with a statue of Mary inside .
Now we take our lights down after New Years Day . I never used clips , duck tape works great LOL
Go for it Tim , show them nabors your from Texas .
Cuteypops read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 3:15 PM

I Love Lights. Give me all the lights at Halloween, Christmas,Valentines Day, Easter, 4th of July. I have lights. You make think I'm nuts but I love to decorate my house. My neighbors love it. They take pictures and everything. As far as clips go Timmy, I don't use them. I have metal u shaped pieces that run across the front of the house. They are made of sheet metal. very easy to make. If you paint them the color of your house they blend in.
sarcasticdragon
Apr 24, 2007 | 7:40 PM

Clips?
Heck I'd be happy with clips, because the guy at the end of my street still has the candy canes lining his driveway. The lights fell down around new years day and are piled in a lump next to his garage.

He's had like 10 parties since christmas.
He can drag a keg of beer and food for 20 people into the house and the empty keg along with 10 bags of trash back out but tossing the decorations in a box in the basement is just to much of a struggle.

It's christmas all year long. BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP!
jana read my blog view my photos
Apr 24, 2007 | 8:38 PM

Oh just take the clips down people. Well, I take my lights and clips down, but if people want to be tacky more power to them. I do see this lots, so I guess there are lots of Tacky people out there.

How ya been Tim? How's that foot of yours?
Take care and "Be careful!"
Peace out baby! Jana
dont-like-t-storms view my photos
Apr 25, 2007 | 1:57 PM

TIM leave your clips right were they are.It will save you time next year!!!!! And so what you still have clips up there at least you took down your light! The lights are tacky but the clips NOT TACKY.
willieymmit read my blog
Apr 25, 2007 | 5:58 PM

Yea, I think it's tacky. But then again, we still have our lights up! Oh yea Tim, my names Timmy also. I guess I'm going to be crazy when I grow up also!!!
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