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I stopped in my local Lowes to pick up about $10 worth of items then as I had to walk past the Christmas decorations area they had just finished marking it all down 75% from the current price....that's just WRONG tempting a guy like that!

Terri and I had talked about installing permanently mounted Christmas lights in the near future. We'll the future is today. I left with a cart full of color tape outdoor led lights, 216 programmable multi colored lights in a 19.6 foot tape. $10 a box. 45 boxes...two 50 foot rolls of 250 led colored lights...ten boxes of 24.5 foot 100 led color lights... four 4 outlet plug ins with a remote control.

My math tells me that's 11,220 individual, non Italian twinkle lights/ leds plus allergy the other lights we already had on hand, those should total over 1,000 easily. That's 12,220+ lights, Clark Griswold had 25,000 but he had a 2 story huge house probably 2,500 or so square feet. Ours is a ranch style 900 to 1,000 square foot Ranch so we should give Clark a run for his money!

Spent about $400 total, I had some discounts populate at the register.
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I stopped in my local Lowes to pick up about $10 worth of items then as I had to walk past the Christmas decorations area they had just finished marking it all down 75% from the current price....that's just WRONG tempting a guy like that!

Terri and I had talked about installing permanently mounted Christmas lights in the near future. We'll the future is today. I left with a cart full of color tape outdoor led lights, 216 programmable multi colored lights in a 19.6 foot tape. $10 a box. 45 boxes...two 50 foot rolls of 250 led colored lights...ten boxes of 24.5 foot 100 led color lights... four 4 outlet plug ins with a remote control.

My math tells me that's 11,220 individual, non Italian twinkle lights/ leds plus allergy the other lights we already had on hand, those should total over 1,000 easily. That's 12,220+ lights, Clark Griswold had 25,000 but he had a 2 story huge house probably 2,500 or so square feet. Ours is a ranch style 900 to 1,000 square foot Ranch so we should give Clark a run for his money!

Spent about $400 total, I had some discounts populate at the register.
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Need pics of your 12,220+ lights ranch style Clark Griswold house . . . or it doesn't count! :clap:
 

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Need pics of your 12,220+ lights ranch style Clark Griswold house . . . or it doesn't count! :clap:
Will do, have your reply bookmarked!
The office desk Christmas tree, with "presents" (pic taken in early Dec.)

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Wife has one on our entertainment center, i added a star and she added the battery operated fairy lights.
 


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I stopped in my local Lowes to pick up about $10 worth of items then as I had to walk past the Christmas decorations area they had just finished marking it all down 75% from the current price....that's just WRONG tempting a guy like that!

Terri and I had talked about installing permanently mounted Christmas lights in the near future. We'll the future is today. I left with a cart full of color tape outdoor led lights, 216 programmable multi colored lights in a 19.6 foot tape. $10 a box. 45 boxes...two 50 foot rolls of 250 led colored lights...ten boxes of 24.5 foot 100 led color lights... four 4 outlet plug ins with a remote control.

My math tells me that's 11,220 individual, non Italian twinkle lights/ leds plus allergy the other lights we already had on hand, those should total over 1,000 easily. That's 12,220+ lights, Clark Griswold had 25,000 but he had a 2 story huge house probably 2,500 or so square feet. Ours is a ranch style 900 to 1,000 square foot Ranch so we should give Clark a run for his money!

Spent about $400 total, I had some discounts populate at the register.
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Look out Clark! New competition in town!
 

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I thought we had a thread on this already but surprisingly there isn't. I know some go all out and get crazy decorating their outsides like Tim Taylor so show what you got. lol Bonus points if youre Ranger is in the outside pics. :wink:

We just started decorating ours today and forgot we needed to replace the skirt so it's still a work in progress. Most of Annies ornaments and decorations are still back in Chicago so ours is still a little Charlie Brown looking this year. lol

This was last years tree. :frown:

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This years has grown up a little but still have some more decorating to do. ??⛪


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HELL YEAH !!! I put my Charlie Brown Christmas Tree up in my office. The last time I assembled a fake tree & decorated it,,, I left that thing up for 4 years. It was my Christmas tree, my New Years tree, my St. Patrick's Day tree, my Independence Day tree, my Thanksgiving tree, etc...
 
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HELL YEAH !!! I put my Charlie Brown Christmas Tree up in my office. The last time I assembled a fake tree & decorated it,,, I left that thing up for 4 years. It was my Christmas tree, my New Years tree, my St. Patrick's Day tree, my Independence Day tree, my Thanksgiving tree, etc...
I love it!! Back at our last house in AZ we'd take most of the decorations off and leave the tree up in the corner of the spare bedroom every year for 10 years. lol

Now that we're just about settled in (and finally down to about 4-5 boxes left to unpack) we will be putting up our tree over the weekend. Annie loves to decorate for Christmas and we've had all our stuff boxed up for the past couple years.
 

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I love it!! Back at our last house in AZ we'd take most of the decorations off and leave the tree up in the corner of the spare bedroom every year for 10 years. lol

Now that we're just about settled in (and finally down to about 4-5 boxes left to unpack) we will be putting up our tree over the weekend. Annie loves to decorate for Christmas and we've had all our stuff boxed up for the past couple years.
There’s something special about Christmas in a new place.

Now, get your painting stuff packed away, put the switch plate covers back on, and get those new light fixtures installed. The sooner you get Annie decorating, the less idle time she’ll have for shopping.
 

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There’s something special about Christmas in a new place.

Now, get your painting stuff packed away, put the switch plate covers back on, and get those new light fixtures installed. The sooner you get Annie decorating, the less idle time she’ll have for shopping.
You'll notice Duke said that in all seriousness because there's a real danger there...
 

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