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

[sushibelt]

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

Whether they should be on all night or not (no to any flashing / intrusive lights) is a different argument as to whether the lights should still be on at all.

I'm sure that most people would agree with the first point, even if they don't the second.

Why are you pretending that you knew about decorations staying up until 12th night when it's pretty obvious that you didn't?

January is such a long, dull, tedious month that I wish everyone would leave their twinkly lights up a bit longer, just to get me through it.
We’ve kept our indoor lights up and they’re going in each evening until at least the end of March.

Maybe your neighbours with the big flashy lights are Christians? How do you know?

I love Christmas and my lights and decorations stay up until Twelfth Night.

Flashing lights are annoying and not at all Christmasy though. They remind me of the sort of lights you see in the seedier parts of town in grotty cafes, massage parlours and other places of ill-repute.

January is so awfully cold, wet and miserable that twinkly lights should be mandatory but they should be on the right setting!

My DCs are sensitive to light so they have both black out blinds and black out curtains. It makes a big difference to the light leakage around the edge.

Christmas lights until the 6th is culturally very normal. Some go beyond until Candlemas. It's nice to go a bit gentler and more understated if staying up longer rather than the full Noddy Holderesque "it's Chriiiiistmas" rave style.

I like using a couple of sets of lights, keeping one on static and one gently twinkling. Not too flashy. Plugged into timers so they're on about 3:30pm-11pm.

It sort of feels empty now the paramedic display has gone down. There's a bend in the road that each year aligns some blue lights with a maintainence van usually parked 3 doors down 😂

It's still school holidays until tomorrow and it's not 6th yet. So of course our lights are still on. There's only a few in the window though, it's not like Blackpool illuminations or something.

But it's not twelfth night yet.

January is a miserable month and lights are pretty. I don't understand why people start Xmas so early.
Ours go up later in December and stay til twelth night

Unless it's not Christmas until Boxing Day, which doesn't make a lot of sense, Twelfth Night is the 5th Jan.....

I agree with that. It's a waste of electricity and causes light pollution, neither of which are good for the planet.

It does make sense - it just gets a bit garbled by some

Twelfth Night is the last day of Christmas, and so your decorations are up.

6 Jan (ie the first day that is not part of the 12 days) is when they come down. And that coincides with Epiphany, so you can finish with a bit of (extra) celebration for the Kings - which can include the making/eating of a Kings Cake

(It's pretty much the same as having your Hallowe'en decorations up throughout the night of 31/10 and taking them down afterwards (ie 1/11))

Ever since Covid we have left our outside lights on all year. It lifts my spirits when walking home with the dog after an early morning walk in the dark to see the lights on. Also we have a long dark front garden, and the lights are helpful for the milkman when he comes round at 2am! They don't flash. And a lot less intrusive than the bright security lights I set off by walking up the middle of the road in the early morning! Times are grim enough, so a litle bit of coloured light is all to the good!

I'm looking for the perfect twinkling outdoor battery lights.
Most sets of battery lights give you 8 options but none are twinkling ☹️
They are flashing, intermittently flashing, just on etc but I just can't seem to find twinkling lights.
Any ideas wise Mumsnetters.

Nope, I’ve been looking for years. It’s weird because they all seem to have the twinkling setting on the first option but then it goes into rave central as it flashes through different settings.

No, not a complete scrooge. But quite a large proportion of a scrooge.

"They do seem to have the twinkling setting on the first option but then it goes into rave central as it flashes through different settings."

Love it 😂 @NewYearSameOldSameOld

Jeez they can get men on the moon but twinkling fairy lights - not a chance

So true. Gently twinkling is lovely but impossible to find. Those manically flashing ones are enough to bring on an epileptic fit, why would anyone want them, but some people even have that setting on their tree indoors!

Why so you can keep us all awake??

@sushibelt I was replying to your first post and title which did NOT mention anything about them being on ALL night, which is a "fact" you've subsequently added when this thread has not gone the way you wanted.

I obviously turn my lights off when I go to bed, as do 99% of people. If you're unlucky to have someone who doesn't, this may have been useful info to include in your opening rant

My Christmas' lights are winter lights, I keep them on from Oct - March to brighten the dark nights, they help cheer me up