Nomination: Most Absurd Seasonal Lawn Decoration

[hrj]

This is the time when I wish I had a digital camera so I could make my nomination in proper form. But visualize if you will:

The scene is Maine. Snowy Maine. Glistening white diamonds cover the yards in a blanket. A light dusting of flakes is drifting down out of the sky. And there on the lawn is a six-foot-high inflatable plastic snow globe, containing a four-foot-high inflatable plastic snowman, with a fan-blower constantly recirculating a swirl of styrofoam "snow".

In Maine. In winter. Sitting on top of a snowbank. With snow coming down.

Comments

snow snow and more snow

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

Gilding the lilly, methinks.

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

Never accuse anyone of intelligence or good taste. *smile*

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

The worst is when they turn off the air and this deflated...thing is left lying on their lawn. I live in Somerville, MA; I've got at least three crazy decorated place on my street, one which features an air-powered giant teddy bear.

New England is weird. And I say that as a native Californian.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

I saw those things in Sears when I bought the small amount of lights we put up, and was apalled. There's a lot of stupid stuff out there, and people are buying it.

However, that said, that situation is really absurd, as you note. Much more so than someone putting it up here, which would just look silly. There, well, you summed it up well.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if it were in Los Angeles, it would have made a certain amount of sense. Here, it's just ... redundant.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Even in LA or here in the East SF Bay it would look cheesy (at least to me). But you're right about the redundancy. Strange ... but as has been said before by smarter people than me -- if you make it, someone will buy it.

[gunnora.livejournal.com]

I've never encountered anything that redundant before. But we did find one house a year or two back that was particularly interesting with a plastic Santa kneeling before a lit-up plastic Baby Jesus in a creché, with the Virgin Mary enshrined in... half an old bathtub set on end into the lawn looking on approvingly.

This would have been startling even if the number of lights would have sufficed to illuminate your average major league sports stadium, and that the electricity powering them could probably have provided the annual energy budget for any third-world country.

For my two øre, San Antonio, Texas, still gets the prize for "tackiest Christmas decorations" and "most overdone Christmas decorations". A group of my friends and I often go touring around. We "collect" the two types of displays. Wealthy meighborhoods with a big cash prize for best decorations usually are a VERY fruitful ground for the "overdone" type.