Bad Christmas Decorations You Should Avoid

10 Tacky Christmas Decorations You Should Avoid

It’s all too easy when decorating for Christmas to have plenty of Christmas Spirit without any observable Everyday Brains. A few quick pointers, before you look at this list to see if any of your neighbors are represented…

If you’re wondering whether your decorations might be a bit too much, they probably are… and yes, we can tell if you just threw the lights up there.

1.Wrapping doors is fine for in the office, but at home… it’s best avoided. (And if you absolutely must, leave it on the exterior of the house — say the front or back door, where it’s not quite so glaringly blatant as it is within the interior of your home. Please.

2.No inflatables for the yard! Unless they’re jumping castles, no one wants to see them. Seriously. It’s really hard to make these look good, EVER.

3.Cheap-looking plastics with the glowing center. While there are some acceptable-looking plastics out there, the general appearance is on the obnoxious side. So they’re best avoided.

4.Those easy-to-apply bush “nets” of lights? Often a mistake. Sure, you can make it work, but rarely will your yard look exceptionally good using them. So why waste the time and money applying them?

5.Obnoxious combination of colors. Yes, they’re bright lights, but this doesn’t mean they have to be ugly and obnoxious. Plan your color scheme before you start. And if you want to go monochrome with the lights, choose something less glaring, like white.

6. Overdoing it on the lights. Too many lights, too many lawn ornaments, too much of just about anything and it’s going to look pretty tacky. ‘Nuff said.

7. Under-doing it with decorations. So this is actually a pretty rare problem, compared to overdoing it. And we’re not talking about not putting up any decorations — that’s a lifestyle choice, a personal decision, and we respect it as such.

No, what we’re talking about is a single, one-sided, bright decoration, such as lighting up the big tree on the left side of your large front yard, or running a row of lighted candy canes almost all the way across the yard. If it’s big or bright enough to look “Christmas gaudy,” but not big enough to balance out the entire yard, it will likely look lopsided and awkward.

8.Santa is a perfectly fine lawn ornament. So is baby Jesus — but having them both holding hands is tacky and jarring, not to mention offensive, to some. Just don’t do it!

9.Different versions of Mary and Joseph or of Santa within the same yard. It’s jarring to see the same figure more than once, not to mention that it doesn’t quite make sense, unless your yard has a sci-fi theme.

10.A cluttered interior — your friends and family visit to spend time with you, not your cluttered collection of Santas and assorted figurines, not even the teddy bears. If you want people to notice your decorations, ensure that they are visible, first!

Find more great Christmas tips like these and many more here at GKLife.

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