Holiday Inflatables - Public Service Message

[grinningghost]

If you have an inflatable (or multiple inflatables) holiday decoration - please, do your neighbors a favor and keep that thing inflated 24/7!

They look like colorful, empty trash bags laying on the ground in the middle of the day when they aren't inflated.

If you're willing to shell out 150 bucks for a Christmas decoration, please pay the extra bucks in electricity to keep it inflated. Passersby will love you.

P.S. - Keep them upright too. Nothing weirder than seeing Snoopy in his fighter plane laying on it's wing. Whatever would the Red Baron think of that?

 

[Geoff_M]

P.S. - Keep them upright too.

The running joke in our family as we drive by such a display is "Looks like Santa/Frosty/Rudolph's been drinking again!"

 

[kdibattista]

There is a little house that I pass that has (no joke) at least 15 inflatables. It's not a large lot either... they literally take up the entire lawn (front and side). It seems they add a new one every year... this year being the blown up Nativity scene. During the day, it looks like a massacre of plastic all over their lawn (although having them all blown up is not much better). I will have to try and go get a picture... it's crazy.

 

[HelenePA]

Can I add if you have no front yard the roof is not the proper place to have one of these things.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

There is a little house that I pass that has (no joke) at least 15 inflatables.

OH MY LORD!

 

[solferino]

I hate them, but DH got a penguin one for DD a few years back because she's penguin obsessed. They take great joy using the phrase "it's time to blow up the critter tonight". If that would only really happen and that stupid penguin would burst at the seams never to show its face on our lawn again. I'm such a grinch.

 

[Nienor]

And please, if you don't blow up Santa, don't have him tied to a large post in your yard. I'm tired of looking a deflated santa hanging from a post every day when I pick up my son from school. It's slightly macabre.

 

[Magickndm]

I don't have one (honest!) but I think they say to only leave them on 8 hours at a time. I don't think the motor is made to run 24/7.

 

[3DisneyBuggs]

My neighbor across the street has a Mickey Mouse Santa inflatable. I was so excited to see Mickey Mouse, it kind of feels like being at WDW during Christmas. Of course it doesn't, who am I kidding!

 

[connorlevismom]

If you have an inflatable (or multiple inflatables) holiday decoration - please, do your neighbors a favor and keep that thing inflated 24/7!

They look like colorful, empty trash bags laying on the ground in the middle of the day when they aren't inflated.

If you're willing to shell out 150 bucks for a Christmas decoration, please pay the extra bucks in electricity to keep it inflated. Passersby will love you.

P.S. - Keep them upright too. Nothing weirder than seeing Snoopy in his fighter plane laying on it's wing. Whatever would the Red Baron think of that?

I was just thinking about this today as I drove by my street. The guy on the corner has a Santa and it FREAKED me out today as I drove by because it looked like a dead kid laying in the snow! My heart sank for a second before I realized it was just that damn Santa.

Kristine

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

a house in our neighborhood has one of every one available!(no kidding - they have a vendetta against our HOA!). It lloks especially awful when they are all flat during the day!

 

[azgal81]

I always thought people deflated them so people don't come up and slash them with a knife.

 

[Mickeyluver37]

My neighbor across the street has a Mickey Mouse Santa inflatable. I was so excited to see Mickey Mouse, it kind of feels like being at WDW during Christmas. Of course it doesn't, who am I kidding!

I saw a Disney snowglobe one today, and the globe had Mickey ears! Our santa's motor died last year and I would love to find this one in the stores!

 

[ASFCurly]

We have a guy not to far who has like 6 of them, with a small front yard. He deflates them every day, and they manage to fall over EVERY SINGLE night. I have never seen them looking good. I can't figure out why he has them.

 

[bord1niowa]

That's why we deflate ours, the slashing. Somebody did slash our Homer Simpson Santa and our Grinch. We have about 9 up in our front lawn and no it isn't that big. We do get a lot of people slowing down to see them though as our neighbors also put up lots of decorations for Christmas and Halloween. Many people stop and take their pictures in front of their favorite characters. Halloween is more fun though, we lean towards the dark side then with an electric chair, stocks a gargyle and many more, and next year a HUGE Castle. I'm working on getting a crematorium that slides the body in and out and looks like flames and smoke and lights. Get chills just thinking about it....lol

 

[KariC]

I saw a Disney snowglobe one today, and the globe had Mickey ears! Our santa's motor died last year and I would love to find this one in the stores!

saw them at home depot!

 

[BethanyF]

I saw a Disney snowglobe one today, and the globe had Mickey ears! Our santa's motor died last year and I would love to find this one in the stores!

I saw this one outside KMart

I have 3 inflatables...
Mickey with an ornament (about 3 feet tall)
Santa on a hammock between 2 palm trees (about 4 feet tall)
and a big Santa (maybe 8 feet?)

I saw Santa with a pina colada under a palm tree at Walgreens and Im seriously considering that one. But then one of my others would have to go, Im pushing it with the 3 that I have.

 

[Imzadi]

Pictures, please!

We don't have yards here in NYC. I'd love to see what you re talking about. I drove by one house upstate recently, but all the inflatables were were all up and in their glory.

 

[helloirishkitty]

My neighbor across the street has 5 inflatables that are ALWAYS on... He's retired so I often see him watching them from his window.

He also has all of his lights timed to music. Different sets of lights flash to different notes...They're timed to "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" and it's on from sundown-sunrise.

The cops where there last night at like 3am. I guess one of our neighbors is not a fan of "We Wish you a merry Christmas"..

 

[rparmfamily]

I'm not a fan personally lol!!