Outdoor Flashing Xmas Lights

[Hearmenow23]

slightly lighthearted

If you love all the Xmas lights and decorations- then great! I have my own inside. But you can't see your big fuck off flashing lights as they are outside your house, and you are inside it. In fact, your flashing lights are only seen by me and a few other neighbours, mainly in my living room and bedroom. I don't understand!!!! Why???

Obviously I can't say anything as that would make me look completely miserable, but don't people think?? Even lights permanently on would be preferable to the flashing!!!

AIBU to not want flashing lights pointed at my house?

I'd want to say something but, let's be honest, it's a certain type of person who has that sort of display

There's also a certain type of person who gets upset about others Christmas decorations and wants to say something 😛

I guess driving round and looking at them is momentary, whilst having them flashing into your house for potentially 5 or 6 weeks is different. Also a lights trail sounds lovely, kind of like Halloween, which lasts for 24 hours. Also pulling up on your drive and seeing your lights is momentary- for everyone else it's constant.

We're in a cul-de-sac surrounded by fields, so no bugger ever comes round here.

You clearly have flashing lights up!!
But, not everyone likes them and they are the equivalent of wind chimes in the summer - just cos you like them etc etc

Not everyone has 'drapes' love, let alone thick enough to completely block flashing ones out

YANBU. Our neighbour has blue flashing lights up every year. They stay on 24/7. This year I'll ask them to turn them off when they go to bed so they don't flash into my bedroom when I'm trying to sleep.

Oops. We have a giant inflatable Santa and reindeer too 😂 I hope you don’t live near us

Haha, no, I don't. I wouldn't mind having them but it's too much for me to handle on my own. It's really not that hard to put up drapes or curtains. whatever you want to call them. I'm dirt poor but I managed to find some I could afford. My neighbor has a bright light outside for her safety, and instead of getting my panties in a wad about it I put up curtains. It really is that easy.

‘Delightful’ is such a subjective term. Ones that are on all the time are one thing but the flashing ones are awful. As someone else has pointed out, they look like emergency vehicle lights.

My point being that you had better make sure you're not doing anything to make the neighbours moan too. No lights around us yet but one neighbour who always assumed we love being the receiver of parcels from their online shopping.

If it’s disturbing your sleep, fine to ask them switch off overnight, I thought most people did that anyway to save electricity. Otherwise you’re being a bit Scrooge

What a miserable thread.
I despair

Years ago our neighbours had a huge inflatable Santa with a slow puncture. Was bent double by evening and looked like he’d been hit in the groin.

😂😂😂

All the blow ups and lights aren’t my style but I can see the fun in them and that they do bring joy.

The manically flashing lights though are a step too far.

I was going to put all my outdoor decorations 🎄up yesterday but we've had a big snow ⛄️ dump so my neighbours are safe till next weekend.

I love Xmas and Xmas lights outside our house.

Our old neighbours were pretty obnoxious about (and everything else) it and had large inflatable characters in their front garden that were quite loud to keep inflated all night. One also had a repetitive jingle. They also had a large number of incredibly bright flashing lights that made it look like we were having a disco in our room at night - they kept them on all night. It was the sort of house people purposefully drove past or walked to. This was all stuff we could cope with - we got stick on black our blinds and ear plugs.

However, the thing that pushed us over the edge was when they started parking two of their four cars in our driveway as they were limiting people's view of their house and surely we didn't mind as we had the benefit of living next to their wonderful house.

You aren't a Grinch, it was unbearable and meant we couldn't enjoy the more tasteful decorations in our house.

This wasn't the worst thing they did. We moved.

Someone near me has flashing outdoor blue lights and they live right by a very busy road- so stupid.

I think outdoor lights are fine as long as they don't impinge on someone else negatively- any other time of the year if someone was flashing lights into your house continuously people would rightly say something- as its Christmas though you're supposed to suck it up or be labelled as a bore, reminded its first world problems and whatever else. I'd find it irritating. Aside from blue light idiot people here are thankfully mindful; some have beautiful outdoor displays and encourage children to have a look, they're all turned off at a reasonable time though and don't face anyone's windows.

I wouldn't want them flashing into my house - luckily none of our neighbours do this although some do have external security lights on outside all night but that is more into the distance through trees so not bad at all.

Neighbours can probably change flashing lights to on all the time so a word about how lovely they are but could they just turn them off when they go to bed as you can see them in your bed room and it keeps you up might be the answer unless they are armed and dangerous.

Someone who wants to be able to enjoy their home without having to shut all of their curtains or listen to a pump keeping their tacky looking inflatables up all night?

I hate the flashing outdoor lights and even more so if they are blue. In fact I think blue flashing lights should be banned, as I am another one who has to look twice to check they aren't emergency vehicles.

I hate blue Xmas lights. They make my eyes go funny.

I have photosensitive complex migraine and the flashing lights are a really terrible trigger. Thankfully I don’t see have to see flashing or strobing lights from my window but there a couple of houses on my regular evening dog walk which have them.

If I lived across from a house with them, I would have to ask them not use the flashing setting because it makes me ill (even through curtains/blinds/shutters).

Wow what a stupid post. Some migraine medications work on some people, but generally a doctor will advise you to avoid triggers.
I generally love the jollity of Christmas lights and used to adore the over the top ones some houses have but since the predominance of LED ones made them much brighter and flashing ones became common I have to avoid walking down certain streets because they are a migraine trigger and seeing the doctor again won’t change that.

Plus you can get solar powered ones. Ours are.

@Peablockfeathers

Like a said types of person 😂😛

Yes a rational person. I'd be annoyed if my neighbours had lights flashing into my windows and would say something to them, just as I'd fully expect them to say something to me if I was to be so selfish! If outdoor lights don't affect anyone else then who cares, but the amount of people who would put up with it and not say anything is pretty sad, I'm happy to not be a push if that's what type you mean.

Everyone here has blue flashing ones and I keep thinking it's an ambulance or cops. The flashing comes through the side of our black out curtains into our rooms.

Everyone seems to have gone for the projectors this year, those green spotty lights and snow flakes, they actually come through the black out curtains, the green spotty lights.

A house across the road has done big yokes that hang on the house, like trees, sleigh, Santa, in green and red, the colours alternate at a rapid rate, it's like a fucking rave from the 90s, I usually like to have my sitting room curtain open but it's shut because dd who has epilepsy is actually affected by the constant flashing, with all the houses going off at the same time my stomachs actually feels sick.

I do love Christmas and lights etc but this year it's like that movie with Danny DeVito Dec the halls.