Flashing Christmas Lights [Grumble]

[IceRebel]

Now let me start off by saying I love Christmas, but my goodness after a shit nights sleep I could happily skip to January and be done with it all. My neighbours have some obnoxious blue and multi coloured Christmas lights, which they have set to stay on all night. Lucky me, I get a crappy lights show keeping me awake.

I bet they wouldn't enjoy them flashing in their living room, so why do they; and others like them, insist on having them on the outside of their house for others to suffer?

TL:/DR AIBU to think that people with flashing Christmas Lights shouldn't inflict them on others?

How are you even seeing them? My neighbours have flashing lights but we have black out blinds and curtains so can't see them unless we go outside

How are you even seeing them?

Our neighbour is directly opposite our house, he’s covered the whole of the front of his house in very bright, flashing blue lights.

It’s OK when we’re up and about and our lights are on, we don’t notice them. As soon as we go to bed and the house is dark, despite black out curtains, our bedroom is just flashing blue lights.

We live out in the sticks so no street lights or anything either

All I ask is that they turn them off when they go to bed

Tell me about it 😡 our neighbours have put up a light projector thing, that projects loads of different colour flashing, moving lights all our their house. It is also projecting onto my house, into one of the bedrooms 😡

Coloured lights should be banned!! And blow up bloody santas, waving to me as I walk past 😡

Well, if they were on a timer/ turned off at a reasonable time, as is common courtesy, the previous 2 posters wouldn't see them from their bedroom!!

Because they'd be off by that time!

I don't see them from my bedroom. They are in my bedroom on my wall!

Are they blue and white so it always looks as if your street is under siege? I never know if its the emergency services or shite lights.

They’re a really bright blue, no white in there

You can’t quite see the house as you drive up our road, just this blue flashing glow so I always have a split second panic that something has happened.

This thread has reminded me, was there any resolution to the thread where the husband got really bright neon lights for his fish tank in the living room and insisted they had to be on all evening while he was out?

sham I would be cutting the wires with your neighbours. Possibly using some kind of implement to leave raggedy edges so you could suggest a fox has chewed through them when they ask you about it.

YANBU.enough light pollution in our towns and cities as it is.Seriously messing up natural rhythm of wildlife and inconsiderate to neighbours if on all night.I am not saying no lights ,but not flashing and a nice soft soft white for an appropriate festive period ie.not mid November But then I'm probably deemed the fun police by the ITS XMAS !! and I will do what I want brigade.

More than once recently my boyfriend has been driving round a corner and hit the brakes expecting a police car in the road/a bad accident etc. It’s just blue and red flashing Christmas lights! Dangerous for drivers certainly

Sharon is that you??!!
Our lights are also 2 colours - but set on a timer.
If it's our lights I can change the timer!!
(won't mention your ds keeping us awake last week with bed banging against our bedroom wall as your dh was mortified enough for both of you!!)

You could retaliate with your own light display....

Flashing lights can cause migraines and epileptic fits. Quite apart from the fact that they are tacky and tasteless.

Eye mask.

One of my neighbours has also installed a projector with wafting snow flakes over 3 houses opposite.
It put me in such a bad mood last night.

I'm going out under the cover of darkness tonight to figure out the culprit.
Not sure what to do once I've discovered said culprit??

They even put warnings about flash photogrphy on news articles on TV for the benefit if people who have light induced epilepsy (I assume), and they only last milliseconds. Goodness knows how those people manage their condition at this time of year when ther's flashing lights around every corner.

A couple of years ago our neighbours across the road put these blue flashing lights on the tree in their garden. Due to the bay window in our bedroom it was impossible to stop them reflecting on the ceiling through the tiny gap between the top of the curtain and our ceiling. Don't htink they left them on all night but they cetainly go to bed later than we do. Even in the evening, my heart skipped a beat every time I walked through the hall and saw the blue flashing lights through the glass in the front door - due to DD's epilepsy we were regular users of 999 service. Thankfully they didn't put them up last year - I'm hoping they're broken and they don't get replaced.

I personally think the christmas light thing is getting out of hand now. Sometimes less is more. Agree with you, OP.

"One of my neighbours has also installed a projector with wafting snow flakes over 3 houses opposite."

OMD I think you might live near my mum.

if you can track the culprit and kill them we'd be grateful.

well, mum doesn't care because she sleeps on the other side of the house, but it's driving me nuts. Also, because I'm not resident there, there are only flimsy curtains and we shouldn't have to invest in blackout ones just because some idiot wants snowflakes wafting over the house!!

Our lights are sometimes left on all night, if my H falls asleep downstairs. Starting tonight I shall make sure I turn them off when I go to bed. Sorry to all of my neighbours who have been kept awake, by my flashing.

@Aprilsinparis "Sorry to all of my neighbours who have been kept awake, by my flashing."

sounds like you might have something different to apologise for....

Grace212does your Mum live in Manchester?

My neighbours across the street has flashing blue lights. I keep thinking the police are outside. The kicker is the bloke keeps telling me they do it for our enjoyment. He must think I hate the warm white still lights I put up but am too stupid to buy flashing blue lights.

@Russiawithlove

ah, no, south east.

@Weebitwks

no, he knows you hate those lights. I think it might be time to create a Mischief Night based on light sabotage....

Are you my neighbour although my neighbours goes into my bedroom 🤦🏻‍♀️

I feel your pain OP. My new neighbours over the road have the blue flashing lights. They’re not even flashing consistently...they’re on slow, then fast then off then strobe then slow then oh ffs just put them on steady 😤 Have only spoken to them twice...third time will be to moan very politely.