Do you decorate the outside of your house and yard for holidays? If so, which ones? And to what extent?

I would go all-out for Christmas, if I had the money. There’s one house nearby that sets up a whole sprawling diorama, using lights and statues and cardboard and what must be a phenomenally expensive control system.

For Halloween, or actually fall, I have a pumpkin and a mum on the table outside my door.
For Christmas I went all out and got the male and female deer that are animated and bow their heads down as if eating the grass. The first year someone (damn neighbor kids) kept putting the male on the female so it looked like he was mounting her. I stopped putting them out. That is the extent of my decor for the holidays.

Just Halloween/autumn and Christmas/winter. For autumn I put out pumpkins, mums, corn stalks.. sometimes I will string some orange or purple lights through the railings on the front stairs.
Christmas… we light every tree in the yard. The roof gets done, the railings, I put garland on the fence and make bows, the inside of the house is insane, though. I like Xmas decorations. A lot.

There is not one holiday that I would decorate my home for. The holiday’s that I celebrate and really enjoy are the 4th of July and Thanksgiving, and they are spent eating and enjoying family….no need for decorations.

Of course I do enjoy seeing houses decorated during the Xmas season.

I put a jack-o-lantern out for Holloween and I decorate for Giftmas (tree and all). I want to put lights outside this year. That’s the extent of my holiday decorating.

I do a few pictures/signs in the windows, a wreath on the door, and some fairylights on the porch if we can get them working for Christmas. That’s it. However, I know that if we celebrated Halloween here in Australia I definitely would deck the house it as much as possible, I love Halloween stuff and I really wish it was bigger over here :(

If I could hire someone to do the work for me (or if it were as simple as changing themes on my computer), I’d decorate the house and yard to reflect the seasons, the 2nd of June, 4th of July, 21st of July (really, all of the major dates in aerospace history), Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, the bank holidays. Plus random stuff throughout the year. I would love to have a recreation of the Apollo 11 moon landing on my lawn

And none of that crappy inflatable-structure stuff. No plastic in my yard.

I don’t decorate outside for any holidays, maybe a pumpkin and some mums in the fall, that’s about it but I do like Christmas lights.

I spent Christmas with my aunt and cousin last year and there’s house there where the people put on this great display. They decorate the whole yard with lights and they have an FM transmitter. You pull up in front of the house and they have a sign in the yard instructing you to tune your radio to a certain frequency and they have the lights timed to the rhythm of the music they broadcast. It’s pretty cool. It’s like a Christmas dance of lights.

and @chyna, LOL! Damned kids! Some of my neighbors have inflatable decorations and someone always seems to be messing with them in some way. I don’t know what is so tempting about them, but they are.

Just a string of Christmas lights, maybe a pumpkin. I’m lazy and on a budget.

I don’t do anything for any holidays outside. If I had grandchildren (my kids are grown up), I would do something for Christmas at least. I wouldn’t go all out though. I have a fir tree outside though I would like to decorate and perhaps lights down the driveway and along the house.

I’d like to nail gun Jehovas Witnessessessesss to the outside walls of my home at Halloween, but unfortunately that practice remains illegal, for the time being.

We have some nifty little decorations that we hang on our front door for the different seasons. Like right now we have a carved, patina’d metal hanging with some autumn leaves on it and it says, “Fall Greetings.” For summertime we have a carved wooden heart that is painted like an American flag, a folk art type of thing. For easter we have a small bunny door hanger that says “Every Bunny’s Welcome.”

We decorate pretty extensively for Christmas, but we had to tone it down a bit over the last 2 years because my Dad had open heart surgery, so it was hard for him to move, carry and unpack the stuff from our attic in the way that he used to. So now we decide ahead of time what is feasible and what is not.

We used to do a lot of decorating on the day of Halloween, but ususally we don’t decorate at all any more, because we go to my brother’s house and go trick or treating with my little nephew. We don’t want the kids coming up to our house if we’re not home (cause it’s no fun to ring the bell and not get any candy) also the constant ringing scares my cat, so we try to discourage the kids from coming up to the door. If we were home, we would go all out. I will probably get a few pumpkins and put them amongst our potted flowers in the front yard as “general” fall decorations, just because I cannot resist them, especially those nifty heirloom pumpkins that come in all those crazy colors, like These

For Christmas, the inside or our house looks like Santa Claus is moving in, even with our toned down decorations! My whole family (none of whom is religious) is Christmas fanatics.

For Thanksgiving last year, I got one of those pretty white “ghost pumpkins” and hollowed it out and put a lovely fall flower arrangement in it, like This. I also got some of those small pumpkins, that are about the size of a large grapefruit, hollowed them out and put some dip in there to serve with crackers and chips, like This I also did that one year at a Halloween party, where we were having a chili cookoff. I made a vegetarian black bean chili and then served grated cheese and chopped onions out of little pumpkins.

Some years yes and some no, it’s depended on where I live at the moment since I move so often.

Halloween is my favorite holiday to decorate for. I like making spooking carved pumpkins with candles lit inside them and fake spider wed all over the front walkway plants.

Christmas is fun to use a bunch of mini lights around the front door, windows and inside the house, along the walls and ceilings. It’s an excuse to make everything slightly opulent or ethereal.