Help! My husband insists on putting Snoopy lights on our house!!

[Sparkly]

My husband puts up lights that look like the ones Snoopy put on his doghouse -- big ones, bright colors, twisting in different directions. Everybody else in the neighborhood has pretty little white ones, but noooo... We look like a carnival. We look like clowns celebrating Christmas. We look like we're having a clearance sale on something.

"Nobody's had these lights since 1972," I tell him. His reply: "They still make 'em." Well if they do, I don't know why they do.

Last year I insisted we get the little white ones. This year, they're mysteriously missing -- they got "lost" -- but the big Snoopy lights found their way back up on the house again.

Can this marriage be saved? :(

[trotsky]

1. White lights are BOOOOORING

Our house is decked out in the multicolor lights, as are many houses in our neighborhood.

What are you, some kind of light bulb racist??? ;-)

[Maddy McCall]

5. A white light supremacist, even??

LOL! Hilarious! :-)

[Maddy McCall]

2. I love your husband!

When he gets through putting the Snoopy lights up, divorce him and send him my way, and he can put my imitation Japanese paper lanterns up!

j/k :silly:

[enigmatic]

3. I like your husband...

Sounds like a great guy; let him do what he wants.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Those are the best lights.

Totally classic retro. We had those on our tree outside when I was growing up and we all thought they were cool. My grandparents even have a picture of the tree we put them on their basement wall in a frame.

[BlueJazz]

6. I love big bright gaudy colored lights on a house.

I feel the People inside are warm, kind, Big-Hearted Free-Spirited Souls. :)

[Wickerman]

7. Don't know about your marriage

but your husband has great taste! Retro rocks - we were considering those for next year

[ClarkUSA]

8. Sorry Sparkly....just close your eyes and think...

what would Wes do?

;-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. It could be worse. We currently look like the "house that scared Christmas

away". No lights and right smack dab in the middle of two competing light freaks. My Packer santa is up though. :hi:

[flamingyouth]

10. Those are the lights I have on my house too

I love them - my house looks great. :D

[VTdem]

11. Those lights are cool!

Plus it never hurts to have a unique house in the neighborhood

[fluffernutter]

12. how cool is he?

yes, i think your marriage can be saved, think of him as that little kid in 1972 :loveya: let him have his snoopy lights, and love him for it :)

[AlCzervik]

13. In a neighborhood full of white lights, the kids will remember your house

[ogradda]

14. uuummmm....eerrrr

come to my house and see you're not the ONLY house with big colored lights :)

[Ilsa]

15. White lights put me to sleep.

And the icicle ones only look good on roof lines with a high pitch, IMO.

Go with your hubby on this one. Do the Snoopy lights. We got them on our house too, and little minis (many colors) on the bushes and trees. I love our "clearance sale" look!

[proud patriot]

16. Hey at least your husband puts up Christmas lights

I'm the one that does that every year .

:think:

[Stinky The Clown]

17. "We look like clowns celebrating Christmas"

Oh really? Clowns?

I think this thread would prove to anyone that **I** have been vindicated and that **I** have wonderful taste.

Aww Sparkly, don't worry, our marriage is still sound.:hug:

Just so there's no doubt what a serious person I am in all this, here's what my sig line would be were they operating tonight:

Funny? How am I funny? Do I look like a clown to you?

[yardwork]

18. White lights were "in" when everybody used colored lights

Then everybody started using white lights and they became passe, boring, wal-martish.

Now the ONLY lights to have are colored lights.

[baba]

19. I used to be into white lights.

But this year, we decided to get the funky 70's style colored ones for our tree, just like I had when I was a kid, and I love them!

Embrace the funky colored lights!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

20. I love those lights!

They remind me of my parents. WAAAAHHHHH!!!

[Garbo 2004]

21. Dang. I thought you meant lights shaped like Snoopy

and I thought "They have those? Cool!"

Oh well.

:+

[Sparkly]

22. You guys are no help!!

You've just encouraged him!! :cry:

[Left Is Write]

23. I love the colored lights. Love them.

I love the unabashed joy with which some people decorate their homes this time of year. I love the child-like glee in putting up colored lights, twinkle lights, and little Santas and reindeer and smiling snowmen. I love the fun and festivity. I love the way they make me smile.

Elegantly decorated homes are beautiful and breathtaking. But the houses whose owners aren't afraid to let down their hair a bit - those make me the happiest.

[shance]

24. Sparkly you are terrific.

I hope you don't mind but you honestly made my night tonight. I truly haven't laughed that hard in a while.

Ive never heard them called "Snoopy" lights before, but thats a good point.

This may not mean anything to you, but its what came to mind when I read your post.

I grew up in an area where everything was always manicured (now even moreso) and essentially perfect, atleast on the exterior of all the houses** Of course back then, I thought it was beautful and magical and all those things.

Now I see those perfectly lit houses standing side by side, minus any imperfection, minus any real imagination, minus any kid's involvement, people being hired to put the lights on, and to me its boring and predictable and in some cases way too showy. However, I know to others its probably beautiful and magical and all those things.

Of course because I probably take things way too far beyond the naval contemplation stage, it makes me wonder how conditioned and influenced we all have been from venturing out, having a little fun and do something different and/or off the wall because we are all so busy trying to fit in and look like each other instead of just being ourselves, snoopy lights and all*** Wouldnt it be cool if we actually dug stuff like that?

From my perspective, I absolutely love the fact you guys would be bold enough to lace up those big snoopy lights with pride. And you are bold enough to write about it here. I think I know what you are saying, and I think the snoopy lights is probably exactly what you adore (in other ways) about your hubby* (if you'll pardon me for making a personal observation!*) Likewise your sense of humor is absolutely priceless!

You know what? Yall could actually do a "snoopy house" and put a big Snoopy sleeping on the top. That would be awesome.

Then, my friend, its PAYBACK time.

After he's made you endure a Charles Schultz Christmas, you get to make your house the WHITEST, BRIGHTEST house on the block next year. (You may want to get that in writing from him*)

:)

Anyway thanks for posting and one more thing....

I don't know what it is with guys and those Snoopy bulbs, I think it has to do with growing up and memories. My brother closest to me in age is the same way about those lights. Can't for the life of me figure it out. I think you just helped me a little.

[Sparkly]

29. Thanks shance!

I think the snoopy lights is probably exactly what you adore (in other ways) about your hubby

Exactly right. I must admit, our first Christmas together it WAS a bit of a shock when I came home from shopping and saw *those* lights on the house! ("When you said 'lights,' I didn't think you meant... well...") I've teased him about them ever since. I look for opportunities to say the phrase, "They still make 'em," I hum the theme from Charlie Brown Christmas, I point out how nice and subtle everybody else's white lights are...

They are exactly like him -- bold, funny, colorful, different from the ordinary, (old...).

(And I LOVE your idea for Snoopy on the top of the house! I'm gonna remember that!!) :hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. I'm with Hubby...REAL LIGHTS NOT THOSE WHITE THANGS!

[mattclearing]

26. Divorcing over Christmas lights. Only in America.

eom

[Elidor]

27. Vintage christmas lights!!!

And you have a problem with them?!? iTres cool! You could probably get good money for them on ebay. Those old lights are cool as fuck! Let your freak flag FLY, I say!

[donco6]

28. I LOVE Snoopy lights!

I'm with your husband. Tiny white lights are so sterile, so suburban. Big fat ones, mismatched preferred - that's the ticket!