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.

I do wish people wouldn't use flashing blue Christmas lights outside their houses. It can be quite dangerous - and very frustrating - when you pull over to let the ambulance or fire engine through; only to discover that it's actually just a bunch of lights outside somebody's home, alongside a flippin' giant inflatable Homer Simpson or dinosaur!

@Allswellthatendswelll and this is our place we make the rules 🫶🏻

Actually that was Wizzard!

Brilliant typo! 😄

It's still Christmas untill 6,th January. Just because you decide to take them down early it didn't mean every one else had to.

We have fairy lights up all year, love them on days like this when it’s cold and it’s clear we will be staying in.

What do you mean by not be bothered to take them down yet? It’s still Christmas. How do people get through life not knowing the basics of what’s going on?

Which falls on 2nd February.

I’ve seen a Christmas tree outside a church left up until then.

Quite legitimate to leave them up until Candlemas in early Feb.

Exactly.

People put their stuff up ludicrously early and then take it down before Christmas is even over.

@PokerFriedDips Hot cross buns in Sainsburys, you say?!

Roll on 10am when they open, that's breakfast, lunch and tea sorted for today!

Expecting someone to take decorations down before the end of Christmas is very unreasonable

Keeping them up until Candlemas is a rarer tradition, but one I’d be tempted to embrace

12th night IMO it's the people who puts them up in November that ruins it.

It’s still Christmas!

Afraid to say I bought a giant inflatable gingerbread man (with Santa hat of course) after hearing how the Gdcs coveted it. Their first choice would have been a green dinosaur ditto, but a close neighbour already had one, so they didn’t want to be copycats.

Lol, not even the epiphany yet.

I like to have ours down before we're all back to normal, so we'll put the last of them away today but that's just a practicality thing.

In January 2021 when we went back into lockdown, there was a movement in Ireland to "keep the lights on" and everyone kept their outdoor lights up for January to give the place a bit of a lift. I think some still do that and I quite like it - January is miserable enough as it is.

Get a grip?? There have been flashy lights over the road since about December 14th!

They don't have to be on all night though do they

Why so you can keep us all awake??

If they’re tasteful warm, golden fairy lights on an otherwise dark house in the winter I’m all for keeping them up! My street looks so much prettier and welcoming at night.

I'd love it if that's what we had. I can't post a video of them or it would be outing. We have to put up with flashing coloured lights. And they're on ALL NIGHT.

I don't think the bible said that was a requirement.

Ps agree they shouldn’t flash and they should switch off at by 11pm.

Summary: simple, warm-yellow fairy lights, with no flashing setting, turned on between 5-11pm can stay up through the winter.

I second your motion

14 Dec to 6 Jan is pretty much the default Christmas decoration period.

Is it?

Do they have to be on ALL night?