Via the Boston Globe, one homeowner who loves to celebrate Christmas early and big–250,000 lights ablazin’–wants to remind his neighbors not to take life for granted:

Some people have big houses. And some people like celebrating Christmas. And then there is Dominic Luberto.

A year ago, Luberto bought one of the largest single-family homes in Boston. It has 11 fireplaces, stone turrets, long red velvet drapes, and furniture imported from Italy. Set on a can’t-miss spot on the Arborway, it is one of the jewels in Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace of roads and parks surrounding Jamaica Pond.

Last month — a full 72 days before Christmas — Luberto began covering the exterior of the 8,500-square-foot house with Christmas lights. He says he has spent $10,000 on lights alone, a purchase that he hopes will cause people “throughout the city, throughout Massachusetts” to take note…

…He says he wants to shock his sleepy neighborhood into sharing his love of the holiday, and he has put in a request at City Hall to have the mayor come by for a party in about two weeks, when all the lights are ablaze.

“We’re losing the beauty of this life,” Luberto exclaimed, saying he loves the smiles on children’s faces — particularly that of his 10-year-old daughter, Dominique — when they gaze at the home. “We’re going to show them something big for Christmas!”

…He hopes the lights will serve as a reminder to some 47,000 people who drive by his home each day that Christmas should be celebrated in style.

“Don’t you celebrate on your birthday?” he asks. “Well, this is Jesus’ birthday. It should be the biggest celebration of all….”

I hear those ACLU lawyers jingling, ring-ting-ting-a-ling…