A MAN has filled is home with 10,000 Christmas decorations – his partner hates it but he says he won't stop.
Geoff Stonebanks' two-bed bungalow is crammed with 32 trees, 1,400 ornaments and over 150 metres of tinsel.
Dubbed Britain's biggest Christmas fan, the 69-year-old's Sussex home is lit up with around 8,000 fairy lights.
However Geoff's partner of 23 years, Mark Glassman, 58, isn't a fan of the extravagant display.
Geoff said: "I love Christmas, but my partner hates it, although he has to tolerate my decorations.
"[Mark] finds the month-long display 'depressing'. He goes to work and stays out.
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"He's just got to sit through it."
The pensioner unpacks 40 boxes of decorations every November.
Geoff claims it takes him over a week to decorate his home.
He added: "It takes a week of full-time decoration to erect them all and the tree in the living room takes a day on its own.
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"By New Year's Day we've had enough as they've been up since December 1."
His love of festive decorations comes from his childhood growing up in a pub.
After his parents retired Geoff inherited the decorations and has added to his growing collection ever since.
The trees in Geoff and Mark's house this year are both real and artificial.
Some are just 12 inches but the tallest is around seven feet.
Geoff hopes to enter the Guinness World Records after realising last year he had 1,400 baubles – the current record is 1,760.
Despite the dazzling decs, Geoff will be having a quite Christmas with his mum, 94, and Mark.
And Geoff isn't the only one obsessed with this time of year.
Callum Stuart, 23, has 200,000 lights in his garden – which sees hundreds of people line the street for his official switch-on.
The young lad from Scotland covers his home in a bid to raise money for charity – last year he raised £8,000.
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