However, he wasn't, and we made the news again! When Dave told me, I again laughed because I thought he was joking. Then today we got a call from an NBC5 reporter wanting to interview Dave for a follow-up story from last year. We couldn't come up with anything better than what we had done, so we just went with our simple decorations. A mega-church in Louisville, Kentucky (18,000 people attend their services every weekend) even used the picture and story in their Christmas Eve sermon! It was CRAZY! The Cybulskis, Dave and I could hardly believe it!įast forward to this year.we decided against putting the Ditto sign up this year simply because it seemed like an old joke. If you google Dave Nosek Ditto House, you'll see how far it went. The Daily News in the UK ran it, as well as news organizations in China and India (!). In the days that followed, the story and picture went viral. (At the end of the post linked here, there is a picture of the Yahoo! page with our story.) HA! (Click here for my post about that article.) A little bit later, Yahoo! called and said that they were posting our story on their main page too. They said that they wanted to run a little something in their magazine. I laughed, thinking that he was just joking around. He interviewed him, posted a story on their website, and then told us that it would be featured on their evening news program! (Click here for my blog post from that day and a link to the article.) I couldn't wait to tell the kids when I picked them up from school! They were thrilled! When we got home, Dave said that People magazine called. I took the picture, Dave emailed it to NBC5, and 2 minutes later (I kid you not!) a reporter called Dave. You know how sometimes the news ends with a funny local picture? I bet you our picture could make it." So Dave said to me, "Why don't we take a picture of our house and the Cybulski's? We can send it in to NBC5. Even as he was putting it up, our neighbors driving by our house stopped their cars, laughing out loud, taking pictures, and telling Dave how much they loved it. So Dave got busy with a few strands of lights and some electrical tape, fashioning our own Ditto sign above our garage. We decided that, to give our neighbors a good laugh, we would do a "Ditto display" as well. He showed it to Dave and I, and we all laughed saying that picture perfectly fits our houses, his with decorations a-plenty, and ours with not so many. Last year our neighbor found an picture on the internet of two houses, one that was completely decked out in an extravagant Christmas light display, and the other that had a sign made out of Christmas lights that said "Ditto" and an arrow pointing to the other house. It works out very well for us because we can enjoy the lights without paying the electricity bill. On the other hand, our next-door neighbor, Chet, does an amazing Christmas light display every year. Ferb actually helped her put it up this year."Īnd here's a fun fact: Steele says Ferb from the hit cartoon "Phineas and Ferb" was named after her neighbor, whose wife works on the show.We tend to be pretty minimalistic with our outside decorations and lights, partly because we have young children that keep us pretty busy. "This is the second year we've done it, there's no rivalry or anything.
"We get to have all the fun without the light bill," Steele laughed. Steele jokes that her display not only gives people who came to see her neighbors' lights a good laugh and some holiday cheer, but also saves her a ton of money on electricity. My roommate and her boyfriend thought it would be super funny, and are cool with it." "We get a lot of people all the way until the end of new year's, and they marvel and bring their kids. "It was a funny thing to do because our neighbors, every year for I don't know how long, have been doing this elaborate display, I mean it's pretty amazing." Steele said.
Steele wrote the word "DITTO" using a string of Christmas lights, with an arrow pointing to their neighbor's display. Their next-door neighbor, Lisa Steele, knew she couldn't compete, so she decided to light up the competition with a little humor. Year after year, a Tarzana, Calif., home is decorated with elaborate lights and over-the-top Christmas decorations that make the other houses pale in comparison. Most cities have them-those few homeowners that have Christmas spirit overload. In a quiet Los Angeles suburb, residents realized they couldn't compete with the elaborate Christmas decorations that one house had on display.
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