Outdoor Christmas decorating ..as a company business

[shootingstar]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/christmas-lights-decoration-tips-install-1.5808468

I had no clue such a company exists locally! Yes, it can get very cold and icy to do such a job around people's homes outside.  They got a roster of 800+ clients. https://www.facebook.com/True-North-Christmas-Lights-149404898450310/videos/we-have-all-new-lighting-options-available-this-year-featuring-our-brand-new-pre/986355351725953/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos

[petitepedal ★]

It is big $$$$$...We are paying something like 3 grand for 1 larger..but not huge pine..3 smaller pines..icicle lights on the portico and 4 or 5 small  naked trees...Saves on old people breaking bones.

[shootingstar]

57 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

It is big $$$$$...We are paying something like 3 grand for 1 larger..but not huge pine..3 smaller pines..icicle lights on the portico and 4 or 5 small  naked trees...Saves on old people breaking bones.

I had no idea, petite.  Glad the lights brighten up things there.

[Kirby]

A lot of the local landscaping companies will do decorations (and snow clearing) in winter.    Luckily I can put my little color changing snowman on the kitchen window shelf all by myself.

[Ralphie ★]

4 hours ago, Kirby said:

A lot of the local landscaping companies will do decorations (and snow clearing) in winter.    Luckily I can put my little color changing snowman on the kitchen window shelf all by myself.

Ahhh, gotta love KISS. 

[petitepedal ★]

Our folks (at work) fundraise for this project every year..my friend Melody who lives there..and is fine financially...asked why this was a yearly thing...(they suggest a $15 donation per apt)..I said it isn't about buying the lights..it is about paying someone to put them up and take them down!

[maddmaxx ★]

This whole concept just hit our local news today.  Even Home Depot is getting into the act.  The prices range from a fixed $200 to variable depending on the size of your house and the size of the desired display.  I guess that the virus has created a whole bunch of free lance companies providing services as needed.

[team scooter]

I worked for a Chicago landscape company for thirty years. Inside and outside Christmas decorations was always huge. HUGE! Like millions of dollars annually huge. My phone's memory card recently failed, but I had pictures of hundreds of huge, decorated artificial Christmas trees, sleighs, etc, etc filling up a warehouse. In November my crews and I would switch from planting trees to installing the tiny white twinkle lights on all the trees along Michigan ave. We had to have them finished and plugged in by Thanksgiving. After that, we installed the plows/salting equipment on the trucks and concentrated on snow removal until spring.

[Razors Edge ★]

It's a tiny, minuscule niche market, but it certainly has a time and place.  In this gig economy and capitalizing on TV shows focused around it, holiday decorating - especially Halloween and x-mas - is something people have grown to enjoy and expect.  Each year, folks need to do "a little more", and soon it becomes a process needing professional help

We all remember the Christmas Vacation decorating or the Christmas Story decorating.  Charlie Brown did it.  My granddad had a fullsize Santa that rotated and waved.  It's just cheaper and easier to go big these days.

[maddmaxx ★]

21 minutes ago, team scooter said:

I worked for a Chicago landscape company for thirty years. Inside and outside Christmas decorations was always huge. HUGE! Like millions of dollars annually huge. My phone's memory card recently failed, but I had pictures of hundreds of huge, decorated artificial Christmas trees, sleighs, etc, etc filling up a warehouse. In November my crews and I would switch from planting trees to installing the tiny white twinkle lights on all the trees along Michigan ave. We had to have them finished and plugged in by Thanksgiving. After that, we installed the plows/salting equipment on the trucks and concentrated on snow removal until spring.

I had no idea that this market even existed.  

[Razors Edge ★]

2 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

I had no idea that this market even existed.  

You likely, over the years, have visited many places - from hotels to large corporate office building lobbies to "Main Street  USA" displays - where those things are often done by a business, not the hotel, corporation, or municipality.  Now, it is just trickling to the private market more as folks want it for their homes too.

[maddmaxx ★]

1 minute ago, Razors Edge said:

You likely, over the years, have visited many places - from hotels to large corporate office building lobbies to "Main Street  USA" displays - where those things are often done by a business, not the hotel, corporation, or municipality.  Now, it is just trickling to the private market more as folks want it for their homes too.

Yuppie heaven.

[team scooter]

1 hour ago, maddmaxx said:

I had no idea that this market even existed.  

We took care of most of a few blocks of Michigan ave, from the Wrigley Building north. This was from 2018, and I stopped working there in 2016. But I'll bet its still me amigo's handy work.

 

 

[petitepedal ★]

Oh Man @team scooter. I could use you the week after Thanksgiving..actually since you are a pro..2 days..3 max

[Razors Edge ★]

16 minutes ago, petitepedal said:

Oh Man @team scooter. I could use you the week after Thanksgiving..actually since you are a pro..2 days..3 max

Yuppieville!

[petitepedal ★]

4 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Yuppieville!

Nope..Geezerville

[maddmaxx ★]

There is a difference between commercial building decorating and private home decorating.  It appears that some yuppies don't understand that in the search for one upping the Jones family.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, maddmaxx said:

There is a difference between commercial building decorating and private home decorating.  It appears that some yuppies don't understand that.

Where does "yuppies" come in to this story?  I'd put more faith in it being a suburban or even a suburban/rural boundary thing.  But that's me.  I'd also err towards middle aged demographics???  But that's more based on the folks in the Christmas display TV shows.

[maddmaxx ★]

8 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Where does "yuppies" come in to this story?  I'd put more faith in it being a suburban or even a suburban/rural boundary thing.  But that's me.  I'd also err towards middle aged demographics???  But that's more based on the folks in the Christmas display TV shows.

[Razors Edge ★]

10 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

You don't think it is mostly in the suburbs? Or even the outer burbs where folks have the bigger homes and yards that they can fill up with christmas stuff?  I doubt a loft in Soho really has much space to display much more than a 2' mini-tree and maybe a wreath or candle in a window.

[maddmaxx ★]

3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

You don't think it is mostly in the suburbs? Or even the outer burbs where folks have the bigger homes and yards that they can fill up with christmas stuff?  I doubt a loft in Soho really has much space to display much more than a 2' mini-tree and maybe a wreath or candle in a window.

Thus the stereotype word "yuppie".