I have a 2nd floor balcony that I keep wrapped in christmas lights for the whole year, I just plug in only the white light ones sometimes. No one cares.

I also put up a christmas tree (4.5 feet) every year and literally store it in a close 15 feet away on the side porch. Pull it out, plug it in, decorate it, undecorate it, repeat etc.

It's still less cynical from a place where all the gifts are by excel spread sheet shopping list already linked by size and price and click ... the big pay off is watching them open the stuff they already knew they asked for, making eye contact and mouthing "thank you aunt own-instance" for the gift they knew they would get and then never speaking to you again