Simple question - is there EVER an instance in which you favor inflatables at residences?
I vote nay. Full disclosure - my immediate neighbor has some sort of helicopter on their roof, and are currently putting up an inflatable imperial walker! :smack:
Which inflatables and which holiday? I don’t object to them based on looks, but those ones that look like Christmas snow globes get frost inside them up here, so they’re a thumb down. Halloween themed ones are generally fine because it’s warmer then.
(We’re talking about those big things with an electric pump that runs continuously, right? Like a 10-foot-high Santa or Frosty? Often lit up from the inside?)
I chose #3. I think they’re pretty harmless, and can liven up the suburbs for a few weeks. Kids probably like them. But I haven’t seen any on my street and I don’t mind either.
I went I don’t care. If I had a front yard I would maybe build some sort of display but probably not inflatable. I’m not against them – they just aren’t my style. I’m more this sort
I assume I wouldn’t feel as strongly if the continual whine from the fans inflating these things wasn’t audible from our bedroom… Now where’s my crossbow?
Now I want an inflatable ATAT but I don’t have a yard.
I’m OK with pretty much any decorations so long as they’re neither noisy nor intentionally offensive. That doesn’t mean I won’t snark about them: I respect your right to place styrofoam reindeers on your roof and you respect my right to snark about 'em.
I don’t care what people do, and voted accordingly, but I think inflatables are tacky, as are plastic light-up figures, animatronic figures, and over-decorating with anything. But I’m not paying for the “decorations” or the associated electric bills, so it affects me not.
There was a house we passed taking my kids to school that had all their holiday inflatables deflated and slumped on the ground during the day. It looked like a crime scene.
We put a big inflatable Homer Simpson out in the front yard one year. The kids loved it. Looked kind of cool. It’s common to see those things around here, they don’t seem to come back year after year at the same house.
There’s a business near us that puts an inflatable Santa on the roof at Christmastime. The trouble is, his hands are slightly forward of his lower portions, and move independently when it gets windy. Seen from the side, the effect is somewhat unfortunate.