Turning off Christmas lights at night???

I choose the modern option of using LED lights which is very cost effective.

OP has STATED HER BOUNDARIES.

Well, it does seem counter-intuitive.

I use LED and a timer from dusk to 11pm. No one driving after 11pm is looking at Christmas lights. I'm not lit up like the Griswold house, but I also find the lights can be a distraction when I am trying to sleep.

OP needs a midol.

R5 I just hate cheap cunts. You mines well put your Christmas lights up on Christmas Eve and then just leave them on all day for Christmas if you that fucking by thrifty.

How much spiked eggnog has OP/R6 consumed by 9am Eastern time?

Once more in English, R6?

Light pollution every night from Halloween through Valentine's Day!

Teacake OP is not well this morning, apparently.

Mine are all on a timer. They shut off at midnight. If you want to see Christmas lights after midnight, you’ve got problems.

R10 I’m good my dear. How are you this morning?

R11 😂

OP, no one wants extra light shining in their windows as they’re trying to sleep. And then there’s that nitpick, climate change, which might dictate added thoughtfulness in our energy consumption.

OP, I saved so much energy, I don't even put the goddamn things up!

R14 Oh please. Get some quality curtains you frugal cunt. Why defend this behavior? You must be a nighttime Christmas cutter. Please just go.

You’re supposed to leave them on until dawn or you will be visited by Sam - a goblin who dresses for Christmas as a snowman - who murders you with jagged candy canes.

R17 You probably aren’t wrong. They are many potential superstitions that form when you commit yourself to Christmas decorations. But when you distort the process bad things can occur. It’s just stupid. Leave the lights on. Why risk it?

Teacake go take a walk

R16 Yeah, there will be no curtains in my home. What next? Plastic on the furniture? A macrame plant hanger?

Why do you give a flying fuck about what other people do in their own homes?

OP needs to find other forms of entertainment. What does he obsess over during the other ten months of the year?

R22 Obsession - no. Try harder next time. It’s a tacky, classless thing to do. And throws off landmarks for travelers disrupting holiday traffic.

Lay off the Xanax and eggnog, r23, they’re not a good combo. How does it throw off landmarks for travelers, exactly? The sky is not falling, and holiday traffic isn’t disrupted.

Op what a Xmas bitch you turned out to be.

It’s no sweat off of your microscopic nuts to sit and bitch about someone else’s lighting display that you didn’t have fuck to do with.

OP thinks people who (sensibly, responsibly) shut their decorations off during the night are dumb cunts.

OP does not mention putting up lights, let alone keeping them on or turning them off.

OP, nonetheless, bitches about what "cheap cunts" others are who did put up the fucking lights.

Unsurprisingly.

I had a business client and a bunch of their employees whined they wanted Christmas decorations, so to everyone's surprise the cheap prez sprung for a huge Christmas tree that barely fit in the twenty-something foot tall entryway. Shitload of lights. Left them on overnight, at 3am the automatic alarm and sprinklers went off, did a couple of million dollars damage. No more Christmas decorations.

This is pre-LED, which are unlikely to start a fire, but the AC to DC power supplies could, so there's that.

Listen, those lights are there for me, me, me!

I put mine up the days leading up to the solstice (today).

I set the time dusk to dawn until Epiphany when I turn them off and take them down.

Happy, OP? Not all of us are “Christmas” celebrators.

This thread is at least one horseman.

R24 Because when you tell someone to park in front of the house with the imagery of Mary and Joseph carrying baby Jesus to Bethlehem, and then the cheap ass owners turn off the lights at 1031 pm and your guests arrive at 107am and are confused and parks by the wrong house with different Christmas decorations. Just leave them on at night. This is an affluent neighborhood. How can you be THAT thrifty.

Op should just wear a sleep mask in his home 24/7

R33 No bitch that’s the problem. I want to see the fucking lights when I go outside my house at night. It also disrupts my OCD because about half the block has Christmas decorations, and among those homes, half turn them off at night. Some before 11pm like the cunt I cited above. It makes people forget and perhaps even speculate you are no longer in Christmas spirit when they can clearly see the decorations and cords with no lights illuminating from them.

Living in Australia means it’s summer here so all our Xmas LED lights run on little solar powered batteries that charge during the day. Because we have daylight savings, they don’t come on till about 9pm once it’s dark enough.

Merry Christmas r35

Hope your crotch rots shut (if it hasn’t already).

R34 Hope your crotch rots shut (if it hasn’t already).

Merry Christmas to r35

R37 No take backs. You see, you are just as bad as Christmas cutters. Own up to what you stated and stand on it.

Zzzzzzz.

OP is a FREAK

R40 A TeaFreak!

I don’t want to dry out the tree more than it has to. I have a Real tree. Every year.

[quote]A Real Tree

A real tree dying in your living room.

I think Xmas trees are tacky. All of them. The once live. The green plastic toilet brush. The little tabletop.

Abominations all.

R44 is one step away from driving a car through a Christmas market.

I'm with OP and I can't be the only one. It's not as if LED lights cost anything significant to leave on. Watching Netflix costs more.

OP has small aircrafts landing in his front yard by mistake. Also needs a LOT of attention.

I have mine set up as movement detectors so when any of my neighbors skulk around at night the whole flashing swirling Christmas circus of spotlights and gun noises go off.

Merry Christmas!!!

Everyone is different about how economical they are. I had a dear sweet aunt who lived her entire life pinching pennies and it was a lot of time and work, from my point of view. And she was comfortably upper middle class. That's just the way she was. She was also sweet and kind and I think perhaps genius IQ. Maybe it was her outlet to keep her brain amused and occupied. My father, her brother, was very cost concious and also upper middle class. They had been raised quite poor. My father amused himself being a human calculator when shopping. He would figure out in his brain the unit price of everything and also the final bill. But he wasn't exactly a penny pincher - i mean he would buy quality. He just wanted to know the price of everything and I suppose he had long figure out that buying the more expensive item nevertheless had VALUE payoff to him, either quality, or pleasing his family, or buying American (he was big on that).

R48 Ha brilliant!

R49 WTF does that have to do with the topic of Christmas lights?

R51, that’s a round-about way of telling us his very middle class aunt likes to unplug neighbor’s outdoor lights and hook her vape and Tata Nano up to the outlet. It saves her money.

R51 the relation to christmas lights is that some people are very tight and it obviously bugs them to leave lights burning longer than the bare minimum they deem required.

Artificial outdoor lighting of any kind at night is bad for wildlife.

It never stopped me.

Fuck off Peta. There is no wildlife except raccoons.

R49 I respect your family members. They seem like upstanding citizens. With that being said, never let frugality trump class.

Light pollution harms wildlife and ecosystems (article at link)

R58 No mountain lions around these parts. I don’t live in a mansion lol. However you convinced me as I am a genuine animal lover.

My word, stringing Christmas lights up all the my home is festive and good-hearted Christian. I string thousands of "slightly used" lights I get on sale at the Wal-Mart all around my trailer, the chicken coop, and even Billy-Joe's old pickup on those there cinder blocks. It's like we all made enchantment. And it's so classy and tasteful too!

Was it worth the effort?

There is a house in a better-than-average housing development on a golf course near me and one of the houses has, according to a local news story a few days ago, half a million lights strung on and around it.

Big, inflatable, automated figures and a no-so-small train large enough for children to ride on are crammed together taking up every inch of space on the lawn and roof. People from miles away come and gawk, crawling by in a constant parade of cars, some stopping to take pictures of themselves in their ugly Christmas sweaters with the lights as the backdrop.

The only thing I can think of when I drive by the entrance to the neighborhood and see the line of cars waiting to turn in and out is how furious I would be if one of my neighbors did such a thing. I assume you can’t stop them but I would risk being charged with filing frivolous lawsuits and sue him for anything and everything I could come up in an effort to try.

Of course, there is a big sign in front of it all directing gawkers to a St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital website where they can donate money, though the sign serves mainly to shield this asshole from criticism coming from people like myself, but that wouldn’t stop me.

It’s just completely inconsiderate of your neighbors. I hate HOAs and would never be a part of one, but if I lived next door to something like that I would be running for a seat on the board like my life depended on it so I could put a stop to it.

There’s no need for lawsuits, R62. There are other ways to shut it down.

A display like that would last one night in my neighborhood.

R63 = Mrs. Patsy Ramsey, formerly of Boulder, CO.

We’re on a quiet side street full of families with little kids. Lights timer is 4pm to 10pm. OP comes across as a bit of a wackjob.

R62 Brevity, dear

R65 Of course I’m a wackjob. Who else would make such a post. 😂 The animal lover did convince me though. To walk down the street at 11pm and see unlighted lights makes me think the family or home occupants have lost their Christmas spirit.

Remember when DL used to have good campy, non political threads. Cheap cunts.

OP sounds unhinged. I have candles in all my windows and a string of lights (all white) along the railing of the front porch. They are on a timer and are lit from 5 to 11 pm. No need to keep the house all light up overnight.