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

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

Mine are up till we finish the mince pies

Mine will stay up until I take them down.

It's a tree in my lounge - my curtains are mainly closed.

I'm afraid I can't muster enough energy to care if this bothers you enough or not - I like it.

We are actively enjoying our lights.

Love the lights, like it's not miserable enough as it is in January

You can buy hot cross buns all year round.
DH takes two to work for lunch every day.

Me too! My Xmas tree becomes a winter tree

Candle mas

Happy to take down general decorations but I love the lights, I'll be switching them off tomorrow though.

I'm sad the guy over the road has taken them off the huge tree in his garden today. It was truly beautiful and lifted my spirits.

It's still Christmas. Don't be ridiculous.

And this is our place. We make the rules!

The true Christmas season is the 12 days of Christmas until Epiphany.

So you're wrong OP.

I'm going to turn my lights on to extra flashy tomorrow just in case you're my neighbour.

I blame SM and bloody Americans in general for this idea that lights need to go up on November and come down on boxing day!

Yanbu I took mine down on the third, and turned them off the day before

I've still got green ones up from Halloween 😅 I'm not taking them down at all 🤣

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sorry meant to quote OP, dont know how I managed to quote you instead. Mine dont flash though

People can do as they please with their lights. As long as they aren't shoving them up the king's arse or strangling puppies with them or similar of course, but otherwise they are free to have Xmas lights on all year round

It’s dark, cold and snowing.

Let people have their twinkly lights if they want.

Not coming down until the 6th.This year our entire street is still lit up,it’s fantastic.

Honestly I'm really enjoying seeing them still. It's so dark and gloomy, having a few lights up makes the world a bit more cheerful.

They sell them all year round now!

DD used to be really fussy but she likes hot cross buns, so we used to buy them a lot.

My neighbours put Christmas decorations up on 1st November, complete with flashy lights, flashy santas and reindeers and they were on all day - it was lovely and I missed them when they took them down on the 28th. We put our decorations up on 21st December and dh added flashy lights in the window on the 23rd, they will all be taken down on twelfth night and I will miss them.

Foolish OP 😁

My neighbour took down her outdoor lights yesterday and plunged us into darkness. Keep them twinkly until the light nights are back - have Christmas every day Slade said. (Not really, a couple of lights are nice though)

I have fairy lights in my yard, put there by my neighbour, and while they were hardly on at all over Christmas he sometimes has them on for months at a time, at any time of year. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. How does it affect you?

I always leave my decorations up well into January. In the past, I’ve left them up until February. January is a horrible month. I since found out about Candlemass as I’m not religious but it looks as if I was doing it right all along. But we don’t have flashing outside lights. Those are really annoying. I’d rather they were on or off. Have you asked your neighbours?

It's the same with Christmas songs - shops and radio stations start playing them from the middle of November, but come Boxing Day, they've vanished.

I do enjoy many of them, but it's irritating hearing Noddy Holder screaming "Iiiiiit's Chriiiiiiistmaaaaaaas!" when it isn't actually Christmas at all for another 4 weeks. I'd still take Noddy any day over Michael Buble, mind!