Warning To Illinois Residents With Outdoor Holiday Decorations

If you're someone in Illinois who puts out decorations for the different holidays throughout the year, I have an important warning for you.

Outdoor Holiday Decoration Warning For Illinois Residents

Ever since I saw the movie, "Christmas Vacation," I wanted to have some sort of crazy holiday display outside my house. We always had a bunch of decorations inside but never outdoors. I thought we should take it to the next level but it just never happened.

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Then a few years ago, my dad passed away a couple of weeks before Christmas. To help cheer me up, my wife and daughter bought a big inflatable Santa to put in our front yard. It put a smile on my face and so it began.

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We keep adding to our outdoor Christmas display every year. My family has also started to include other holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Easter. It's become our thing and we're having a lot of fun while doing it.

Halloween has been really fun because the kids have their parents take pictures of them with our inflatables when they stop by for trick-or-treating. Since our daughter is grown up, it's cute to see the children excited and having fun.

Unfortunately, there's always someone that has to ruin the fun. A thief stole our most popular Halloween inflatable. It was a Frankenstein Minnion. I'm so disappointed. I guess now we'll have to be extra careful with whatever decorations we put out in our yard.

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I've been reading more and more that holiday decorations are getting stolen not just in Rockford but throughout Illinois. I just to give you a heads-up. If you put up outdoor displays, please make sure they're secure so they don't get stolen. If you ask me, stealing from people who are trying to have a good time is bad karma.