Now that we're two months out from Christmas I'm curious how many Christmas light stragglers we still have around Lincoln. This is the first winter in my memory where I excuse the slackitude. I mean let's be fair, it has been a rather cold winter and there has been snow on the ground since mid-December. I can only think of a couple good light-taking-down days in the past two months.
On the other hand, I'm not crazy about turning on your Christmas lights in February, which is what my neighbors still do. Call me a grinch, but February just doesn't scream "Christmas spirit" to me. Maybe it should. Still, I cringe each time I look out our front window.
Do you still have your Christmas lights and/or displays up, and if so do you still light them each evening? How 'bout your neighbors?
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I’ve noticed a lot of lights still up/on this year too.
The snow and cold weather does excuse not taking them down, but February is way too late to still be turning them on.
Christmas lights in february don’t bug me anymore than christmas lights at christmas do: that is, only slightly.
Several of our neighbors still have lights up but stopped turning them on somewhere around mid-January. What does bug me is several still have Christmas decorations outside of their house, including wreaths, toy trains, Santa pigs, etc. It wouldn’t take much, if any, effort to take those inside.
Lights aren’t just for Christmas anymore. You can buy lights for all holidays now.
We put our lights up on the inside of our house at Christmas and they are still up. We like to turn them on at night because they give a nice soft light that is perfect to watch t.v. by.
Yeah, I still have one strand out on my bushes, but it is frozen solid to the ground.
Mine are still up for a couple of reasons - one, there’s always been some snow on the roof, and I won’t go two stories up to slide off. Y’all would miss me too much.
Secondly, the stuff on the ground is still firmly iced into my shrubbery. The candy canes that I could remove were removed. Everything else is still buried. But no, they have not been on since about January 5.
For whatever reason, I think it’s awesome and comical that your neighbors still turn on their Christmas lights. At least you don’t live next to one of those guys that has a huge light display set to music.
Wha?? Did you just slip a “Santa Pig” in there? Gonna need to see a picture of that!
Yes indeed, mine are still up. I have an automatic thing-a-ma-jigger that turns them on when it is dark. i plugged it in a week before Thanksgiving and unplugged it on MLK day. I wish it were socially acceptable to keep them on all year.
We decorate the inside of the house in November, and take down the Christmas items in January, but leave our “winter” themed items up until it gets warm outside again in spring.
Our Santa is frozen to the ground.. he isn’t going anywhere!
“Santa Pig, Santa Pig! Does whatever a Santa Pig does!”
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