British Couple Reacts to 8 BEST AMERICAN CHRISTMAS HOUSE LIGHTS! | WOW

[@TheBeesleys99]

Millie's Instagram is - milliegoaziou She will be posting on her story and uploading pictures of our time away over the next few weeks!

[@OEverettC]

Most houses that play music have a radio transmitter on their property. You pull up in your car and turn your car radio to a certain station and you'll be able to hear the music/ audio that the house is transmitting. Houses normally have a sign somewhere on what radio station to put on in your car. You'll get a music/ light show in your car without the neighbors being bothered with noise.

[@annep.1905]

They probably don't have as much money as you think.

[@annep.1905]

And yes, some of these massive displays do have music. They can, however, turn off the entire display with one switch, and they probably do after certain hours.

[@roundone7954]

There's people that synchronize lights to music In a neighborhood about 20 minutes from our house. There's a radio station they suggest you turn your radio to in your cars. There is big signs posted before you get in the neighborhood telling you what station to turn to.Some also play the music outdoors until 10 o'clock.

[@conquestmomma]

There are videos out there that you could react to, that Mille can learn how they actually put the displays together ❤ Happy Christmas to you Reacting Legends 🙌 🎄 🌟

[@OEverettC]

Most houses that play music have a radio transmitter on their property. You pull up in your car and turn your car radio to a certain station and you'll be able to hear the music/ audio that the house is transmitting. Houses normally have a sign somewhere on what radio station to put on in your car. You'll get a music/ light show in your car without the neighbors being bothered with noise.

[@myrnafields2075]

Yes, quite right. I was just going to post the same comment. You beat me to it. You can usually tell which houses have their lights synchronized to music even if you can't hear it.

[@narutohinata9253]

What this person said I was going to say that too

[@ithilnin123]

Ditto

[@dillodefense]

^^^This!

[@Arcusfp1]

Yes it is a low level transmitter that might reach a few hundred feet. So the FM signal is kept very local. The newest tech is in individually addressable LEDs. Those really open up all sorts of special effects. Hang a curtain of LEDs, and you have a low resolution TV screen.

[@cindyleger351]

There was a family in my home town that owned several acres just outside of town. One year their very young daughter, I think she was somewhere around 8 or 9, came down with cancer and had just a short time to live. Her parents decided to fill their acreage with as many lights and decorations as they could to give her one last extraordinary Christmas. After she died, they continued to put the decorations out in her honor. People from everywhere came to see them. All the children loved it.

[@patricialiedel5659]

What a beautiful way to honor her memory!

[@monarnyc]

Where I live also someone became sick but thank goodness they recovered. But every year the house is highly decorated with. Christmas music playing the

[@robinmills8675]

Driving around looking at lights one year I saw a house that was beautifully decorated. Their next door neighbor had one display. It was a sign that just said "Ditto" with an arrow pointing towards the beautiful house.

[@billy3228]

Fun fact: Some houses in the US rent out radio stations for when people drive by they can change the radio station in the car and listen to the music match up with the lights. My family and I use to go out every year looking at all the lights for hours on days. This year hopefully we will be able to get back out their a bit and enjoy the lights once more. Great video

[@jilliant.4550]

The music is played outside, but will have specific times only. The lights ARE synchronized to the music.

[@RelaireTatsu]

They aren’t all outside it’s through a radio station. People can rent or set up radio signals that you can tune into while in your car and it plays it. If you go to the 4th one I think the one with the guy explaining at the very beginning they show a sign that has a FM station on it

[@alicesmith7020]

It all depends on your city regulations as to what times you can play your music. It's pretty laid back in our town. We can play the music all the way up till midnight. As far as I know, nobody's ever complained, at least not yet.

[@jilliant.4550]

@@RelaireTatsu cool, I knew some of the drive through ones were like that, I've never been to a house one that they had set up like that. But as big as some of these are, it doesn't surprise me. Thanks.

[@jilliant.4550]

@@Sudas80 that sounds like such a fun thing to do. I bet you would be the hit of the neighborhood.

[@tdm3301]

@@jilliant.4550 My sis in law has a neighbor that does both. The music is transmitted to radio and played live at a moderate volume.

[@rene14slhs]

There was a tv show called "The Great Christmas Light Fight" that showcased extreme christmas displays all across the United states of America. This is a tv show series you should check out.

[@shercahn]

That's actually where most of these if not all are from.

[@gwgux]

Yes, those lights are synchronized to music and yes the music is played outside. It's definitely a thing that gets done over here. Some houses also do a light show for Halloween, and then they reset for Christmas. That is typically all done by the owners of the house on their own. There's no professional service for putting up lights that I'm aware of and it's common place for neighbors and friends to help with the setup. If anything they may have an electrician come out and help with the electrical wiring so they don't keep tripping breakers for it.

[@FirstNameLastName-wt5to]

Growing up our neighbors hired people. We were invited to a tree decorating party. Turned out we were there to watch the help put up the lights and tree and decorate it. Really bizarre.

[@krayzy932]

There are definitely companies that do this in most mid-sized and above cities in the U.S.. Most are done by the homeowners though.

[@Dr.Spatula]

Never seen one where the music was played outside. The music is broadcast via radio

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Where I live,in Bayonne New Jersey some house owners hired to devoted their houses.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

@@Dr.Spatula Early on when this first became a "thing" there were some but they did it only at specific times so as not to annoy the neighbors.

[@maryannashenfelder5513]

It's common to have Christmas decorations. And also,to drive around and see every one s decorations!! Young or old,it's a wonderful time of the year!! Love it!!

[@PrettyDeadThings]

Light display's that elaborate can on average take between 4 to 6 months of planning, and then it's usually a month or 2 of setting the lights up and doing test runs. There are light displays so over the top that it takes about 9 months to get everything figured out and up and running, and they'll normally start planning in Jan/Feb just to have it up by Thanksgiving or December 1st. As for the music, most places in the USA have noise ordinance laws and so you can start playing loudish music at around 8am, and you have to stop between 9pm and 11pm (depending on where you live) before the cops come. Average monthly bills for light shows range between $600 to $2000+ (depending on how many lights used, and electricity costs in your area)

[@tHEdANKcRUSADER]

Definitely a traditional thing in America to go and see your local Crazy Christmas House, some cities even hand out road maps that show you which houses to see in that city

[@garretthorsch8143]

We take the Christmas decorations seriously here lol. Halloween in recent years is being taken just as seriously. Thanksgiving is sort of like that but less lights

[@xJamesLaughx]

Yep to the point where it actually becomes a competition between neighbors as to who can outdo the others each year lol.

[@abrqzx]

Let me tell you Christmas in the Philippines is even more happier and decorative than in the U.S. Christmas season here starts on September until January. All of houses have their own Christmas decorations inside and outside of their houses

[@blankmike4613]

@@abrqzx Yes, I was 1986 X-mas in Philippines. Wow, and I'm from LA. So cool.

[@TabbyQ.9563]

We used to set up a winter wonderland, ice and snow theme for Christmas. Now we just do Halloween. Massive numbers of spiders off all sizes and skeletons. I like to keep a theme. We get tons of compliments from parents with there trick or treaters. It's nice to be appreciated for your efforts.

[@krystalcook1317]

Funny you mentioned Halloween. Our mayor has officially changed the name of our town from October 1-31 to Halloween. They even changed the banners from Conway to Halloween. All the trees downtown have hundreds of plastic pumpkins. Every year Conway sc is adding more activities for October.

[@RockyNikolashin]

Some houses play the music outside, while others have you turn to a radio frequency that plays the music in your car, which helps when it's snowing a lot outside. Many homeowners do their own lighting work and planning. Some neighborhoods compete with other neighborhoods to see who has the best lighting, so it's not uncommon to have a line of cars slowly driving through neighborhoods. We usually make a night of it driving around.

[@random40s]

I always dig light shows. There are many that are animated, and with music, also some from Halloween are amazing.

[@rene14slhs]

There is a show called the great christmas light fight that shows many different outrageously christmas houses. You should watch.

[@revtoyota]

I would love to see you both react to the Budweiser Christmas commercials. They are known as some of the best ever produced commercials. The houses with moving lights usually have music playing the lights sync to. Definitely do more Christmas light videos there are far better ones out there.

[@megswedeb7234]

The Clydesdale horses are the best!

[@abrahambaker5085]

Coke bears also

[@rebelamanda]

Yaaassss!! Good call!

[@jenniferhoffpauir1048]

All the Budwizer commercials are great. The ones for the superbowl and Christmas are incredible.

[@daniellemay9481]

Oh my gosh! YES! Great Idea!

[@sallyintucson]

There’s a whole neighborhood in my city that does this every year. The electric company helps hang the lights and to visit, people donate food to the local food bank. It’s been a tradition since the “50’s!

[@angelamiller6275]

That's pretty awesome!

[@darrinlindsey]

Yes, there are some that are synchronized to music. There's one large neighborhood about 20 miles for me, that has the music broadcast on a radio station. So cars tune into the music that the lights are synchronized to.

[@mysticsite]

I love getting in the car and finding houses with Christmas lights. I love that they are everywhere. I just have them on the trim of my house. So yes you need a ladder or two. Yet their are homes that pay for a company to make a light display. Most people with big displays have Christmas music playing outside. No matter what the news tells you, we love Christmas light displays!!!

[@col8682]

Can you see our show “The Great Christmas Light Fight”? You would be blown away. Music usually is played on the radio -they have a special station you set your radio to in order to hear the lights going with the music. It’s popular to have the lights synched to music if you are going all out.

[@heidibigelow2278]

In Michigan we have a town that has the largest Christmas store that Millie would love love. It is an amazing town named Frankenmuth. You should check it out. Happy holidays to you both.

[@justanotherwhitegirla7093]

Bronner's if I remember correctly.

[@debbiecantwell7739]

I go to Bronner’s every year. Definitely worth a trip.

[@bethshadid2087]

They have one here in Georgia in Helen which is a alpine village place in the mountains.

[@jaseaustin991]

Regarding the music playing, I’ve heard of houses that broadcast their music on a weak radio signal, so people could listen to it through their car radio when they drive by

[@patriciatownsend]

As a child, about a week before Christmas my family would drive to an area where most of the neighborhood decorated their homes and just look at all the lights.

[@EthanM317-]

There is so much land space in the US that it is common to have large plots of land and large homes that are far cheaper than other places around the world (assuming you’re not in a city) but that’s why some of these houses seem so large or have so much land. They’re not necessarily rich, it’s just more common to have more space in the US

[@newgrl]

Yep. For the heck of it, I went looking and found a 2700 sq ft (250 sq m) 4 bed/2 bath house on 62 acres of land for $350,000 in West Texas (which is where this guy said he was from). So, you can definitely be solidly middle class and still own land in the US.

[@TT-js4jn]

@@newgrl wow that's a good deal. It's like 250 to 350 thousand for just a house. All that land wow! That would be too cool. Unfortunately I can't afford to PAY attention. Lol

[@Woodchuck1965]

If you go to the right part of the US you can get a really nice house on a good amount of acreage for what you pay for a two bedroom apartment in NY or San Francisco.

[@willielarimer7170]

Check out McCadinville NC, the whole town lights up for Christmas, and people drive through to look at the lights, they also put Christmas lights on Nascar track in Concord Nc

[@allansisson355]

It's all about the kids reactions, Christmas Wonderland

[@LancerX916]

My friend does his house up every year. He started just putting things in his yard but then the houses on each side of him now let him put stuff in their yards aswell. Like 4 blocks of home owners around him come to see the display every year.

[@myowndrum286]

We have an area in the city close to me that has had a Christmas tradition for over 50 years. It's called Candycane Lane. No vehicles are allowed on those 3 blocks during Christmas. It's a lovely walk. Everyone comes with donations for the food bank as there are barrels sitting around everywhere for you to donate them in.

[@jenniferward8902]

From what I understand, it takes sometimes months to set these displays up. Someone in a local neighborhood did a huge set up and they started in October, and they had around a quarter of an acre to decorate. I remember, as a kid, we would take drives to certain neighborhoods at Christmas time to just look at the lights. It made good family memories.

[@vickiz6076]

Other shows with great light displays ….”Outrageous Holiday Homes” and “The Great Christmas Light Fight” (this one you can see how they do it) There are other really good ones too

[@smylyface]

The music does get played outside and the lights are synchronized to move with the songs. Most people do their own decorations. Sometimes neighborhoods will work together and synchronize their streets to the same songs so as you drive through to view the lights you aren't bombarded with noise from different songs playing. Neighborhoods have contests to try and outdo each other. It's a lot of fun!

[@emmef7970]

The majority of people that do over the top Christmas displays are not wealthy. As the Texas man stated people start collecting pieces and lights and over time build up huge stores of decorations over the years. What is most costly is the electricity. And people plan all year for this event and have ways of having a budget for the temporary displays. Ive lived in neighborhoods where every house is lit up and people come from all over the city and neighboring cities to drive by with their families and look at the houses. It's a yearly holiday event for many families, couples, etc. Not one of those houses is owned by a wealthy person. These are just people that are passionate about their hobby & making people smile & happy during the Christmas season.

[@diannecardenas9866]

There are lighting companies that do this and are very busy around the holidays.

[@josephsoto9933]

Most communities have home Christmas light competitions and maps of competing neighborhoods where you can drive thru to see. Most people do their own (a pride thing) but there are people who will install (students earning holiday money). I lived in Washington state and Maryland, so a lighted house is VERY beautiful in the snow (bright and reflective).

[@usmadgirl3074]

Most people do their own decorating because they know they'll do it the way they want it & do it right! These people start decorating months before Christmas! It's a LOT of work, especially the musical, synchronized light shows. 🥰 Merry Christmas Beesley & Milllie!

[@ashleyshayday1526]

Yes we take decorating the outside of our homes with fantastic lights for both Halloween and Christmas very seriously and we always try to go for bigger and better next year if possible. Now as nice as these are I've seen even more impressive ones in person... And it's fun to get in a family van with the kids and in laws and go look at Christmas lights as we all sip on home made hot chocolate and listen to Christmas music and sing along to them... The music is played outside and the lights are synchronized with the music. But people will usually turn off the music if they have close neighbors and it starts to get late. There is no professional person we call to put up our lights. Everyone here especially in the south, I live here in Alabama, we make things, fixes things and do things all on our own. Now sometimes they have friends and family or neighbors join them in helping put up the lights outside. But no, all that hard work is mainly done by the owners and whoever is kind enough to lend a hand. That would just be plain lazy to have somebody come out and decorate your house for you. And I for one enjoy decorating for Christmas and it is even more fun if you have some help. But yes they get on their ladders and get it done.

[@elizabethjennings9316]

There is an American show called The Great Light Fight. The show is a Christmas light competition. It shows you how they put up the display, then it shows the finished product.😁

[@wandakalebaugh9465]

They can either have the music playing or they can set it up through the radio. They transmit and have a sign that tells you what channel to listen to in your car. The radio station is usually when it's a whole neighborhood that gets involved

[@joeysturgeon6426]

The music is on a.m. radio that is weakly broadcast from the person's house so you can listen in your cars radio

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

I'm sure there are people who hire it done, but most take pride in doing it themselves. These light displays are pretty common over here. We have a couple neighborhoods in town where the whole street is decorated and the tradition is to take your children out to see the lights.

[@ashleighnichole8197]

The lights synchronized to music are so, so popular here now. Just where I live there are dozens and dozens of houses we can go to that have done this. It's definitely awesome!! Oh and like others have said, the music is transmitted via radio in your car.

[@davidterry6155]

In various cities around the country you’ll find a street or town that competes with the best displays. Portland Oregon: Peacock Lane Rocklin Calif: Pebble Creek Orangevale Calif: Dove Court Texas Town: Windcrest the entire town competes with $$ prizes. It is a big fundraiser too. Usually extremely popular lights displays always have a charity component to them as well

[@rene14slhs]

My local mall has a tree lighting ceremony, that does a 15 minute animated christmas light display every day, on the hour from 6p.m. to 9p.m.

[@mainjedi]

In many of the medium to large towns and cities of all sizes, there are usually whole neighborhoods who sync up and decorate both sides of a street. It could reach a mile or so long. Folks come for a walk through and some will drive it, traffic is usually organized. Depending on the town there may be a fee per vehicle or donations are encouraged! There were two in my city, one donation and the other was 2$ a vehicle. Drove my kids there every year until they could drive me.

[@theoneandonlyCatseye]

That would be cool to see. I've never seen neighborhoods that lit up before. The smallest town I lived in was population 4,000 and the largest 60,000. Most of the houses that have lots of lights are either big expensive houses like most of the ones in this video or just people who collect and grow their collection through the years. I've been to big light displays you can walk through put on by towns themselves, but I've never seen one at someone's private residence before. Most of the videos I see where people from other countries react to what the U.S. is like tend to leave out most people's reality and only show what people with more money have or what those neighborhoods look like. There is such a huge difference here between the standard of living depending on what tax bracket you fall into. Working class people never seem to get included in these videos even though they make up the majority of the country. These videos also tend to only talk about life in cities or suburbs in metropolitan areas. I don't ever see people make videos about what most small and medium towns are like. I feel like people in other countries get a false sense of what life is really like in the states. I think that's one of the reasons why there is quite a bit of shock when people move here.

[@brithas]

Yes they’re synchronized to music and some people start in November just starting to get the decorations up. It’s that many decorations and lights.

[@scottyferris4377]

Christmas lights like this always make me think of the movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" . Great classic Christmas movie. I have scene houses that have a FM radio transmitter set to a designated frequency so when people drive by if they put the radio in their car to that frequency the music will play in the car radio.

[@the_Real_Grammy_of_6]

Some cities/towns have entire neighborhoods that decorate each house with lights, inflatables etc. I loved taking my 4 kids - now adults - to see every single neighborhood. I miss those days with my kids still in awe of seeing the houses all bright and beautiful.

[@jddanzig9019]

Killin it with the uploads 🤘

[@millie0804]

We’re really enjoying it!

[@noelcatanzaro3405]

It's a very popular family activity , a few days leading up to Christmas. To load the whole family up in the car and drive around local neighborhoods and look at all the lights. Driving slow and pulling over to enjoy them all.

[@rene14slhs]

The displays don't have to cost a lot; some of them are hand made and somewhat cheap; but full of love, creativity, and holiday spirit.

[@ElizabethSampson]

They would have a time limit to turn off the music and lights if they lived in a neighborhood or no one would be able to sleep. Some of the synchronized light displays tell you what station to turn into to hear the music if you are driving by in a car.

[@Jaybullz34]

If you want to see more displays like these I'd suggest trying to find episodes of "The Great Christmas Light Fight"! Its a show that's on before Christmas and people compete against each other with their Christmas light display around the U.S.!! I believe you guys would love it!! Happy Holidays and blessing to you and your families!!

[@sparklesmcsparticus1462]

Most of the time when people have music synchronized with the lights, there is a radio station that plays the music. You listen to it in the car. Also, if you happened to have walked up, there is a speaker where you can push a button to listen. We have a family just up the road (different neighborhood), who puts on a HUGE light show for the community. It is crazy amazing with approximately 5 songs. Children love it. They work with their neighbors concerning all the traffic this annual event invites to an otherwise very quiet neighborhood.

[@leroybrown8812]

Absolutely. Most displays use a low power FM transmitter like those that you would use to connect your phone to your car radio via blue tooth.

[@nicolehamilton1495]

You should check out the ABC show 'The Great Christmas Light Fight'. It has more houses decorated and tells you a little bit about how they did it.

[@jLutraveling]

A few miles from where I live is a Christmas display that is over the top with synchronized music. There is sign telling you the radio station to tune your radio to.

[@lane6866]

I've never heard of someone hiring someone to do their lights. That being said, I'm sure it's been done somewhere. But the average Americans hang their own lights. Neighbors might help each other but most people just do their own. Someone like the Texas guy with almost a full scale attraction might get volunteers from the community, but I'm willing to bet he's doing at least some of it himself.

[@a00141799]

I agree. Much of the fun has to be in hanging the lights and placing the decorations yourself. However, that being said, I'm sure that there are people have hired someone to do the work. Especially the work on the roof. Old guys like can climb on roof anymore. Knees are too bad...

[@staceysopha4584]

There are currently signs up around where I live for a company advertising that they hang Christmas lights with their phone number. I think it’s actually a landscaping company that is trying to branch out to other things in their off season. I’m sure there are some people that will take advantage of their services.

[@letsgomets002]

They definitely hire people

[@diannen4225]

They do it for the children and the neighbor hood. Check out Christmas lights to music. You will get a LOT!

[@eMemoryCard]

They are all synchronized to music. What times the music plays and how late at night the music plays depends on where you are located and how it’s set up. Some neighborhoods have Home Owners Associations (HOA) with rules and regulations and some areas have restrictions. Worse case scenario is a noise violation or Law Enforcement interaction with a warning.

[@lolanelson9634]

We have friends who live in a neighborhood where the entire neighborhood is lit like you see in these houses. They start to decorate in September! There are several neighborhoods that decorate in this way. In most neighborhoods there are several who do this. Even houses that are decorated “modestly “ are beautiful! Usually, people turn off the displays between 8-9. Oh yes, music is playing just as you heard it-loud! I mean , not deafening, but pleasantly loud! It’s so much fun to decorate and enjoy others decorations 🤩🎄🤩!

[@bracejuice7955]

There’s a few houses around where I grew up that would do things like this, there was even a whole street where one house started going bananas, and then the entire street started doing it in what I’m sure was some kind of toxic unhealthy “keeping up with the joneses’’ situation. People would drive in and look at everything, but if you did you could see how cheap the various pieces were. Tons of duct tape and cardboard, so it’s definitely not that expensive! The electricity bill on the other hand…

[@leslie8743]

In our town you put your radio on a certain station and the lights matches the music. It's incredible.

[@Bearfacts01]

Fulfilling children's dreams is magical for everyone and so much fun.

[@EagleMacCassady]

The synchronized displays have local radio station frequencies so you can listen to the music in your car, but they also play outside of the house so people walking by can hear the music.

[@Prozak63]

It often becomes a neighborhood rivalry to out do your neighbors. 🥳 And they are synchronized to the music through a computer. And often broadcast on low power radio station.

[@suppershadow1]

I grew up in the suburbs of Long Island it was block after block of houses like these,people in ny really love decorating for Christmas the whole island becomes a drive through light show lol

[@brittneygaines4709]

I think most people do that kind of stuff because Parents will take the kids around to see the Christmas lights. Especially the little kids. They get so excited about it it’s great fun and great memories.

[@kmking1986]

The ones that are synced to music are usually playing a Christmas music radio station. They also usually have music quietly playing in the yard.

[@hudsonsgamingchannel334]

The music, the lights are all synchronized. Most of the people who’d this are doing it themselves not hiring. It’s crazy fun for them. They get their families involved.

[@rene14slhs]

The music is either played out in the street from a certain time frame or on the families radio broadcast network (some tech that figures out what local radio stations aren't being used by big radio station companies).

[@patriciapalmer1377]

My brother has an enormous one in LA shown on the news every year, cars line up for miles to drive by, the music changes with the lights, its updated every day, the neighbors volunteer for tours, as its interactive, and it's 2 months in set up and breakdown, stored in a warehouse.

[@gweno550]

The house with the music is nice There are some people who have techno music and fast flashing lights that annoy everyone. You can use companies who set up displays. But people like to do it themselves also and if its a lot of lights and lawn and roof fixtures they have to start set up as early as September

[@Gutslinger]

My parents, siblings, and I used to often drive around the countryside all night in the late 90's-early 2000's, looking at all of the crazy Christmas light decorations people had. We, or my mom in particular, would refer to them as "pretties" to us kids, and my baby brother. One particular family memory is when my mom happened to be in a bad mood about something, and without much thought, she accidentally said, "Look at those f*cking pretties" as she pointed out Christmas lights to my baby brother. We still jokingly reference it now and again. Lol

[@yarnangel52]

When I lived in Paradise, California before the Camp Fire, there was a house that was so decorated. You would drive up and park, Then turn your radio to a special channel. As it played music the lights danced to the music..it was amazing

[@gmunden1]

Some people start setup in September because of the work involved but it is not operational until usually the day after Thanksgiving. The electric cost can be astronomical. The people who decorate to this extent typically plan the design on paper up to a year in advance. Some of the houses are owned by electricians who know how to set this up without setting their house ablaze. LOL

[@sherylholder7703]

We use to do this when we were younger. My husband would dress up like Santa and I was Mrs Claus. We would hand out Candycanes to everyone that came by. We would start decorating November 1st. And start lighting everything up on my birthday the 13th of December until the new year. My husband and I hung all the lights ourselves. We played Christmas music over speakers, but only from 7-8 when Santa was out giving Candy away and getting everyone’s lists for Christmas. It was our gift to our community.

[@jonesgang]

Most use FM transmitters to broadcast the sound. You tune into the specified station on the radio and listen to the music. That way you are not disturbing anyone with noise. But the flashing lights can get a bit much. Chances are their neighbors have black out shades on the windows.

[@bamBam-ui9wn]

My neighbor does this every year!! The music is set up to play outside but it’s computerized!! He lights up our whole neighborhood!! I swear NASA can see him from above!! Some people really get into it and some just enjoy seeing other peoples display!! My favorite time of year!!!

[@erinnswan7063]

When your kid it is wonderful. We would ride around and look at the lights. It is a great memory.

[@rj-zz8im]

She people here begin putting up the lights wll before Halloween. It's certainly a passion! It brings many people joy, so I love it all.

[@cmneises1]

Usually the homeowners do their own lights and have amazing systems to runs the sounds and light sequences it’s amazing

[@MelNel5]

The great big elaborate homes are typically done by professionals. There is no possible way that one family can do all this. Beautiful video guys. 🎄🎅

[@kindune2112]

Professional Christmas decorators is a big business.

[@mh_golfer]

I enjoy driving around through neighborhoods and looking at the lights with my girlfriend. Kind of became a Christmas tradition.

[@johnspikes8102]

The music is usually broadcast on specific radio frequencies that are posted. You can hear them from your car's radio.

[@kayevans1720]

We have a State Park in Logan, WV that has miles of lights and you can drive through the park in your car. It’s a tradition in our house at Thanksgiving we all pile into our vehicles and make the journey to see the lights. It’s absolutely beautiful, will definitely get you in the Christmas spirit. Merry Christmas from Almost Heaven WV

[@paulgee4336]

She's so cute. And seems like a really nice person. So does he. I hope they are and deserve each other.

[@frankhemmen9551]

I have to admit that back when my children were in their pre-teens, ranging in age from 5 to 10, we lived in a neighborhood where there was a light competition and I lived in the middle of a 4 house nut case. In my house, we had cords running out windows and under garage doors so that when we lit up, we could not turn on a bathroom light without tripping a breaker, but you could read the paper in the front yard at midnight. In all honesty, there was a rumor that our four houses were visible from space. It was hilarious. Everyone loved it and it was based on the season, not just commercial.

[@lgenelle1]

My dad had our house set up with synchronized music that played out of our garage. Played from sunset until 10pm. And yes, we climbed up on ladders to attach the lights to the house!

[@trudiegentry-pears6810]

The music is actually connected to the lights so they flash with the music and most people decorate their own homes.

[@michellesartain8801]

My brother in law starts his lights at Halloween all the way through Xmas..everything is synchronized with his songs and he has a radio station that people tune into to hear the music in their cars, otherwise you cannot hear it..his shows get better and more elaborate every year and he now have a 100+ foot Xmas tree tied into in all

[@Timmycoo]

Had a neighbor who was nuts like this and he played music with his show. People would come around and take pics lol. I am going back there this holiday time so I can't wait to see!

[@joannlandrum6171]

Most homeowner's will install their own lights (simpler in design). However, for the types of displays you're viewing, there are professional light installers who will also design the display for the homeowner.

[@Momsbasement354]

Yeah it can get pretty crazy. It’s fun driving around neighborhoods and seeing all the lights and displays, especially for kids.

[@brandibaby82272]

My Dad does this with his house. It is a computer program that is link with the music. It does play softly but also you can change your car radio to a radio station that links with the music so that you can hear it in your car.

[@drewpamon]

There are people who set up Christmas lights professionally but for people at this level it's really a labor of love. I'm sure most are doing it themselves.

[@ashleighnichole8197]

We have houses right near me that were on that Christmas light fight show. But I guess I never thought about how lucky we are that we can get in the car every Christmas and go look at endless amazing houses with just jaw dropping light displays!!

[@SAGE_Dust]

We actually gather up & ride around neighborhoods to look at the Christmas Lights & decorations at Christmas time here... it’s fun !

[@angelamiller6275]

It was definitely a thing when I was growing up, to drive around looking at Christmas lights.

[@diannadavis1362]

Decorating for Halloween is also a huge thing in the US. There is a big Victorian style home in Kenova , WV that has dozens of volunteers come every year to carve thousands of pumpkins for the display. Last year there was 3000 carved pumpkins in their lighted display.

[@denisemarcus5633]

Most people do their own lights and its easy to sync the music and lights. There are kits.

[@nikolatovar9884]

My neighbor directly across the street from me is something of a mix between houses 3, 6 and 7. The lights are synchronized to the music that plays on a local radio station (nothing but Christmas music 24/7). You can hear it softly, but it's really meant for people to play in their cars as they watch. It is stunning and he won for best in the county last year. We watch him put it up every year and he does it all by himself. He usually has it all up within a week, including new elements he creates himself every year. Me and the SO really enjoy it because we get front row seats every night to something people come from miles around to see. And no, we don't bother to put any up - just a wee light that slowly transitions from green to red over the front porch. He is extremely courteous and It's all on a timer, with the music/light sequencing turning off at about 10:30pm and everything off before midnight.