...to think that having Christmas lights in your garden...

[Fraidylady]

...is like making a bonfire with £10 notes?

The people across the road usually put up loads of lights at the beginning of December. Half of them are knackered by Christmas day. They get taken down again about March-ish.

We don't do outside lights, but I do put some in the window. Nobody goes overboard round here!

I do like this guy's lights though (sorry for Daily Fail link!)

We have cherry red lights in the tree outside the front door, and red leds round the porch - and the kids have indoor lights in their windows (snowman/rudolph/santa), oooo - and we have 2 or 3 indoor sets in the living room window and 300 leds on the tree and I wrapped some battery ones round the garland on the mantlepiece... and .....and......and.... looks great to me, the neighbours probably hate them, but I-don't-care!! They go off by 10pm.

I want some rope lights along the guttering, but hate heights!!!!

The downside to outdoor lights is that I can't sleep well unless it's dark. Any neighbour leaving lights on all night would soon find me a whimpering wreck from lack of sleep.

I think I'm the only person in the street who cheered when our council began switching the street lights off between midnight and 5:30am!

My neighbours definitely believe in more is more. Two houses up the road have joined forces this year and have a combined effort stretching across the front of both their gardens. Delightfully ghastly. My son calls me a ghetto snob.