Enter Patch's 'Deck the House' Contest For a Chance to Win $100,000
Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your local school district and $500 to pay your electric bills!
We’re launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s.
If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16.
Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district.
Our contest is right around the corner, so now’s the time to get your holiday decorations out of the attic and “deck” your house.
After all, ‘tis the season.......
Victoria Ranua
10:21 am on Sunday, December 16, 2012
Why is it that you want to glamorize and reward something trite like over-the-top holiday decorations? I truly challenge you to answer that question. I further challenge you. Next summer consider running a similar contest, but for vegetable and fruit gardening. Look for the most over-the-top home vegetable garden and orchard. There is nothing trite about growing your own food your family and your neighbors. Self-reliance and sharing is something we should praise highly. (P.S. I am not talking about flower garden, which has its place, but most home garden flowers were bred for human aesthetic value, and have lost their natural dual purpose of beauty and food for wildlife).