Inflatable Yard Decorations -- Halloween or Christmas

[jdb in AZ]

Our neighbors have so many in their yard I'm tempted to poke holes in them with an ice pick. Just kidding. But not really. We might get some high winds tonight/tomorrow. Here's hoping the decorations will be gone with the wind.

Do you like them, or think they're tacky?

 

[disneychrista]

A bunch of random inflatables looks kind of tacky in my opinion. If they are a theme or part of a theme I don’t mind them.

 

[Kitty 34]

I personally don't like them during the day when they're laying around looking like they've been shot or something but they can be fun to see at night.

 

[E&Cmom]

Not a fan. One year one of our former neighbours attached a bunch of them to their room. Looked ridiculous especially when they started deflating.

 

[a1tinkfans]

I don’t like the way they look like dead things when they re not inflated. Nor do I like random “ things” all over the place for a holiday. To each his/her own. I wouldn’t say tacky .. just not my thing.

 

[SteveH]

I'm not a fan of them, but don't really care what people do in their yard as long as they are staked down and I don't hear them. We live in a high wind area and I often find one or two in the street after a big wind storm. Our neighbor usually puts a few up in their back yard, not their front, so their kids can see them. I liked that.

I put up a series of Peanuts yard art cut outs that I've made; first for Halloween that morphs into Thanksgiving and then to Christmas. To each his or her own.

 

[slo]

I voted - other

I don‘t like them, but I don’t think they’re tacky - they are just not something I like.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Do you like them, or think they're tacky?

I like them. We had several for Christmas (we load up with Christmas decorations) that served us for many years, until they started leaking too much air from the seams.

Now I only have a small Olaf inflatable. But lots of other stuff.

 

[shh]

I'm too cheap to buy them myself (the decent sized ones are pretty expensive!), but I love walking around my neighborhood and seeing them - they make me smile and cheer me up when I'm feeling sad. Especially the disney and minions ones.

I think it's especially adorable when someone has a tiny yard and crams a bunch in - it's just so childlike. I love holiday decorations of any kind - from elegant and tasteful to totally tacky/kitschy. I just appreciate that the person made an effort.

I'm a Clark Griswold kinda gal.

 

[Kimkimba]

I like them and will have a good many in my yard. I was debating on benching my Eagles Santa but the team must not want that (after yesterday’s win).

 

[Kimkimba]

And I don’t care if you find them tacky. I decorate for the kids (and adult kids).

 

[dreamer17555]

Any effort someone makes to decorate their yard and make it festive and fun is a win in my book.

Honestly all the judgment about some people trying to turn their yard into something festive and happy seems a little overboard to me- tacky etc… Personally I don’t put them up in my yard but I never would judge those who do. I’m just happy for every house that’s decorated it feels like there are less and less every year. So kudos to everyone who decorates.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

They’re tacky, especially when people put several up in their yard.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

In principle? They're fine. Personally not my style but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy seeing them on other homes. Sure some go overboard and some are not that good looking in design or they aren't practical but I don't usually say they are tacky.

Personally It's enough to worry about our light up cherry blossom tree that we have to weigh down with bricks (because stakes barely do anything) in our mulch bed that having inflatables is just not what I want to worry about with respects to wind or heavy snow but they are common enough to see around here.

I must say a house on the cul-de-sac next to us (but on our street) has a something like a 1 1/2 story or close to a 2 story tall Santa..it's kinda cool to see that driving home

 

[RedAngie]

I used to have several inflatables: a black cat on top of a pumpkin for Halloween, a turkey for Thanksgiving, and a few for Christmas. But I got tired of them and gave them away.

My library has a Christmas decor exchange in early December, so I left them there for someone else to enjoy.

 

[maxaroni]

I’m not sure tacky is the word to describe them to me, I don’t like them at all, though. I don’t like what they look like during the day, think they have become over done. One on the yard is passable, but more than that is way overdone. To me, less is more.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Wonderful because they are fun! You left out the giant smiling Turkey for Thanksgiving too.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

When we lived on the farm they were a novelty and the kids and I would drive around looking at them. Then when I left my husband the kids and I went to live with my grandma until we got on our feet. That was my first experience with living in a neighborhood, at least since I was a kid myself, and it ruined the inflatables for me. Her neighbors across the street had this one inflatable decoration with these dogs wearing winter hats and it had moving parts and lights. They would put it in the front yard the day after Halloween and it stayed there until spring. They would leave it plugged in and running all night long with the lights shining in the bedroom window, I can still hear the mechanical whirring noise the moving parts made!

 

[mamamary]

I put other. They’re not my kind of decoration but not sure I think they’re tacky. I also do hate how they look during the day when deflated.

 

[LSUmiss]

And I don’t care if you find them tacky. I decorate for the kids (and adult kids).

I used to not like them, but DS loves them so now we have them!