There Should be a Law...

No Christmas lights up before the Thanksgiving holiday! Thanksgiving is next week and for a week now I have been seeing more and more houses with Christmas lights. I just don't get it! There are lots of Thanksgiving decorations that can be up up. So when the family comes to Thanksgiving, does it feel like Thanksgiving, or Christmas?

Last night we drove through a little town just northeast of here and the town had Christmas lights up on the lamp post.

Don't get me wrong... some of these displays are spectacular and it's great that someone will go through the work and cost for something others enjoy seeing. It's just a bit too soon... if you ask me.

Okay so here's some CA and PA differences on holiday decorating. In California most people who decorate elaborate houses do not own the lights or do the decorating themselves. They actually rent the lights and the company that they rent them from comes out and installs them and removes them. Not everyone does it this way, but I know quite a few who do.

In a certain part of Beverly Hills/Bel Air area there is a law that you cannot put color Christmas lights on your house. The lights must be a gold type. And yes, these houses literally look like they are dripping in gold. It is truly an amazing thing to see. On the rare occasion that my Mom or other family members came to see me around Christmas I would take them to see the Bev Hills Christmas lights, McMansion after McMansion dripping in gold lights.

The picture is one that is going around the internet through email. Pretty funny.

Ciao