God Bless The Ohio Family That Decorates Their House With 25,000 Lights Just Like Clark Griswold's House Every Christmas Season
ABC- If you’re looking for a “fun, old-fashioned family Christmas,” head over to the Osterland’s in Wadsworth, Ohio. For six seasons now, Greg Osterland, 37, has been decorating his home in 25,000 lights. The bright, festive look was inspired by the Osterlands’ favorite holiday film, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” Osterland said his love for all-things Griswold began after the 1989 release of the flick, and continued throughout his marriage to his wife Rachel. The couple even went house-hunting with the requirement that whatever they bought must suit Griswold-inspired decor.
Stringing the lights onto all 360 degrees of the house takes weeks. The Osterlands start in October with family, friends and neighbors all lending a hand.
It’s that time, Christmas time is here, and the Osterland family has officially won the Best Christmas House from now until forever with their 250 stands of lights, 100 bulbs per strand, for a grand total of 25,000 imported Chinese twinkle lights! Fuck the houses doing light shows with a full rock concert or all those inflatable Christmas decorations that somehow work via some sort of sorcery my simple mind cannot comprehend. The Osterlands literally choosing their house based on it being the perfect replica to pay homage to the greatest Christmas family by dousing their house in a lumniary bukakke is more impressive than any of the engineering feats those Christmas hardos with bigger budgets and brains can do. And not only do you have a house covered in an absolute preposterous number of lights with a fake Clark W. reliving his Eureka moment along with Saint Nick and his reindeer, but the inside is apparently dressed to the nines in National Lampoon’s shit too.
The interior of Osterland’s home is decorated in handmade props that mimic scenes from “Christmas Vacation” including Aunt Bethany’s Jello mold, an oversized tree, a faux squirrel and more.
It’s one thing to blanket your house with lights. It’s quite another to buy a tree 3 sizes too big, find the obscure toy that cousin Eddie broke, buy those moose glasses that I know are overpriced as fuck, and dress up like Clark when he’s in the attic rewatching black and white home movies from the 50s back when Large was a toddler. You could purchase the silver tuna house from Home Alone for a couple million, decorate it exactly like those big wig McAllisters did during Christmas season and even recreate the fake party Kevin threw complete with the Michael Jordan cutout on a train as the real life Macaulay Culkin pulls the strings and not touch the impressiveness as the Osterland’s house.
I bet they even made sure a couple of yuppie fucks that hate Christmas like Margo and Todd moved next door to truly recreate the experience of what it’s like being a Griswold. Either that or their neighbors figured what’s the point of trying to compete with 25,000 lights.
That is a laugh out loud funny picture that is actually real life
And in case all that ridiculousness wasn’t enough, they are raising money for all the people that drive out to see the Griswold house like it is the Field of Dreams or some shit.
When he was 6 years old, Osterland he was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis — a genetic disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system and other organs. Determined to help find a cure, Osterland accepts optional donations from visitors to his home on behalf of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Great Strides Walk, which is due to be held in Akron, Ohio, in May.
TL;DR- The Osterland family and their house are fucking awesome and if you disagree you are pro cystic fibrosis and an asshole. Or you are his nei
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