I don't have the words.......
I sort of like it.
lol
We have the same out here. However, since I've ALWAYS referred to Colorado as "New Jersey With Mountains", this does not surprise me.
What DOES surprise me are the remarkable number of homes NOT decorated on the 'outside' in Denver this year.
We've all remarked on it.
A LOT of the newer Denverites are people from very small towns in the Midwest who kept the decorations inside and didn't really have 'the tradition' of outside lights anyway, but Nicholas pointed out that the most noticeable differences in outside lighting are in neighborhoods with a heavy concentration of new arrivals [ 5-10 years] of people who have moved from those small towns into 'the Big City' {Jesus, this is The Big City??? lol].
Not having that long-standing 'tradition' of making sure the homestead is visible from space [lol]--the way it's done in New Jersey or New York for example--I don't think the outside decoration had any sort of emotionally-based traditional "need". Know what I mean? Hell, in some ways a lot of people back there think it's downright blasphemous to NOT decorate outside. What with the economy, I think a people are plain scared and cutting corners wherever they can----which means the electric bill. And while that's true all over this city, it's definately most glaring in the newer neighborhoods, where people from Kansas etc have seemingly concentrated. Here on Capitol Hill there are definately fewer decorations, yet it isn't as blatant as in other areas of town.
It's a frivolity, not a necessity. However...that does not apply to MY tree roflmao, and this morning I will put up the last of our outdoor lights. I was waaaay lazy...
