You won’t believe what I’m going to suggest now. This is one of my favorite cheap dates in December. Pack up a thermos of hot chocolate and some of the leftover holiday cookies and go drive around looking at the wild and crazy displays of holiday decorations that some people display.
In our area, one of the parks does a huge a drive-through display of lights and scenes. You pay $5.00 a carload (don’t load the car, just the two of you, please) and drive through the park while the lights blink and flash and cheesy Christmas music plays over tinny loudspeakers.
But we also like to just take a ride and look at the lights. We enjoy the simple, tasteful displays as much as the showy, blinky ones. One house that we adore always does simple candles in the windows, wide red swaths at the door and a plain evergreen wreath on the front door. It is some simple that it’s breathtaking.
There are also a couple of houses with blinding displays of moveable figures, flashing colored lights and whtever else they can manage to put on the expanse of lawn. Sometimes we think we should make a contribution to the electric bill (can you imagine??)
This year, the internet is making this date a whole lot easier. Just go to www.tackylighttour.com to find pictures, and a search function. You can find homes with crazy light displays in your town and make your own tour. Take the camera and you can upload photos of what you find to the site as well. Just be aware --- this site has an eyeblinding 10,000 bulb minimum to be included. And if you find your home on the site --- well --- would you like a donation to the electric bill??
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