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To think if you can't be bothered to take your christmas lights down they don't need to be switch on?

145 replies

sushibelt · 04/01/2025 22:44

Especially if they're those annoying flashy ones. Just stop already.

OP posts:
CornishPorsche · 04/01/2025 22:45

It's twelfth night tomorrow. Plenty of people leave them up until then.

JustKeepSwimmingJust · 04/01/2025 22:45

Christmas is until Monday…

WallaceinAnderland · 04/01/2025 22:48

Monday is the last day of Christmas.

Drreamingthedaysaway · 04/01/2025 22:48

Ours stay up until Twelfth Night. But only go up a week or 10 daysbefore Christmas.

GreetingCeridwen · 04/01/2025 22:49

Mine came down yesterday but up until twelfth night is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

NewYearSameOldSameOld · 04/01/2025 22:49

Yeah sorry mine stay up till twelfth night too, flashy bastards.

stargirl1701 · 04/01/2025 22:50

It's still Christmas. Some people take them down on Twelfth Night, some on Epiphany and a few at Candlemas. It is literally Christmastide.

Perhaps your annoyance should be decorated at those who decorate pre and during Advent?

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 04/01/2025 22:53

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PokerFriedDips · 04/01/2025 22:53

It's still Christmas season until Candlemas 40 days after Christmas. Save your ire for those who start putting Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween!

Kitkat1523 · 04/01/2025 22:54

sushibelt · 04/01/2025 22:44

Especially if they're those annoying flashy ones. Just stop already.

Why? It’s not 12th night yet

Allswellthatendswelll · 04/01/2025 22:56

We CAN leave the Christmas lights up until January! 😜

Lambington · 04/01/2025 22:57

Yab massively U. It's still Christmas!!

maudelovesharold · 04/01/2025 22:58

PokerFriedDips · 04/01/2025 22:53

It's still Christmas season until Candlemas 40 days after Christmas. Save your ire for those who start putting Christmas decorations up the day after Halloween!

And for all the shops selling Easter chocolates in January Angry

PokerFriedDips · 04/01/2025 23:00

maudelovesharold · 04/01/2025 22:58

And for all the shops selling Easter chocolates in January Angry

Hot cross buns in Sainsburys today :-(

NotThisOldChestnutAgain · 04/01/2025 23:00

People can keep them on till twelfth night, you are being unreasonable.
Far far more irritating are the people who put them on in November, are you one of those OP?

FloralGums · 04/01/2025 23:00

Wait for Epiphany to take them down. All that work to put them up and they look so pretty. Why take them down early?

Spirallingdownwards · 04/01/2025 23:00

Come back after 6 January if its still an issue. Until then it's fair game to have Christmas lights and decorations up. Even ones not to your taste.

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 04/01/2025 23:01

Our tree and mantle lights are still up. I’m enjoying the last night of them before we de-Christmas tomorrow/return to work on Monday.

Ticketytutu · 04/01/2025 23:01

Am keeping my lights on until tomorrow…sorry !

Ticketytutu · 04/01/2025 23:02

NotThisOldChestnutAgain · 04/01/2025 23:00

People can keep them on till twelfth night, you are being unreasonable.
Far far more irritating are the people who put them on in November, are you one of those OP?

This ,our lights were not switched on until mid December!

Moveoverdarlin · 04/01/2025 23:06

Taking all mine down on Monday. Until then they will flash, sparkle, and spread joy.

nocoolnamesleft · 04/01/2025 23:08

Not Twelfth Night until the 6th.

Thatcastlethere · 04/01/2025 23:09

I leave mine up till March. They aren't Christmas themed though tbf. Just coloured lights.
I take down anything that's specifically Christmas themed next week.
But I leave up the nice lights for the whole of the winter.

DonttouchthatLarry · 04/01/2025 23:14

No - mine stay up and on until Twelfth Night. People who put them up in November and are now sick of the sight of them are the ones in the wrong.

ACynicalDad · 04/01/2025 23:16

January can be miserable as it is, so no problem personally.