Wow, the posted pics are really impressive. I'm not much of a decorator, so all outside decoration we have is what you see here: coloured lights at the three front windows and a garland and a wreath at the door. That's all.
And if it weren't for the children, we wouldn'd have the coloured lights. I had sworn to myself that I would never, ever have these coloured things, I hated them. Too corny, too lurid, too much.
After some years of begging, I bought them for the kids. But now, after three or four years of getting used to them, I like them too
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