Every day at about 5pm he puts out holiday decorations (right now Halloween, but same idea for Christmas later in the year), then at about 9:30pm (~4.5 hours later) he brings them in the garage.
Every… single… day. Same schedule.
We’re talking multiple lawn inflatables, led lights, and other misc decorations.
I’ve never seen anyone else do this before (especially every day).
Is this a normal thing for others?
The question is “Is this a normal thing for others?” and the answer is “No.”
Somebody else mentioned having them stolen, but it might be even more traumatic if he’d had decorations vandalized in the past.
Other comments bring up vandalism or theft, but it could be a utility thing. Like he doesn’t want to pay for all that electricity.
But at that point, why not just get those timers?
And then there’s me, who saved time by putting my Christmas lights up in November of last year.
And not taking them down…
Yeah bro just don’t turn them on. Nobody will know.
I assumed theft prevention, but if he has a nice lawn, he could also be trying to keep it from dying.
People keep talking about crime, but I tend to hold off on even putting up decorations until a week or less before the holiday because where I live the weather will destroy or launch your decorations, and the storms often come at night with no warning.
So my immediate thought was, he wants to preserve those decorations. It’s something I would do if I didn’t just accept I’d be replacing a third to a half of my decorations every year because I can’t be assed to take them down for storms.
My gas station had a giant dinosaur and a store down the street had a giant chair. They just chained them down like a dog on a leash.
High crime area?
No. I have had Christmas lights stolen, but those were on the fence by the road, we don’t have that in this house.
The inflatable things people just deflate and leave out usually here. Everything else just stays so the house stays decorated.
Doesn’t want them to fade in the sun?
I don’t think so. They’re usually in the sun for at least the first hour.
Right, but that’s late evening sun rather than midday sun for hours.
