Anyone elses parents act as though it costs £10,000 a day to keep a light on?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

My folks are neurotic about lights being on. I visit - they sit in the dark. They visit - they comment about the lights being on.

I could walk from a lit room, hands too full to hit the lightswitch and they practically have an aneurysm. God forbid it takes me a few minutes to dump the stuff I'm carrying and go back to turn the light off.

We dont live together - the cost of my electricity is of no concern of theirs.

I have relatively poor eyesight so find that sitting in dusk-type lighting strains my eyes so if I go to theirs and they are sat in the dark I ask to put the light on....it goes on....then before I've even left the room the lights off again.

They are financially sound.

They leave the TV on whenever they arent home as a burglar deterrent so they arent arsed about the cost of that!

It’s like Blackpool illuminations in here!

My children's parents do.

Sunshine is free... etc.

My Dad is the other way, whenever he's here he puts all lamps and the big light on even during the day.
He also runs the tap for about an hour to get a drink of water, I can see DH (who turns the shower off while he washes his body) inwardly channelling Joe Exotic "I am never going to financially recover from this"

Yup. But in my parents’ (well, father’s) case it’s not a money thing, it’s things being in “order”. See also having to have doors appropriately closed, a fixation on whether curtains are open/shut at the correct time of day... it’s not OCD, but they are very set in their habits!

I dislike sheer waste (so I do tell my kids to go back to a room they’ve just vacated and turn the light off) but if the room is occupied then the lights are there to be used!

Oh yes. And the heating. "shut that window, I'm not paying to heat the street"

@Tlollj

It’s like Blackpool illuminations in here!

I was going to say the same.

I remember well me and dsis playing happily aged about 3 and 6yo. the lights went out and we both wailed "dad!"
It was a power cut.