What times do you have your Christmas lights on from and to?

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Sorry if it’s already been asked.

Meaning specifically for the outdoor lights but feel free to comment for indoor lights if that’s different.

TIA

There was a guy from Which on TV this morning who said you could run a string of Christmas lights for 6hours each day until February and it would cost - less than 60p, can't remember exactly.

I was at a Christmas barn yesterday and there was a poster by the lights that stated that running 1000 lights for 8 hours a day for 30 days would cost 50p. But it was the manufacturer, assume though they should be quoting accurate figures.

Presumably TV guy was imagining a smaller strong of lights?

I need to Google Christmas Barn now. It sounds amazing.

4-10 on a timer. We’re up north and it’s pitch black by 4.
we have two sets of outside led lights. Each takes 4xAA batteries which last from 12 dec to 6 Jan on those times.

Oh yes, I just meant that they are pretty cheap to run full stop, not questioning what you/he said.

And the Christmas barn is great if you are near Oxford.

We havent done ours yet - will be this weekend . We have outside battery leds on outdoor Christmas tree , two trees either side of front door and a tree in front garden - they are all on timers 6hrs on , 18th said off,

Indoor tree lights , also led on every evening once tree up from 5ish til around midnight & then lights in front room Christmas display about the same

Where on earth do you live, where no-one has outdoor Christmas lights? I'm assuming a back-to-back terrace with no front garden? You could still put an inflatable santa on the roof

Yeah exactly! There's nowhere that has no outside Christmas lights. At LEAST a few properties in every village, hamlet, road, avenue, cul de sac, street, etc etc etc, will have a handful of homes with Christmas lights outside!

3pm (so they are on when the DC get home from school) until 10pm.

Whoops I worded that a bit funny! SHOULD have read.................

Yeah exactly! There's nowhere that has no outside Christmas lights. At LEAST a few properties in every village, hamlet, road, avenue, cul de sac, street, etc etc etc, will have Christmas lights outside!

Husband has gone over the top again, currently have over 12500 outdoor fairy lights, he’s paying the electricity bill 😂 looks magical though !

Ooooh I bet that looks amazing! I don't know how many we have got. Probably about 4000 including everything outside, and inside. We have had this many for a few years now though, and it honestly doesn't add that much to the electric bill. (About half are electric, half battery.) Probably costs an extra ten to twelve pounds for the 6 weeks they're up. AND maybe £20 worth of batteries. We put them all the batteries in the battery lights the last week in November, and they last 3 weeks, and then we put a second set in for the next 3 weeks.

I think they are a lot cheaper to run than people realise to be honest. Anyone who says it's disrespectful to people who can't afford their bills can jog on. We don't smoke, we don't buy designer clothes/£1500 phones/apple watches, we rarely drink booze, we last went abroad in 2018, and we have a 7 year old car (between us!) So we will put as many fucking lights up as we want to.

I mean, where do you draw the line (by saying people shouldn't put lights up because others can't afford the energy bills?') Have a go at people for buying a house because some people cannot afford to buy, and have to keep renting? Stop people buying new cars, because most people can only afford a 15 year old Fiat 500? Stop people going abroad, because some people can only afford a day trip to Rhyl?!'

Having a go at someone for spending money on something because 'some people can't afford it' is batshit. If people stop spending at all, the economy will crash! Anyway, as has been said, the lights don't cost much to run anyway. And many people (like me) already had the lights so didn't have to fork out to buy them.

doing ours next weekend, usually have them on from 4-10pm. Any longer than that and I worry we’d piss off neighbours - I hate any light in my bedroom but have shutters and sleep at the back of the house so not really affected by anyone else’s lights. Neighbours sleep in the front bedroom and we have lights that go right up to her fascia (is that what it’s called?!).

7-9am and 3-9pm.

Set to come on at 3.15pm so they’re on when the DC get home from school, then off when we go to bed so 11ish.

Nightfall if I remember until I go to bed assuming I remember to turn off

usually around 4.30 until about 11 pm

Our outdoors lights are on 6:30-8:30am, then from 4-10:30pm.

They're on smart plugs. LED lights use very little electricity. Talking pennies not pounds.

Indoor ones from when I get up to when I go to bed , we don’t have outside ones but my sister puts hers on from 4:30 to 10 ish

From when it gets dark and it was until we went to bed but I might turn them off a bit earlier this year. Perhaps 10.

Our icicle lights have a built in timer but It’s 8 hrs on 16 hrs off. So come on at 4 off at 12. Ideally I’d like on for 6 hours but one of the plugs goes into bedroom so can’t go in to manually switch them off.

The other ones I have a manual timer, so just have them go off all at the same time
But I suppose I could get another manual timer and by pass the pre-set timer.