How Much Would It Cost To Repair The Christmas Vacation House?

The holiday season is upon us. Decorations are still going up; gifts are being wrapped, and folks are turning to Christmas songs and movies to tap into the spirit even more.  

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Saturday my wife was wrapping gifts while I was doing laundry and she said, “let’s watch a Christmas movie”. This isn’t the norm for us, we haven’t had a family tradition of watching holiday movies since our granddaughter was much younger when we watched Home Alone and The Grinch over and over.  

We decided to watch my favorite Christmas movie and one of hers “National Lampoons Christmas Vacation”.  As we laughed out loud at the scenes we’d seen numerous times, I started thinking to myself, I wondered how much it would cost to repair the Griswald's house after everyone left.  

I found an article from ApartmentTherapy.com from 2020 that estimated the value to be over $52,000.  

There were ten windows broken in the home between the incident early in the movie with the Christmas tree and then when the SWAT team gained entry at the end of the movie.  

The blown circuit in the house would’ve been at least three grand and the front door would cost around four thousand dollars. The gable vent in the attic that Clark broke when he saw his family leaving would be around $100. 

The house would need new gutters after Clark hung-on them and pulled them free, there’s another $3,500. 

Damages caused by Cousin Eddies dog would have been around $50, and repairing the ceiling where Clark stepped through it from the attic would be around $300. 

The door knocker from the front door that was ripped off by the delivery man would be around $75. The pull downstairs to the attic would cost $225 to repair and  

But the big hit would be to replace the shingles on the roof. When Clark went crazy with the staple gun, the result wouldn’t have been good and would cost between 25,000 and 30,000 dollars.  

And this is not even counting the repairs to Todd and Margo’s house next door.  

Keep in mind, these figures are from 2020, and we all know how much things have gone up since then, right. I don’t know about you, but after hearing this, sure makes me want to reconsider having anyone over for the holidays.