# Holiday inflatables - yea or nay?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 29, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413 "2016-11-29T22:52:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/1 "2016-11-29T22:52:59Z")
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:
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/2 "2016-11-29T22:59:23Z")
I voted no, but I would vote the same way about any outdoor holiday decorations/lighting and indoor Christmas trees. I
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/3 "2016-11-29T23:12:41Z")
Nay. They always look stupid, and nobody ever reinflates them when they start sagging and looking really lame and sad.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/4 "2016-11-29T23:45:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/5 "2016-11-30T00:09:26Z")
I love inflatables … but not THAT kind.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/6 "2016-11-30T01:09:44Z")
My neighbors have some, I think it’s stupid. OTOH, were it not for stupid things, they would do nothing at all.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/7 "2016-11-30T01:10:35Z")
Hate 'em.
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### Author:  [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/8 "2016-11-30T01:38:45Z")
(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.
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/9 "2016-11-30T02:26:30Z")
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
[ ](https://www.digsdigs.com/photos/2012/11/50-amazing-outdoor-christmas-decorations-14.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/10 "2016-11-30T02:35:25Z")
Shit! They spent $225 on [THIS?!](http://christmasblowups.com/products.php?q=At+at+Imperial+Walker+8+Ft+Star+Wars+Inflatable+Airblown+Yard+Christmas+Blowup)
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?
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/11 "2016-11-30T11:43:58Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> Shit! They spent $225 on [THIS?!](http://christmasblowups.com/products.php?q=At+at+Imperial+Walker+8+Ft+Star+Wars+Inflatable+Airblown+Yard+Christmas+Blowup)
Nah, if they just got it, they probably got it at a discount on Friday.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/12 "2016-11-30T12:37:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/13 "2016-11-30T12:57:42Z")
I think they are beyond hideous. They loudly announce your lack of taste, for all to see. You might as well live in a trailer park, to my mind!
Ultimately it’s your lawn, and you’re free to put up any hideous display you wish. Go ahead, let your freak flag fly!
(So, so, very glad no one around here has put any up!)
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/14 "2016-11-30T13:14:54Z")
Your land, do whatever you want with it.
Personally, I’d love to have [one of these](http://www.atlantaadvertisingballoons.com/images/inflatables/86-F.jpg) set up in my yard, welcoming guests, for my next party. Found out they’re called “air dancers”.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/15 "2016-11-30T13:53:18Z")
I don’t care. Do what you want on your property.
However, I’m going to be all kinds of judgy about it from over here.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/16 "2016-11-30T14:13:01Z")
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.
We don’t decorate at all anyway. Bah humbug! 😛
And on review, I heartily agree with **DCnDC**!
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/17 "2016-11-30T14:35:36Z")
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 called it “Christmas carnage”. 😃
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/18 "2016-11-30T14:54:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/19 "2016-11-30T14:57:27Z")
I guess this is a slight hijack, but I think I know what some of you want for [Xmas](http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l2632.R2.TR12.TRC2.A0.H1.Xdarts.TRS0&_nkw=darts&_sacat=36274)…
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-inflatables-yea-or-nay/773413/20 "2016-11-30T15:04:26Z")
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.
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