Westover Hills Holiday Décor winners announced and my Décor Code

This might or might not have been in my yard.

Westover Hills Neighborhood Association have picked the winners of this year’s Holiday Décor contest. Congratulations to all the winners. Had I actually know the judges I would have bribed my way from Runner-up into first place. Continue reading for my Christmas Decor Code.

I genuinely love Christmas and seeing yards with bright colorful lights. I also admit to having my own rules about Christmas yard decor and feel an unreasonable need to share these rules.  Please bear in mind that this only my own code and not a denigration of other yards or styles of decor. Anyone that takes the time to make the area more festive deserves a kudo.

1. No decorations up before Thanksgiving.
2. Decorations should come down by the first weekend of the new year. (This rule is currently being evaluated as I enjoyed the lights I saw tonight.)
3. Every house should have at least 1 string of the old school C9, burn your tree down, tangle more easily, break if you look at them wrong, burn out easily, pain in the you know what style lights.
4. The amount of swearing under your breath while putting up your decorations should put you firmly on Santa’s Naughty list.
5. Lots of colors, monochromatic while an impressively long word doesn’t work for this house.
6. The more grass covered by inflatables the better.
7. There is no such thing as “too tacky”.
8. If you have a goodly number of lights, set your timer to turn off the lights at a reasonable  time. This rule doesn’t apply to Christmas Eve.
9. No licensed characters.
10. If a 4 year old isn’t impressed with your display you’re doing it wrong.

Anybody else have their own Holiday/Christmas Décor rules?