You Can Stay At The House From "A Christmas Story" On Christmas Eve And Christmas Day If You Have An Extra $8000 Laying Around

NBC 4- Turn on the leg lamp, be sure to drink your Ovaltine and try not to shoot your eye out while spending Christmas at the house from “A Christmas Story.” The iconic home where Ralphie and the Parker family lived in the 1983 movie -- with yellow siding, green trim and a leg lamp glowing in the middle of the front room window -- offers year-round overnight stays and currently is available on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.    

For fans who want to spend the upcoming holiday in the house as badly as Ralphie wanted a Red Ryder BB Gun, the two-night minimum stay for Christmas costs $3,995 per night. The house, located in Cleveland, Ohio, but set in Indiana for the movie, has single-night rates the remainder of the year starting as low as $495 per night and can be booked at www.achristmasstoryhouse.com. 

I know we can #embracedebate about whether A Christmas Story is a good movie, a good Christmas movie, or none of the above. But regardless on how you feel about any of those, I think we can all agree that spending the price of a used car to stay in the house where Ralphie almost shot his eye out for two nights is ridiculous.

I would consider paying 4 grand a night to stay at the Griswold Family Christmas House if it was lit with enough lights to see some space and would fork over that crazy amount of money to feel like a rich person at the Silver Tuna from Home Alone provided I didn't have to interact with any of the awful people in the McAllister family. But paying anywhere near that much to stay at the house from A Christmas Story in the middle of Cleveland is preposterous. Cute movie, perfectly good to put in the background during its Christmas Day marathon until NBA games come on, and nowhere near the allure as the houses of Christmas movies past. Unless you got to hang out with The Old Man. All-time great fictional dad to the point I won't dock any points for the actor having the name Darren McGavin, which I found out just right now.