To ask neighbours to turn their Christmas lights around?

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The house nearly opposite us has put up some Christmas lights in their front garden - fairy lights in the tree, a couple of little reindeer things made of lights and lights spelling out Ho Ho Ho! in their front garden. It doesn’t look too ott, it’s not flashing and there are only a couple of blue lights scattered across tree and hidden in with other colours.

But....... they have put the Ho Ho Ho! to face their house. So from anywhere other than their kitchen it looks like it says !oH oH oH. They have admittedly switched them off for the night now but I know they’ll be back on tomorrow and I don’t want to look at !oH oH oH for the next month.

Would this drive you mad? Dm says I’m overreacting because I’ve been curtain twitching all evening hoping they’ll realise and turn them around. Or maybe they’ve done it on purpose . Front garden lights are definitely for the benefit of others and you place them based on how they’ll be viewed from a passerby’s POV don’t you? Or have I got it completely wrong and you put them up so they look nice when you look out of your own window?

I’d like to go around and ask them about it but I don’t know them and am a complete coward.

Only if I can go round to our neighbours and ask them to take down the gazebo that they've had up since July. I'm sick of looking at it

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Honestly, it would annoy me but I'd think you would look like a crazy lady to say anything about it.

Channel your inner Nessa...

OH OH OH Merry Christmas

Every time you read oh oh oh read it in Nessa's voice from gavin and stacey. Problem solved.

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Think yourself lucky, OP! My neighbours from hell cover the entire house and garden in hideous lurid flashing disco chaser lights, plus ghastly luminous Santa, snowmen etc. The vile ensemble shines and flashes into every window of my house until past midnight. Sleep is impossible even with blackout curtains - you can see the flashing round the edges, and it comes through all the bedroom door skylights from the landing window.
They don’t wait for Christmas either- this shit show runs from late November to mid January.

next door have coloured flashing rope lights in thier hedge and have 2 projectors putting moving images of snowflakes and snowmen and christmas trees all over thier house (and half of ours!). Then I came home last night and they have added a giant bloody flashing star thing to the top of their porch, I'm expecting 3 wise men and some shepherds asking directions shortly!!

Heh heh. I can see how it would drive you nuts. But I think they've put up those lights for their benefit, perhaps, rather than yours.

Made me think of being in The Range the other day, looking at those projectors for projecting a picture or light pattern onto an outside wall. A lady there, and I think she was perhaps serious (maybe semi?!) was trying to figure out which would be the one most likely to drive her neighbour batshit crazy. . .

I did say that perhaps that could lead to a police callout - 'don't worry luv, got the police on speed dial, I have. . .' Gulp!!!

creep over tonight when everyone is asleep and fix them that's what I would do!

Is Zac the neighbour?

Oh god I HATE the projectors!!!!!!!

I am willing to volunteer to be the Christmas light taste police in my street btw. Some people!

I don't know why but I can't stand the thought of listening to Christmas songs, or putting up decorations, until at least December 1st. It's just one of my brain's little loopholes, I have no idea why it makes me so irrationally angry!

Have you got any good scissors?

My neighbours appear to have a giant number 46 on their house

Our old neighbours had chasing green ones

This reminds me of something I saw on Pinterest where someone had wrapped a gift in paper that said Let It Snow but the folds made it say Tits Now
Sorry, completely unhelpful. You could go ‘wind chime’ on their ass and sneakily turn the lights round overnight.

I came to say that perhaps they are big Gavin and Stacey fans.

I don't see the point in outside lights - I can't see them, I'm indoors.

I'm going to ours in the back garden this year so the kids can appreciate them... is that weird? We don't directly face anyone else so other than 2 mins of DH arriving home it's a bit pointless out front

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Can you creep out under cover of darkness and rearrange the letters so it says "ooohhh"?

I'd ask the neighbours if they realise that for anyone who isn't in their house, it looks like illuminated sex noises. They'll either find that hilarious or rush home and turn them round.

My neighbours have a Santa pulling his pants up and down to reveal his bare arse. It hasn’t gone up yet this year but fingers crossed it appears soon. I live in possibly the most expensive place in my city so it doesn’t go down well with the neigjbours

rearrange the letters so it says "ooohhh"?

@christmasinNessasvoice = classic. Too funny.

I feel your pain, the house opposite us has installed 2 bloody big lions on their gate posts. They look completely naff. We live in an ordinary suburban cul de sac not on a royal estate. We have to look at them all year round. Occasionally the kids go over and stick googly eyes on them.