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starcrafttom

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ladies and Gentleman I need your help. Christmas is my wives favorite holiday. She loves it, loves decorating for it even more. I believe that is why after weeks of promises the 30 ft tall evergreen bush in my front yard still has 8 strings of lights and 50 over sized ornaments hanging on it. Please phone text or email her and tell her the parties over. Every Night before bed she stands at the window looking at the lights smiling to herself, telling me how pretty they are. The neighbor's are starting to stare when they go by shaking their heads :roll: Please help me end the holiday :xseek
 
Tom, perhaps you should start celebrating YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY.....4th of July....by placing a firecracker next to each Christmas light bulb and ornament... :mrgreen:

Surely she'll understand...... :roll:
 
Every evening as the tree lights come on pour both of you an adult beverage, stand with your arm around her shoulders as she admires the tree, and enjoy having a wife who is original and interesting...
If the neighbors don't like it they can move.
 
Levitation":1y1g8v51 said:
Every evening as the tree lights come on pour both of you an adult beverage, stand with your arm around her shoulders as she admires the tree, and enjoy having a wife who is original and interesting...
If the neighbors don't like it they can move.
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That seems like the better solution.

I've heard that some men have wives who say, "You want a boat? Absolutely NOT!" You have it made. my friend. :wink:
 
Choose your battles. Lights & ornaments in February...you could have WAY bigger problems. From somone who has a CRAZY ex-wife...there was a time in my life I would've taken a little happiness/cheer & holiday innocence. :lol:
 
Not that I’m qualified on giving marital advice, but I would be careful here. Things could get ugly if someone were to make a bad move or even an unsolicited comment / ultimatum. I mean like the amusement park shuts down completely or your no longer tall enough to ride any of the rides. You might also start hearing words like FINE and WHAT EVER. If this starts to occur you might have to engage in gift giving 101 and turning on your automatic head nodding machine. If you have a neighbor that you already don’t like you could paste together words you can cut out of a magazine and put together a letter stating your point of view and signing their name to it. That ought to get the ball rolling. Probably the best course of action would be to tell her you love her, put on some sun glasses and get another adult beverage and glue your mouth shut except just enough room for the straw from your drink. Take my advice I won’t be using it.
Deer Scabby
 
Simple solution. Sometime when Susan isn't around you take down the lights and ornaments and hide them. When she notices, act surprised and blame it on the god #%S thieves or neighborhood tricksters. Then about 1 month from now, pack them in a box and leave them on your doorstep with a note on the top that says :

"Dear Elliott's,

We recently discovered these hidden in our son's room. Under questioning, he admitted to taking them from your house. We apologize for our child's behavior.

Sincerely,
You anonymous and embarrassed neighbors.

PS: While this certainly doesn't justify our son's behavior, this whole ugly incident could have been avoided if you would have taken down your Christmas decorations at a reasonable time. Perhaps next year."
 
Well its easy to see who has been married the longest around here. And for the record I have always been tall enough for any ride :wink:

I hope that she pulls them down soon and does not walk the same road as my late aunt. Ten year's the fake tree was up in her house, ten years. She just had different decorations for the different holidays. 10 years. :xseek
 
Tom, Only about 8 more months and it will be time to put them back up. Save yourself man, save the energy for something that really needs being done, Like moving the fridge to check the plug when the ice cream turns to soup.

And careful, I wouldn't be putting her suitcase on the porch either, she might just go :sad and take the boat. That she could :smiled

Harvey
SleepyC
 
starcrafttom":hmpduoch said:
Well its easy to see who has been married the longest around here. And for the record I have always been tall enough for any ride :wink:

I hope that she pulls them down soon and does not walk the same road as my late aunt. Ten year's the fake tree was up in her house, ten years. She just had different decorations for the different holidays. 10 years. :xseek
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Tom- I think your aunt was my mother-in-law! Can't wait to see you at Thanksgiving dinner.
 
We love Christmas too!


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Our peak lights were 17,045 exactly. Last season we went LED with 11,655 lights and consumed 1775.5 watts. Only 30 bucks more for the season.
 
Roger, you should be more carefull. I might do that and end up in my camper at your place for the year....can i have the stop NOT next to the cows?
 
SENSEI":3m245k5u said:
Hey Tom
I have a chain saw I can lend ya. then you wouldn't have to ever worry about it again.....lol.....
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Way to go Roger!....you and I seem to be the only ones in this group to have the real definitive solution to this situation...... :mrgreen: ..... of course we're not talking about our wives..... :wink .
 
DaveS":21qlkkmo said:
SENSEI":21qlkkmo said:
Hey Tom
I have a chain saw I can lend ya. then you wouldn't have to ever worry about it again.....lol.....
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Way to go Roger!....you and I seem to be the only ones in this group to have the real definitive solution to this situation...... :mrgreen: ..... of course we're not talking about our wives..... :wink .
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Jeez Dave,
I thought I had the perfect solution! Let's review the salient features of my solution:
1) The problem was solved - lights are down.
2) Somebody else gets blamed (husband 101 IMHO).
3) The lights and ornaments re-appear soon enough that Susan hasn't bought more. This might be a problem if this happened a few weeks ago when stores were unloading their leftover Christmas decorations but not now.
4) There's a gentle suggestion from the "anonymous neighbor" to take the decorations down earlier next year.

A solution that's ready to implement - "all wrapped up in a bow" if you ask me.
 
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