It’s beginning to look a lot like… ditto?
The holiday lighting craze that had lazy decorators cheering after a suburban Chicago light display went viral has resurfaced once again, this time in Traverse City, Michigan.
According to NBC affiliate WPBN, a house on Woodmere Avenue has resurrected the hilarious holiday craze, putting the word “Ditto” in lights with an arrow pointing to a neighbor’s extravagant light show.
Cathy Wiley said she couldn’t beat her neighbor’s display, so her solution was to “hop on their backs and take the ride for Christmas.”
In 2009, NBC Chicago reported on a home in suburban Elburn that did something similar, and the homeowner said he did it for the same reason.
“Every year [my neighbor] gets bigger and bigger,” Dave Nosek said at the time.
So rather than compete with the shimmering light display that twinkles from neighbor Chet Cybulski's yard, Nosek followed a time-tested maxim: If you can’t beat ‘em, amusingly underperform ‘em.
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Nosek arranged a few twisted sets of Christmas lights above his garage into the word “DITTO” with an arrow pointing toward Cybulski's house.
Images of the two homes immediately went viral and the next year, Ditto copycats started popping up across the country. Nosek has noted that he wasn't the first to come up with the bright idea, but he was the first to have his lighting expose.
