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AIBU?

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AIBU to want to keep fairy lights on my mantelpiece?

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atswimtwolengths · 30/12/2010 19:40

I live in an Edwardian house (1907) and my living room has a bay window with the original stained glass - very pretty. It has a lovely mahogany fireplace with tiled insert and I have a real fire.

At Christmas I put fairy lights on the mantelpiece and they look so lovely I want to keep them there all year round.

I'm being unreasonable, aren't I? It's just it's going to look so bloody dull when I take all the lights down.

Please let me keep just those!

OP posts:

brass · 08/01/2011 15:52

ahh yes the bunting too. That went up 4 or 5 years ago and stayed up. It's not christmassy paper at all so just looks pretty rather than festive.

MuthaHubbard · 08/01/2011 15:52

have clear ones along the top of my headboard - love 'em!

katiestar · 08/01/2011 16:09

If you like them sweetheart, you keep them

MyBrilliantCareer · 08/01/2011 18:55

YANBU. We've left ours on in the kitchen. Too lovely and cosy to take them down

bren12 · 08/01/2011 20:39

If you use clear ones year round what ones you use for christmas?

nickelbabyjesus · 10/01/2011 10:02

in the shop, the clear ones are the christmas ones, and winter.

the ones we have at christmas at home are multi-coloured (and the new ones have changing twinkling and sparkling that gets on my nerves)

AlienZombieMum · 10/01/2011 10:05

I have fluffy pink star lights my MIL gave me for Christmas last year in my bedroom now. Good lighting for other activities

nickelbabyjesus · 10/01/2011 10:34

[snurk]

DastardlyandSmugly · 10/01/2011 10:39

YANBU I have them round the window and the alcove where the oven is in my kitchen and some going up the stairs.

MackerelOfFact · 10/01/2011 10:39

Apart from the few weeks surrounding Chrustmas when they are reappropriated for the tree, we have fairy light entwined in our headboard. They're much less of a faff than candles!

emmanana · 10/01/2011 13:28

If they make you smile - you keep 'em!
If they make others sneer - their problem!

Don't live your life or decorate your house according to what other people think.

If people judge you because you have fairy lights up all year round, then it says more about them then it does you.

I love fairy lights and have some wrapped round the branches of a swiss cheese plant. They look gorgeous and twinkly!

Peter Pan? I'm happy to be labelled as such. I love fairy lights, sparklers, and all things glittery!

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