Today, I want to take a look at the craziest Christmas houses. You know the ones. They use tens of thousands of lights and alarming numbers of inflatables, animatron characters, weird signs, and holiday gewgaws. Their houses look like the were decorated by the Griswolds. But they often do more good than just keeping the holiday decoration industry in business.
Take for example Little North Pole, the house near me in Neponsit that inspired this whole post. They raise thousands of dollars every year for Type 1 Diabetes through the Juvenile Diabetes Relief Fund. The family hosts a famous tree lighting show every year that attracts thousands of visitors (and the local news), and visitors to the house are given the opportunity to make donations to the JDRF. The wild combinations of old (note I didn’t say antique) and new decorations are kind of hypnotic, and I can’t imagine how much work it must be to get it all up there. While the overall effect is certainly a LOT, I have to admire their commitment, and it’s certainly magical for the children who visit.
Not all heavily-decorated houses are as successful (or altruistic), so below is a broad cross-section of good taste and bad, of fund raiser and money wasters.
You can follow Little North Pole on their website. And here’s the video of our trip to see it last weekend. (It’s a terrible video, but you can see the sights pretty clearly.)
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December 23, 2019 at 8:38 am
I do like some of the decorations, but mostly look for me very wild and crazy, Donna.
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December 23, 2019 at 9:48 am
They’re a bit much, all taken together. This is basically the opposite of the post I did last week about minimalist holiday decor…
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December 23, 2019 at 9:17 am
Had a ho-ho-holiday-hoarder panic attack looking at some of these homes..
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December 23, 2019 at 9:48 am
You and Beloved both!
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December 23, 2019 at 9:26 am
I guess the power company is happy.
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December 23, 2019 at 9:48 am
That’s a good way to look at it!
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December 23, 2019 at 5:24 pm
Some were too much for my senses. But. Certainly people seem to find joy in it. That’s what is important.
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December 23, 2019 at 8:16 pm
Some of them gave me a headache, but your way of saying it is much nicer.
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December 30, 2019 at 3:22 pm
I’m glad to see that Pooh Bear joined a band of angels.
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December 31, 2019 at 10:57 am
Strange bedfellows…
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