Spoke too soon - more houses just went roadkill decorating (spectacular xmas lighting/ornaments/xmas objects) - late in the season this year for a couple of residences but they've indicated all year they're so slammed with the great economy (2nd/3rd generation business owners and 2 younger families/new businesses - amazing!) they can't keep up.
Malls so busy here. We have a strip full of malls, the high end - we were rated second-best shopping in world behind Rome, Italy, before the country's recession/Obama depression here and Carter/liberal triple digit inflation housing horror that crippled latter part of the Bush term - in addition to normal malls of most cities. You can't find a parking space - always the case around here/any holiday. This has been going on for month of December. Local restaurants packed. Plenty of clerks and extra checkouts. Fed Ex/UPS trucks taking up roadways - it's an awesome economy and people are traveling, spending money and living the good life again.
Capitalism at its best!