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az4code23
09-26-2009, 07:28 PM
Just another curious thread. How many of you leave your Christmas lights up on your house year round? I do. :D They haven't come down in the last 10 years. Anyone else?
Steelers5
09-26-2009, 08:24 PM
The bigger question is. Do you leave them on :)

I do leave them up. Live in the northeast and change few bulbs.
orlandofed5-0
09-26-2009, 09:02 PM
No. Iam jewish. :D I also do not leave the menorah up year round.
ateamer
09-26-2009, 09:11 PM
I did for a couple years. Our house is a real pain to put up or remove lights, so I just left them up. One afternoon my trainee saw the lights and commented on how trashy it was to leave the lights up year 'round. I told her it was my house. She looked at me and said, "well, take the lights down - it looks trashy." (She was a lateral from within the county and more of a partner than trainee, so she was well within bounds saying it.)

I finally took the lights down and threw them in the trash - too much bother every year.
RR_Security
09-26-2009, 09:33 PM
Most years, July 2nd is "the exact middle day of the year." (182 days past, 182 days ahead for the year.) That's the day I consider our Christmas lights have gone from "being up late" to "being up early." :p

Actually, they're just a PITA to take down and put back up, so I've left them up. I don't think we've plugged 'em in for at least two years now. The OL used to like doing decorations, but I don't think she'd get on a ladder to escape a burning building, so guess who had to climb up and string the "icicle" lights along the eaves almost nine years ago. At least we never got to the Lighted, Animated Santa and Reindeer Chorus Line on-the-roof-peak stage. :rolleyes:
Monkeybomb
09-26-2009, 10:01 PM
Stopped putting them up. Its hard enough to find time to put them up much less take them down in the snow and ice. But my wife has at least two christmas trees the go up right after turkey day and come down sometime in January.

The interior of the house looks like Santa puked.
Kieth M.
09-26-2009, 10:16 PM
Back in CA, the lights went up the day after Turkey Day and were removed the first week of January.

After our relocation to CO my wife, Mrs. M. the Christmas addict, insisted the same protocol be followed...now on a two story house where I can crawl out the loft window and actually place my over 50 lower limbs on a 45 degree while holding a string of lights in my teeth and as Monkeybomb says, it's cold, or there's snow here. My hands are always freezing. I'm using words my children, let alone the neighbors, shouldn't hear coming from the usually mild-mannered Kieth M.

I have created some handy tools to help get the job done, but (mark my words) it's going to lead to a serious injury for me, probably, one day.

At the same time, there are companies here on the front range who will put up their lights on your home using scissor lifts and scaffolds, but we're not shelling out 500-1000, or so, bucks for that service.
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You remind me of another Christmas story, though. When we lived in Arcadia (CA) I would drive down Duarte Road past a complex of ground floor duplex-type apartments. I watched one Christmas tree remain up, die, and shed needles inside one of those apartments until the following August!
Smurfette_76
09-26-2009, 10:35 PM
I like Christmas. I do NOT like looking like Santa done sh*t all over my house (inside or out). Lights are pretty, but I'm not the one climbing on my ladder to put them up. I have NEVER told my husband to put them up. I never will.
mikeymedic
09-26-2009, 10:48 PM
If it wasn't for a dam HOA I would love to have lights up all year round....cause I'm lazy.
Southflaguy
09-26-2009, 10:49 PM
We did once, but afte a while the houses looked tacky...If a hurricane comes by we would have to take it down, putting up the shutters is a PITA itself...
913
09-27-2009, 03:56 PM
Kind of white trash. Reminds me of Randy Quaid in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Something he would do, if he had a house.
lpstopper
09-27-2009, 09:30 PM
We used to leave em up for a few months after xmas.
Jere
09-28-2009, 10:57 PM
There is a house on the way to my parent's that leaves the tree in the window and lit until Easter. It is put up the day after Halloween. The outside decorations stay up there. I myself haven't decorated for Christmas in years. I always work Christmas and I live by myself.
99 Fenix
09-30-2009, 01:04 AM
"cuz im a redneck woman, i aint no high class broad..."
Sheepdog110
09-30-2009, 02:25 AM
My three foot high synthetic Christmas tree has been sitting on top of my broken air hockey table for about three years. That is the only Christmas decoration I own and I'm quite happy about that. No, the lights have never been plugged in and I like it that way. ;)

On a side note, Christmas is overrated. It has lost the meaning that it once had and quite frankly it sickens me. I like to pray on Christmas instead of blowing a ton of cash on crap that people probably don't want anyway.

Yep, I'm a grinch.
ford123
09-30-2009, 03:17 AM
If you leave your Christmas lights, on your house, year round, you are definetely a redneck. Not that there is anything wrong with that...But you are in fact red on the neck..
az4code23
09-30-2009, 12:53 PM
Yeeep. I leave my christmas lights out all year long on my john deere colored trailer. And that's the truth. lol I'll post some pics today or tomorrow.
ateamer
09-30-2009, 01:14 PM
If you leave your Christmas lights, on your house, year round, you are definetely a redneck. Not that there is anything wrong with that...But you are in fact red on the neck..
<-------------Nothin' wrong with a little shading between the collar and head, says the Blue State Redneck.
brn2reign
09-30-2009, 01:46 PM
My three foot high synthetic Christmas tree has been sitting on top of my broken air hockey table for about three years. That is the only Christmas decoration I own and I'm quite happy about that. No, the lights have never been plugged in and I like it that way. ;)

On a side note, Christmas is overrated. It has lost the meaning that it once had and quite frankly it sickens me. I like to pray on Christmas instead of blowing a ton of cash on crap that people probably don't want anyway.

Yep, I'm a grinch.

Scrooge! :p

j/k, I know what you mean though. Christmas morning had a better feel when I was a kid and also the days leading up to it. Even the cartoons were better.
az4code23
09-30-2009, 01:48 PM
my lights


http://image.beyluxe.com/pictures/eba1893762ff8e2939e3ec98aa6aa5b9.jpg
grumpyirishman
10-02-2009, 11:15 AM
Lights?? Why waste the money?:confused:

A two-foot fake tree on the table is it...:eek:
913
10-03-2009, 01:46 AM
Keep milking this thread like some of my colleagues milk calls, and it will be Christmas time.
Sheepdog110
10-03-2009, 07:32 AM
Scrooge! :p

j/k, I know what you mean though. Christmas morning had a better feel when I was a kid and also the days leading up to it. Even the cartoons were better.

I guess that now that I'm an adult I don't think of Christmas as a way to milk items from others. What a selfish way to think of how to celebrate the birth of Christ. I get the symbolism with giving gifts and everything, but in my family it's almost a contest of who can spend the most cash. I say it's a bunch of crap.

Christmas is supposed to be about Christ, not buying stuff for everyone. It's more of an obligation these days than it is to help someone else feel good because you cared enough to get them a little something. Granted, if your heart is in the right place then kudos to you. If not, well... that's really none of my business, is it? ;)

Back on track though, we have a guy in town that leaves his lights LIT all throughout the year. I keep getting confused when it's 1am, I'm sweating because it's hot, and I see "Merry Christmas" lit up on his roof like it's December 20th. (December 20th is usually cold in Nebraska)