Have you got outdoor Christmas lights

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Have you got lovely Christmas lights that you put up each year to decorate the exterior of your house? If so, how? I can’t quite work out how people do it? Where do they plug them in? How do they reach the top of their houses etc etc? So many people seem to manage and yet it seems like a massive logistical issue to me!
What is your set up please?

Yes. We put the wire through a window to power them on the house and garage door for the garage lights.

They power from the garage and an outbuilding.

We power via an open window which we then close on the lead carefully.
We have lights running along the garage gutter, so not high, and also up a tree.
We have a long stick with a kind of hook on the end to get the lights on the tree.

Yes, we fitted outside plugs which made everything so much easier.

Power them through the garage. DH strings them up along the front of the garage and front of house each year. If DH didn't do it I certainly wouldn't do it.

We have a gutter over our bay window so can hang icicles from it. They plug in inside and the wire is fed out through a window. We also have silhouettes that attach to the inside of the downstairs windows with suckers.

There are businesses in my area of Scotland that advertise their services to hang Christmas lights from higher parts of your house if you didnt want to do it yourself

We run them out of one of the upstairs windows, down one side and all along our front fence.

This year I'm going to add an outdoor lit tree as well.

Outdoor plug with a built in timer but we only do lower level gutter not the top of the house. Our house has an apex at the front so it would be at the very top of the roof line not just above the bedroom window height. We have gutter hooks and Dh and one of our children put them up every year.

I have two bushes outside my front door that have outdoor lights at Christmas - but they’re battery operated.

This. Absolute game changer.

These are really helpful, thank you.

I put a string of lights in the tree in my courtyard. I love them. This is one of the things that 'makes' Christmas for me. This involves a ladder and some jiggery-pokery with a broom on a dry afternoon at dusk in early December. DD2 comes out to help me and it's become a sweet tradition.
The tree is next to the lean-to (like a conservatory but not quite). The cable from the lights goes in a window of the lean-to and plugs into a timer which plugs into a power point on the back wall of the house.
I unplug them on the day after 12th night but sometimes they stay in the tree for a little while longer ...
We put the Christmas tree in a front window of the house which is on a busy main road (no front garden) and foot path. And there endeth the 'outdoor' decorations.

I was you a few years ago!
I got a special plug point put on the outside of my house. I have hooks that I hang off the gutter and have connecting string lights that go alone. I stlll have a lot to learn!

battery operated lights to decorate the odd tree in the front that are on a timer.

I run the cable from outside under the garage door and into a socket, with or without a time switch depending on whether the lights have an inbuilt timer.
The strings are strung along the garage and porch gutters using cheap plastic gutter hooks.

The power cord goes through our letterbox. They're quite low, on our porch so putting them up only requires a step and there are already hooks in place. They did get a bit flappy in a storm last year though.

Yes. Lots.

we have a full tree in the front garden with lights and decorations on, along with a few little light up presents. Cables from those come out of the corner of the front room window - also from that window are the lights around the front door.

We also have the hanging icicle lights, although only at the level between the ground floor and first floor of the house as I don’t want my husband up a massive ladder for them. They’re a really long set, so they extend all the way across the house and garage.

I also put lights in the back garden, as our lounge and dining room look out the back so we can see Christmas that direction too.

No because we wouldn't be able to get them down again . The amount of houses with the lights on all years around here is staggering .
Good luck 🤞

We recently renovated what had been a derelict property and installed several outdoor plug sockets for this very reason. Also handy for plugging in the karcher, vacuum to clean the car and other electricals outside.

We don't have lights all over the house and roof like the Griswolds in Christmas Vacation. I mainly have some inside the front windows, some on the front drive and also solar outdoor lights up the trees.