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.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
Or how about a Handmade Christmas Cthulhu ornament?
https://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/ThompsonCrafts/2510827
Or Cthulhu Christmas Cookies
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 
A large cross decorated with white lights like this. My best friend’s neighbor puts it up every year, and I always want to ask if they’re confusing Christmas and Easter.
Okay, now that’s just freaky. It’s like the Welsh version of M. Night Shyamalan’s Santa’s Village.
I saw one last year of a playful Christmas kitten, posed thusly. With the arrangement of things in the yard, it looked as if it was presenting to the Santa-and-candy-cane behind it.
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.
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.
Someone on this board once described them**** as “deflated yeti condoms.”
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.
XD Knowing that it’s a traditional part of the Nativity scene in some places makes it even funnier.
Well, I guess there is a crummier Christmas decoration than a nutcracker…the Caganer baffles me even more.
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.
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.
HOBOKEN?? Oh, I’m dyin’ again!
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.
It just goes to show, no matter the time of year, there’s gnome place like home.
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) has a feline Nativity scene.
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: