DECORATIONS: Now that all the shopping is finished and the presents neatly wra — OK, just pretend that’s all done. Then take a ride to see what there is to see, preferably after dark in Pennsylvania where, it turns out, there’s quite a bit to view.
We’ve been sharing photos of local decorations in the previous weeks leading up to Christmas. Check out the Grinch house on Willard Avenue or the 26-foot Christmas tree on Neil Drive, visible from Route 219.
A new study has found which states deck the halls the most.
Lombardo Homes was behind said study, which not only found the regions of the United States that decorate for Christmas the most, but also which decorations they gravitate toward.
Researchers managed to find this information by analyzing more than 6,700 Google search queries related to yuletide décor and surveying 1,000 people across the country on their holiday decorating habits. Results were divided by area for the final report.
Pennsylvania ranked 12th when it came to states that decorate the most for Christmas with the top decoration of choice being a window candle.
But it was Vermont — famed for its pine trees — that took the top spot. The Christmas tree, to no one’s surprise, was found to be the top decoration there as well as the national favorite.
Christmas lights were tops in Connecticut, North Carolina, New Mexico, Missouri and Oklahoma. Rounding out the top five states that decorate the most are Wyoming, Delaware, Rhode Island and North Dakota.
Other tidbits the study found was that 48 percent of respondents intended to put up their Christmas decorations the week after Thanksgiving and 67 percent prefer artificial trees over real.
