# Worst Christmas Decoration **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337 "2018-11-30T16:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/21 "2018-12-02T19:23:05Z")
These are either among the Worst Christmas decorations, or the Greatest – I can’t make up my mind – Inflatable Christmas Dinosaurs and DRagons [https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Accents-Holiday-8-ft-W-Pre-lit-Inflatable-Kaleidoscope-Dragon-with-Flaming-Mouth-and-Present-Airblown-111871/305026333](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Accents-Holiday-8-ft-W-Pre-lit-Inflatable-Kaleidoscope-Dragon-with-Flaming-Mouth-and-Present-Airblown-111871/305026333) [https://www.walmart.com/ip/7-5-T-Rex-with-Present-Airblown-Inflatable-Christmas-Prop/37299879](https://www.walmart.com/ip/7-5-T-Rex-with-Present-Airblown-Inflatable-Christmas-Prop/37299879) [https://www.sears.com/giant-airblown-brontosaurus-and-christmas-tree-scene-9.5/p-009W007761523001P](https://www.sears.com/giant-airblown-brontosaurus-and-christmas-tree-scene-9.5/p-009W007761523001P) [https://www.kmart.com/gemmy-christmas-airblown-inflatables-holiday-stegosaurus-w-santa-hat/p-009V007695290000P](https://www.kmart.com/gemmy-christmas-airblown-inflatables-holiday-stegosaurus-w-santa-hat/p-009V007695290000P) > **[Animated Stegasaurus Dinosaur Christmas Decoration](https://www.thegreenhead.com/2013/11/animated-stegasaurus-dinosaur-christmas-decoration.php)** > > Put away the giant inflatable snowman, because a festive dinosaur in a Santa hat and knit scarf has returned from extinction to invade your front lawn with ferocious holiday cheer this Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/22 "2018-12-02T19:24:18Z")
Or how about a Handmade Christmas Cthulhu ornament? > **[This item is unavailable - Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/listing/492976221/christmas-cthulhu-tree-ornament?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_d-home_and_living-home_decor-ornaments_and_accents-ornaments&utm_custom1=84a487ac-ba47-4bd3-97f7-c680f49d5ff1&utm_content=go_270949355_42663651816_194315708584_pla-308499720158_c__492976221&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7pOkwu-B3wIV3UwNCh0TawzzEAQYASABEgJnbfD_BwE)** > > Find the perfect handmade gift, vintage & on-trend clothes, unique jewelry, and more… lots more. [https://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product\_view/ThompsonCrafts/2510827](https://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/ThompsonCrafts/2510827) > **[Cthulhu Christmas](https://shewalkssoftly.com/2010/12/16/cthulhu-christmas/)** > > “Cthulhu Christmas” felt like an appropriate title for an image odyssey…and I was not disappointed. Something about this creature of the deep seems to lend itself to holiday craft… Or Cthulhu Christmas Cookies > **[The Eternal Madness of Cthulhu Cthchristmas Cthcookies](https://cheezburger.com/8408741376/the-eternal-madness-of-cthulhu-cthchristmas-cthcookies)** > > The Eternal Madness of Cthulhu Cthchristmas Cthcookies - Funny WIN Photos and Videos ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/23 "2018-12-02T20:34:37Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > We have a neighbor who decorates his yard with Christmas gnomes every year. They look like regular gnomes with white beards, but they all wear Santa hats. There are gnomes carrying Santa-like bags over their shoulders, gnomes decorating Christmas trees, gnomes hanging stockings on a mantle, gnomes carrying giant candy canes, gnomes on sleds being pulled by reindeer, one gnome handing another gnome a large Christmas gift, gnomes scaling small chimneys with bags of presents, gnomes building snowmen, you name it! The whole scene is nauseating & I’d take nutcrackers any day over gnomes. [Chowder? Is that you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=494522) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/24 "2018-12-02T21:45:11Z")
- > [@jayjay](#): > > [Chowder? Is that you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=494522) OMG that’s hilarious!! I would have thought that Chowder might be one of my neighbors, but he lives in England and my neighbor (thank GOD) only goes mad with gnomes during the Christmas season. I’d probably go insame if I had to see gnomes all year long. And after reading that thread, I might suggest a gnome nativity scene be added to his lawn 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/25 "2018-12-03T02:10:10Z")
A large cross decorated with white lights [like this](https://binged.it/2KP2sXl). My best friend’s neighbor puts it up every year, and I always want to ask if they’re confusing Christmas and Easter. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/26 "2018-12-03T02:20:03Z")
I think that Wales has it nailed with [Mari Lwyd](https://goo.gl/images/UCLzur). > **[Mari Lwyd](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd)** > > The Mari Lwyd (Welsh: Y Fari Lwyd, IPA: \[ə ˈvaːri ˈlʊid\]) is a wassailing folk custom found in South Wales. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth. > The custom was first recorded in 1800, with subsequent accounts of it being produced into the early twentieth century. According to these, the Mari Lwyd was a tradition performed at Christmas time by groups of men who would a... ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/27 "2018-12-03T13:11:31Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > I think that Wales has it nailed with [Mari Lwyd](https://goo.gl/images/UCLzur). > > [Mari Lwyd - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lwyd) Okay, now that’s just freaky. It’s like the Welsh version of M. Night Shyamalan’s _Santa’s Village_. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/28 "2018-12-03T13:35:55Z")
[This Xmas decoration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb0jBaINBXc&ytbChannel=null) above your front door might discourage package thieves. ---
**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 3, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/29 "2018-12-03T13:49:44Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Those gigantic blow-up santas/snowmen. They seem to exist solely for people who both want to be outrageously garish and tacky, and want to spend the least possible amount of time and effort doing it. I saw one last year of a playful Christmas kitten, posed [thusly](https://goo.gl/images/h4i1DJ). With the arrangement of things in the yard, it looked as if it was presenting to the Santa-and-candy-cane behind it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/30 "2018-12-03T14:12:33Z")
I grew up in Minnesota, and got a job in south Florida after college. One of my first Christmases back in Minnesota, I decided to take a couple of pink flamingo ornaments with me as a joke. Unfortunately, everyone in my family thought that they were the coolest things ever. The next year, I had to get everyone else a couple of pink flamingo ornaments. I’m still somewhat baffled by that, since pink flamingos have nothing to do with Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/31 "2018-12-03T14:29:53Z")
One year, at one of those Christmas Craptacular shops that had popped up in a vacant store at the mall, I found a set of large resin merman ornaments, including one that appeared to be dressed in leather bondage gear. (Can’t really count it as a worst decoration though, given the surprisingly high quality.) It was so out of place that I had to imagine some very naive person placing that particular order. > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > During the drive to school in the morning we’d pass the house, and they were always deflated, spread out on their lawn like a crime scene. > > We called it “Christmas carnage”. Someone on this board once described them\*\*\*\* as “deflated yeti condoms.” > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Weirdest ornament I’ve seen is the Christmas pickle. No excuses for that will suffice. My father worked in the pickle industry. Inevitably, someone would give him (or the family) a pickle ornament, often accompanied by some variant of “I bet you’ve never seen one of these before!” Why no, I don’t think we have one in that shade of green. > [@RobDog](#): > > Caganer. Google it. Not at work though. XD Knowing that it’s a traditional part of the Nativity scene in some places makes it even funnier. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/32 "2018-12-03T16:21:58Z")
Well, I guess there is a crummier Christmas decoration than a nutcracker…the Caganer baffles me even more. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/33 "2018-12-03T16:55:35Z")
On the subject of inflatables, a house in the neighborhood used to have one of (IIRC) a cup of cocoa with smiling gingerbread men and smiling marshmallows in it - as in a hot tub. Struck me as a tad morbid, as the implication for me was they were soon to be eaten. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/34 "2018-12-03T17:39:45Z")
What is with penguins at Christmas? Penguins inhabit the South pole for crying out loud. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/35 "2018-12-03T17:58:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What is with penguins at Christmas? Penguins inhabit the South pole for crying out loud. They live in a cold place, and are cuter than polar bears. Less likely to eat you, too. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/36 "2018-12-03T18:14:47Z")
HOBOKEN?? Oh, I’m dyin’ again! ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/37 "2018-12-03T18:36:40Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Decades ago, when I rented an apartment in a house, down the street, this family would leave their orange jack-o-lantern trash bags full of leaves out in their yard through Christmas and will into February. So yes, orange jack-o-lantern trash bags are crummier Christmas decorations than nutcrackers. Amusingly, I have never seen the pumpkin leaf bags left around Seattle (probably due to the active city composting program); however, the one that is super amusing to me are the Halloween pumpkins which if left on a covered dry porch and un-carved can last for months. (cool but never freezing) I have pictures of Thanksgiving Pumpkins, Xmas pumpkins, New Year’s pumpkins, Valentine’s pumpkins, St. Patrick’s pumpkins, and finally two years ago I captured the elusive Easter pumpkins! All taken on different stoops. So Easter pumpkins are indeed the tackiest Xmas decoration. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/38 "2018-12-03T19:18:03Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > I’d probably go insame if I had to see gnomes all year long. And after reading that thread, I might suggest a gnome nativity scene be added to his lawn 😃 It just goes to show, no matter the time of year, there’s gnome place like home. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/39 "2018-12-03T19:42:26Z")
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) has a feline Nativity scene. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337/40 "2018-12-03T19:45:54Z")
In the neighborhood where I had my first house there was a guy who had this 3D pressed plastic Santa head that was about 2 feet in diameter that he hung on his front door. That in itself was fine but he also put a red light bulb in his porch light. During the day everything was fine but at night his porch looked like the entrance to Hell with one of its nastier denizens leering out at you as you went past. The red light washed out any colors from the face and you were left with just the contours and those large black laughing eyes. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-decoration/825337.md?page=3)