RE: House s with Xmas lights still up?

[texacokat]

 Giffster
And I thought it was cold today in Chicago....brrrrrr....
 
 Lights stay up (not lit) til a warm, non-windy day when you won t get blown off the ladder.  We routinely celebrate MLK day by taking down the tree and decorations inside; we bake cookies and play Christmas CDs.  See, we all have the day off and that s how we do it!

[MOcamper]

 Giffster
those aren t christmas lights just tacky lights on a house!  []

[colleen1017]

 Giffster
Our outside lights are still up too ( but not lit). It is not like it is too cold here to take then down ,it is just that we have not got around to doing it yet[8D]. Two years ago we left them up all year and they still worked when Christmas came around[]. Saved DH all the work of putting new ones up.

[cyclone]

 Giffster
I had to laugh when I saw this thread.  No outside lights for me this year (couldn t go up a ladder when it was time to put them up, so didn t bother).  And, I just realized I forgot to take the wreath down outside.  Tonight I was talking to a friend about the SNOW (we got 7 1/2 inches last week in TN) and she said she turned her lights back on since we actually had snow.  If it felt like Christmas, it needed to look that way, too!

[tahoecampers]

 Giffster
Ours stay up all year, but not lit. It was the only way I could get the DH to put up lights. He was fine with them, as long as we didn t take them down. We just bought new lights after Christmas, so I guess after the snow melts, the old ones will come down and the new ones will go up  []

[rednekrubbrduck]

 Giffster
We didn t put any lights up on the house...but finally took down our x-mas tree couple of days ago.

[ShirleyT]

 rednekrubbrduck
no lights outside this year, decorations and outdoor reindeer got snugly stored away right after new years. HOWEVER, I still have a christmas wreath on the back of my front door. A friend of mine sent me a real wreath for christmas, it is still green and I can t bring myself to throw it out until it falls apart from me closing the door

[Camperroo]

 rednekrubbrduck
my lights are still up and at this point the lights on the bushes are buried with snow so they ll have to wait till we have some melting.  This is the latest I ve ever left them up and on.  I did unplug them from inside the house though today...so no lights for us outside tonight!   I kind of like it though...I might leave one tree lit with small white lights for fun the rest of the year!!  I think it looks so pretty at night.

[Gamecock Camper]

 rednekrubbrduck
Well, it isn t too cold in South Carolina (it was around 68 degrees and beautiful today), but there is a house that has had their Christmas lights AND decorations up for the last 15 or so MONTHS.  They never took them down last year, but they did plug them in for Christmas this year..... I originally thought the house was abandoned or something....

[67_Skamper]

 rednekrubbrduck
Stil three trees up in our living room, but then they never go down, just remove the orinments and look like indoor greenery (trees are tall skinny evergreens in concert pots) but they still have the lights on them.
 
 Out side is just to cold, wreath, lights and graland around door are still up.