Like RED333 our house can't really be seen from the road. A few years ago I put up solar powered rope LEDs under the front porch banister so we could use the front porch after dark without turning on extra lights. I leave them on year around. A day or so after Thanksgiving I switch them to twinkle mode for Christmas till New Years, then back to full on. That's about all the Christmas decorating we have done some years. Depends if family is coming or not. We have red boa that gets put around a bear statue at the end of the drive most years but it got blown away last year and I don't know if my wife will find a new one
