McLachlan residence in Helpful Township wins annual Christmas lights contest

Jackie and Bob McLachlan’s dwelling in Helpful Township shined the brightest this Christmas in the Livingston Daily’s annual Christmas Lights Tour contest.

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2.3723 Cemetery Rd., Useful Township, the home of Jackie and Bob McLachlan, revealed Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020.Vote on your preferred home from this year’s Light-weight Tour by way of an e-mail to lcp-photos@livingstondaily.com. We’ll award a present card to the residence acquiring the most votes. You should only vote the moment.

The McLachlans’ household, positioned at 3723 Cemetery Highway in Useful Township, gained much more than a person-quarter of the 120 total votes that came in this December. 20-three properties participated.

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Bob McLachlan reported he has been decorating his house for Xmas for 24 several years. It commenced out smaller, but as he amassed extra decorations in excess of the several years, he included far more and much more to his display screen. He also can take donations of burned-out lights from his friends, which he rewires and makes use of in his possess screen.

Decorating at the McLachlan residence commences in Oct, McLachlan said. He prefers to decorate though it’s still warm out, so he generally aims to have every thing up in advance of deer searching year starts.

“When I experienced my elves, my two sons, to assist me, it took 4 weekends to set every little thing up,” McLachlan reported. “Now I’m down to 1 elf, so he brings his buddies to help. These days it can take about six weekends.”

Whilst it can take a prolonged time to place the lights up, McLachlan explained it requires even more time to put them away. He takes the decorations down the day soon after Christmas and outlets all of them in the rafters of his pole barn until eventually following yr.

This year’s prize was a $100 Meijer gift card. McLachlan mentioned he and Jackie are hoping to use it get one thing they would not usually obtain for on their own.

“We’re not in it to win it,” he said. “We just like to love the lights.”

This write-up initially appeared on Livingston Everyday: McLachlan dwelling in Handy Township wins annual Xmas lights contest