Over 50% of people feel competitive with their neighbors over holiday decorations: survey

You can see it all across America: One person puts up their Christmas decorations, then another person, then another, each with increasingly more lights and wreaths.

If this is something you, reader, have seen, you’re not alone in your observation: A new survey on 2023 holiday decorating trends has found that over half of people feel competitive with their neighbors while decking their halls.

LawnStarter — an online company that “brings you the best lawn services, all at the click of a button” — published this survey to its blog last week based on the responses of randomly selected adults living across the United States.

After receiving answers to three main questions such as which holidays they’re celebrating as well as how many people they may be entertaining at home during them, LawnStarter found a bushel of information, some of which may be obvious.

For example: The majority of respondents (76.2% of them, to be exact) plan on getting Christmas trees as a party of their holiday decorations. Another 67% of them will hang lights, and 62.6% will purchase candles.

There’s also the 52.6% that admit they feel a “sense of competition about decoration for the holidays,” with their neighbors. Only 17.5% were above it all, claiming they felt no competition whatsoever.

Now, some of the more interesting tidbits the survey found was that the third most popular winter holiday people plan on celebrating was the winter solstice, which beat out Hanukah (the fifth most celebrated). Nearly 20% of those who took the survey additionally stated they start decorating for the holidays before Halloween.

Don’t worry, though: 36.6% of respondents stated they think that decorating before Halloween is way too early. The majority of people seem to put up their decorations between Thanksgiving and Nov. 30.