Nobody does excess like Americans

They can try. In Lanarkshire a man has done up his house with some 45,000 Christmas lights in a dazzling display of insanity.
David Grant's Christmas lights in Blantyre, Lanarkshire





Most houses are quite sparse at Christms, with maybe some lights in the window, or a hokey "Merry Christmas" light in a central display. This is similar to the kind of things you'll see:


             minimal Christmas lights









And even this is splashing out a bit:

Glasgow Christmas Lights

But there's none of those annoying little plastic figurines that light up, like these:




Annoying plastic figurines at Christmas






They're starting to go that way, at least in the cities and town centres, but the home owners and renters just don't have it in them to spend the thousands necessary to create such a debacle as Peacock Lane:

Peacock Lane (a typical Christmas display emulated around the US)