# What's your weirdest holiday decoration? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143 "2015-12-11T02:26:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/1 "2015-12-11T02:26:59Z")
Ours is slightly mysterious: we own a bunch of little lead figurines. Old folks walking to church, ice skaters, a cute couple, kids throwing snowballs. We also have a couple of cars and houses, and a lot of trees. We used to set them up with a little electric trainset running around until owning pets put an end to that idea. The weird part is that somewhere along the line we also purchased a little metal figure of a black panther. It’s the right size for the others, but no one can figure out who bought it or where. Makes Christmas in that town a lot more interesting for visitors when you put it in an alleyway between two houses with a little red paper and a toddler statue lying nearby, though. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/2 "2015-12-11T05:58:40Z")
A Chickentivity; a deluxe version of this. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4f/4e/15/4f4e152cf37e2885028042e13e9800a1.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4f/4e/15/4f4e152cf37e2885028042e13e9800a1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dobbs)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/3 "2015-12-11T06:23:36Z")
This statue [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/112449321920369712/](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/112449321920369712/) Also a farting Santa. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/4 "2015-12-11T07:47:29Z")
Antelope skull painted in a cheery red+green+gold trim colour scheme. Sits on the mantel. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/5 "2015-12-11T09:40:24Z")
It is a sound activated plastic daisy with Christmas trim that wriggles to the beat of music. I’ve had it since the dawn of time and have no idea who bestowed this gift on me. Every year we switch it on for awhile to see it shimmying hysterically to the beat of Christmas tunes, and it cracks us up every time. I enjoy my elegant and tasteful Christmas decorations too, but there will always be a place for our Daisy. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/6 "2015-12-11T13:08:14Z")
In 1986, my husband left his blossoming career as an attorney in a Georgetown law firm so we could say “screw yuppieville, we want adventure!” His secretary - a lovely person who only pretended to be a yuppyie-law-firm-secretary-type so she could pay the bills - made us a handmade Christmas ornament which we took with us to Micronesia, where we moved when we said “screw it.” It was a clear glass globe decorated with ribbons and tiny silver balls. During our first Christmas in Micronesia, a local bug somehow got inside the clear glass globe and died. We loved the ornament before the bug died in it, because we really liked the person who gave it to us. But the dead bug added a really special je-ne-sais-quoi. Every year, it goes on the tree, and every year we inspect it to make sure the dead bug is still there. (It is.) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/7 "2015-12-11T14:24:53Z")
I have a handmade map of the world ornament that read “Raping the Earth” I was given it as a secret santa present my first year working in the oil field. It always goes in a prominent place on the front of the tree. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/8 "2015-12-11T14:33:07Z")
My mom’s most cherished nativity set (which used to go under the tree, but now goes on the mantle out of the dog’s reach) is made up of a bunch of fancy sculpted and painted figures passed down from her grandmother… and a greenish pig crudely shaped out of kids’ modeling clay. I’m not sure which of my sister or I originally made it when we were kids, but it’s been re-made a few times since when one of the pawed denizens of the house has gotten into it. There’s absolutely no way we’d ever put up the scene without it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/9 "2015-12-11T15:14:15Z")
We have one of those ceramic figures with the electric light inside, shaped like Frosty the Snowman. He has green glass eyes and smiles like a lunatic. The effect is absolutely terrifying. He spends most of the year packed in the attic in a cardboard box labeled “Frosty the Devourer of Children and Destroyer of Souls/Handle with Care”. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/10 "2015-12-11T15:24:45Z")
We have four cute little blocks that I set up to spell, “LEON”. People sometimes point out that they could be rearranged to spell “NOEL”, and I act dumbstruck. “Oh my god. . . you’re right!!” ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/11 "2015-12-11T15:46:28Z")
I have a few little hollow doll arms/hands that I’ve been sticking on the tips of the Christmas tree branches for 25 years. People seem to find them weird and creepy. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/12 "2015-12-11T16:46:28Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > We have four cute little blocks that I set up to spell, “LEON”. People sometimes point out that they could be rearranged to spell “NOEL”, and I act dumbstruck. “Oh my god. . . you’re right!!” 😛 Ours is not weird, but notable – giant Santa Pez. [http://web.pez.com/images/GiantPEZ\_SantaPKG\_render.jpg](http://web.pez.com/images/GiantPEZ_SantaPKG_render.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/13 "2015-12-11T17:06:52Z")
In and of itself, my motion activated singing Santa isn’t remarkable, but the effect it has on my pets is. Even though they have seen it every year, for years now, it causes a paroxysm of barking every time it goes off. They run around the house looking for the phantom singer. And it never gets old. They do it over and over and over. It should probably annoy me, but in all honesty, it makes me giggle. So of course, Santa has to come out every year. He made his appearance this last weekend, and I’m sure the neighbors must think I’m conducting fox hunts in my living room by now. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/14 "2015-12-11T17:08:00Z")
An 8" inch Doctor Who Weeping Angel [![](http://www.shopdoctorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Weeping-Angel-Christmas-tree-topper.jpg) ](http://www.shopdoctorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Weeping-Angel-Christmas-tree-topper.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/15 "2015-12-11T18:23:43Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > An 8" inch Doctor Who Weeping Angel > > [http://www.shopdoctorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Weeping-Angel-Christmas-tree-topper.jpg](http://www.shopdoctorwho.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Weeping-Angel-Christmas-tree-topper.jpg) Hee. I am getting the Tardis ornament for my father for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/16 "2015-12-11T18:41:30Z")
A 6" tall plastic snowman that craps out small jellybeans, white, of course. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/17 "2015-12-11T19:33:01Z")
A couple of ornaments I got from the San Diego Zoo: Santa riding a lion and a tiger. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/18 "2015-12-11T19:41:22Z")
An outdoor 2’ tall light-up R2D2 with a Santa hat on. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/19 "2015-12-11T19:46:14Z")
My parents’ tree (and I guess mine, too, I have all their ornaments) used to have a Mack Truck logo ornament. Corporate gift to my dad. We top our tree with either Hawkman or Angel (from the X-Men.) I don’t know if that’s weird or not. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143/20 "2015-12-11T19:52:42Z")
A pair of flocked mooses (meese?) that aren’t Christmas tree ornaments, but get stuck in the Christmas tree anyway. I love my Christmas meese. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-weirdest-holiday-decoration/740143.md?page=2)