I don't care what other people put in their yards. The only one I would even consider buying would be the Mickey one. I don't like to put up stuff that everyone else has. Never did the icicle lights thing...as pretty as they are everyone has them up. My SIL thinks my yard is tacky....she never told me outright, but while looking at ads in the newspaper a store had decorations on sale and she pointed to one of the pictures and said.."when we get into our new house I won't put up any of these tacky decorations at Christmas, I'm doing the clear lights and thats it, the clear lights are so upscale, colored lights are trashy." OK.....I have colored (multi) lights on my tree inside and outside my house, PLUS the picture she pointed at was something I have in my yard! Now it's a big joke, I bought something to put outside and my kids are saying "Oh Mom, that's so tacky..we live in an upscale area, how could you put that up?" Thing is SIL does not live in an upscale area, she lives in one of the oldest sections of the town and it is not all that great of a neighborhood.
and you said you used to live hooksett, what a small world 
I've seen some houses that look absolutely gorgeous with a theme like that, but then everybody and his brother tries to decorate like that, and it just looks boring. We drive past this one upscale neighborhood every Christmas eve to look at lights (we drive all over town) and I think it must be in their HOA to only use white lights because every house looks the same -- but then there's this one house that puts this skinny purple tree in their picture window, which would normally look bizarre, but guess which one we like looking at the best? 
