When do you turn your outside Christmas lights on?

[Fieldday26]

AIBU to ask when normally turn your outside lights on?

Same time as in side / put tree up or earlier?

Much earlier than inside.
Outside lights go up towards the end of November and go on the same day as the town lights.
Inside decorations only go up around the end of term.
The white outside lights however do stay up to Feb half term!

Same as inside.
Around 15th December, usually the closest Saturday to it.
Down on 6th Jan.

Our general lights outside are in and off as I feel the want to light up my life outside a bit. The inflatable Santa and that won’t be out till December.

We have lights on our hedges and in our garden now. But we don't decorate the house.

Outside lights/decorations go up and on in early December otherwise it's not worth all the effort for a week or two

Inside over the last few years I've started to put out a few ornamental decorations on the shelves/dresser but the actual tree never goes up before December 13th.

I'll probably put our outside lights up the last weekend in November, then switch them on on the 1st. Inside we only really do a tree so will do that one weekend in Dec when we have time.

First weekend in December.

We generally put the outside lights on the same weekend that the tree goes up/ we decorate inside. This year it will be either the weekend of 21st or 28th November. I love seeing Christmas lights, it really cheers up the dark evenings.
We'll switch off all the Christmas themed ones on the 12th night, although the softly twinkling lights in our big tree will be switched to static and remain on until Candlemas.

I don't have them, I can't see them so there's no point!
Also consider your neighbours, having someone else's lights shining in to your house all hours is awful!

Start of December . Same as inside . Not before . Certainly never in November

Nornally around 15th December but I would prefer from the first December (if we got our act together) as I like to see them lighting up the dark early evenings.

Inside Xmas starts second week of December but outside earlier lights ...dress outside later

First of December or the weekend before

Around middle of December usually day after internal lights as that is when DH is in a Xmasy mood! He does it when I’m at work it’s lovely driving down road and seeing them

We’ve started putting ours up today and will add more next weekend but don’t plan on turning them on just yet

I knew there would be one. They are fine white twinkly lights, not Blackpool illuminations.

Sometime in December. At least get the month right

All decs (Inc outside lights) go up first weekend of double figures in Dec so this year it will be 12th/13th Dec.

Ahh this did make me laugh! 😁

As if the lights are going to be 'shining in' to anyone's windows living opposite.

Plus the majority of people tend to close their blinds/curtains when it gets dark.

I decorate the house a couple of weeks before hand. This year it’s likely to be around 11th December.

It’s fine here. Only kitchens face each other.

But I doubt my twinkly warm white lights are overly offensive.

The local children love them and even asked while we were taking down Halloween if that meant our Christmas lights where about to come out.

Depends where you live. I would like outside lights when the clocks go back as we live in an unlit cul-de-sac and it is very dark.

1st December.

We don't. They'd get nicked in our neighborhood 😂

We switch them on inside the same day at outside. Bit odd to do it on different days.