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You Control The Lights.. use your mouse to turn on the sections of the house.
In 2007 we had over 63,000 teal and pink Outdoor Christmas Lights, including almost 200 "blow mold" characters, two dozen "blow ups", some of them 15 feet high, and a train large enough for a child to ride for our Christmas light display. The roof alone has over 10,000 lights that run off of two computers on a dedicated 60 Amp sub panel. Every night I change/replace between 100 and 150 light bulbs to keep everything "burning bright"
Many of these items are no longer made, and sell on the Internet for hundreds of dollars. Our insurance company estimated retail replacement value is over $75,000.00, but many of the items are just not replaceable. That may be the reason that we have added more and more security cameras every year. With the 16 cameras we have now, I can see the happy face of every person who comes by, as well as read the license plate on their car. And we get allot of cars, over 1,000 just the first night. Did I mention that we had over 1,351 "walk-ups" that night? I know because of all the free soft pretzels, juice boxes, and bottled water we handed out. It's kind of a neighborhood tradition to get things rolling. When I first started doing this, I was one of only three houses in the neighborhood that put up lights, now my entire street is literally lit up like a Christmas tree.
I have many friends and family who put in countless hours to help, including My better half Liana, our 6 and 7 year old girls Angelina and Hailey, My 77 year old father Carmen Dispirito, my former Father-in-law Roger Baker, my good friends Bobbert and Ray, as well as the many members of the Holmes family and the Gable Family, and Santa Claus himself, who can be found in my driveway almost every night handing out full size candy canes to children of all ages. Last year he gave out almost 5,000, stop and get one! Merry Christmas - Neil See the in depth interview with Neil at Crazylightguy.com
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The whole thing took about six (6) weeks to set up, was first lit on Saturday December 8th 2006 at 6:00 PM, and will be on every night until Friday January 4th at Midnight. Every night a differnt young child comes to push the button on our wireless remote to turn on the lights. I don't have exact calculations for this year yet, but last year we were pulling 198.3 Amps on leg A of our 200 amp electrical service, and 198.5 on leg B.
This is our 15th Christmas putting on the 
In the 15 years of doing this, I have never entered the Christmas decorating contest, never accepted a donation, and turned down several corporate sponsorships. We don't have a collection box, but we refer people to donate to the 
