Will you be having any this year?

[Stangerthings]

Outdoor Christmas lights. I am aware that they are LED lights now but with the price of electricity will you still be putting them up?

Yep. Still putting my outdoor Christmas lights up and on.

Yes. I have 2 strings and they are battery powered (4aa each). The set of batteries last through the season. They are multicolour and flash. They bring me joy!

Yes. They bring me joy. I guess we might cut down on times they are on.

Yes I probably will. They help.me through the dark days!

Yes, they cost pennies to run.

No. I don’t know how much they cost to run and I’m not willing to risk it.

Bloody good excuse to put my foot down and say no this year!

Yes. Winter is miserable enough as it is. Christmas lights brighten it slightly.

Yes we've just moved to a house with big windows and a lovely front garden in an area they won't get stolen or destroyed so we're going to make it extra special for the children. The magic of Christmas won't last forever.

No. My predicted monthly energy bill for April is over £1000. We are cutting back to try and build up credit to see us through, but I didn't think we were being unreasonable with our energy usage already! It's a massive proportion of our income. Even things that were negligible now won't be negligible by then.

Yes

weve moved somewhere with a balcony and weve just put an outside plug up there for Christmas lights

indoor ones will be on a fair bit but we’ll be a bit more careful with the outdoor ones in case we forget to turn them off!

Not all of them. The big displays will cost a fortune and I did wonder if the massive price rises would lead to a reduction in the more elaborate displays that have become popular over the last few years.

Yes definitely! We've just bought a big family house after renting all my life with lovely big windows and last Christmas was a disaster with LO being rushed to hospital on Christmas Eve at 2 days old and spent 10 days in hospital fighting for his life.

I'm going over the top this year however I will use battery powered lights where possible.

Yes, but as we have no outdoor plug anyway they're battery powered! If anybody has any good links for fancy battery powered ones I'd love it!!

Yes, but they are only a few strings of battery powered ones using rechargeable AAs. Our local "big display charity fundraiser" one has already said they can't do it this year on cost grounds though.

Regardless of cost to run these are just bad taste in a time of climate peril.

Yes, they're very cheap to run, going off my smart metre it was a few pence a day, I'd turn them on about 5pm when I got home from work and leave them on until midnight when I went to sleep.

No. It's just too frivolous for us this year (despite being comfortably able to afford them). It will be interesting to do our usual 'Christmas lights' walk around the neighbourhood and see how things compare to last year.

Yes, I only get a set number of Christmases with dc when everything is so magical.

Here is the link to the Martin Lewis energy cost calculator.

www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/what-are-the-price-cap-unit-rates-/#tool

Mine extend to a couple of strings of solar fairy lights that are up all year, so yes. (And I need to look in the end of summer outdoor stuff for some more). But there’s a huge display near my ils (they do Halloween too), be interested to see if they do this year.

Mine are battery operated

Yes, life is miserable enough right now with all the worry and bad news everywhere without having no Christmas lights either. We don't have much though just some round the front door and then battery ones on the windows.

Ok so may be from one to the other 😂

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