How Britney Spears Does Christmas Lights

Filed under: Famous Homes, Celebrity Homes, Cool Homes

Maybe we should start calling the pop star "Lit-ney" Spears since she's lit up her home with a truckload of lights for Christmas this year.

Celebrities really are just like us: They put tacky, life size figurines on their lawn. They wrap their trees in twinkling lights and line their driveway with so many lights it looks like an airport runway. And if you're Britney Spears, you do that and more.

Spears, who recently turned 29, showed her Christmas spirit by hanging thousands of lights on and around her Calabasas, California home. Not only is the house covered in fairy lights, but there are baubles and stars hanging from tree branches. A life sized, blow-up illuminated Santa sits on the lawn along with little drummer boys and angels. Forget a reindeer-driven sleigh: At Spears' house, Santa sits in a decorative helicopter on the roof.


Spears may be trying to make her home more festive for her two boys, since she recently announced that she wants full-time custody of them. Sean Preston, 5, and Jayden James, 4, have been living with Spears' famous ex, Kevin Federline, while the singer has been under the conservatorship of her father since her famous breakdown in 2008. According to published reports, she sees the boys once a week.

Spears moved into the French chateaux style Calabasas house in 2009. "I just took my babies to our new home, and they loved it!" the pop star wrote on her Twitter account at the time. "I can't wait to move in." She paid $8.9 million for the 7-bedroom, 9-bathroom home.

And now, some new neighbors: The Jackson family -- Michael's mother, Katherine, and his 3 children -- just moved a block behind Spears.

Be as snarky as you wish about the size of her house or her over-the-top display, but we're feeling a bit happier this holiday season now that we've seen this. Spears was so down on her luck a couple of years ago, putting on a disaster of a performance at the 2007 VMAs, losing custody of her kids in 2008 and maybe even losing her mind along the way. She lost everything, except her money, although she sort of lost that too when her father took over as her personal manager.

And in that way, we can all relate to Spears. Because in a down economy, don't we all feel like we've lost little bit of the wind in our sails? While we all know that a perfect house on the outside doesn't make for a perfect house on the inside, we also know that our home is a reflection of who we are and how we're feeling.

If Britney Spears is feeling hopeful enough to hang a strand of lights, then we should all head outside with a fistful in hand. Lights aren't just about celebrating Christmas -- they're about bringing smiles to our faces at a time when we could all use one.

It makes us think of George Bailey in the holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life": "What do you want, Mary? Do you want the moon? If you want it, I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down for you. Hey! That's a pretty good idea! I'll give you the moon, Mary."

So what if Spears is giving her kids the moon this holiday season. It's quite pretty.

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