Minimal effort
The Grinch is one of the best-known characters that comes along with the Christmas movie marathon. Everyone knows the green man hates the holiday and wants to ruin it no matter what, just because it annoys him. So it makes perfect sense to use that evil motivation to your advantage.
When you just do not care about setting up lights for the holiday season, try doing something like this, have the Grinch steal them. People who drive by will laugh at your creativity and not think twice about it. Meanwhile, you spent all of ten minutes setting this up and now you can relax.