A Complaint

I love Christmastime and all of the things that come with it like Christmas music, getting together with family, presents. However, I do not think that people should feel the need to put up horrendous Christmas lights all around their houses or just leave them there until Valentine's Day. Of course most lights are nice and spread holiday spirit, but, some of them just make your house look bad. Some of my neighbors, who are guilty of putting up ugly Christmas lights, do not realize the pain they are putting others through when they drive by their house everyday. I do not know what these people think they are going to benefit from having these decorations up. It will certainly not make them more popular or brighten their neighbors day. Worse than these awful Christmas lights is when people leave them up for extended periods of time. I do not think anyone is so busy that they cannot spare ten minutes to take them down in the two weeks following the new year. By mid-February, they might as well just leave them up for next season. It makes the dismissal of the holiday season more painful for everyone, seeing these lights up a month later but knowing you have to wait another 340 days before late December comes again. Holiday decorations should be used to spread spirit and make people happy, not to make them annoyed by a flashy display or to painfully remind them that the holidays are over.