After taking down his Halloween decorations, Ken Mansur begins the task of hanging holiday lights around the exterior of his house on Sixth Street in Auburn on Sunday afternoon. Before hanging them, he checked each strand to make sure they worked so he didn’t discover a burned-out bulb after hanging them. “I really like decorating for the holidays but the key is to go after the holidays to get bargains, and Goodwill is your friend,” he said. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

After taking down his Halloween decorations, Ken Mansur begins the task of hanging holiday lights around the exterior of his house on Sixth Street in Auburn Sunday afternoon. Before hanging them, he checked each strand to make sure they worked so he didn’t discover a burnt out bulb after hanging them. “I really like decorating for the holidays but the key is to go after the holidays to get bargains, and Goodwill is your friend. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

After taking down his Halloween decorations, Ken Mansur begins the task of hanging holiday lights around the exterior of his house on Sixth Street in Auburn Sunday afternoon. Before hanging them, he checked each strand to make sure they worked so he didn’t discover a burnt out bulb after hanging them. “I really like decorating for the holidays but the key is to go after the holidays to get bargains, and Goodwill is your friend. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)