Do you leave lights on at night?

[AlleyKat]

Just out of curiosity... do you leave any lights on at night, and if so, in what rooms?

We leave the chandelier that hangs over our kitchen table on all night. It is dimmer switch controlled so we're able to turn the lights down very low.

We also have a very small nighlight plugged into one of our hall outlets.

 

[FireDancer]

Nope, when I go to bed the house is completely dark. I do have some landscaping lights that are on a timer but they don't stay on all night. They turn off around 10pm.

 

[pooh4evr]

other than the nightlights in the kids rooms, and bathroom - evetything else is off- now my DMIL house they keep EVERYTHING - every light and the TV i the family room on all the time- when we go to visit DH and I are always the last ones out the door turning things off and at night too- until DFIl gets up for his midnight snack then everything is back on again!

 

[PeterPan09]

Just the light in the fish tank.

 

[Kathi OD]

No lights on at night in our house. I didn't grow up with night lights and neither did my kids. Grandkids are growing up in a night-light free zone also.

When we go to my mom's in the summer, and my sister's family is there, we can't sleep because they have to have the hall light on. Mom and Dad have one air conditioner that does the entire upstairs, so bedroom doors have to stay open in order for the rooms to get cool. That hall light is bright and keeps the rest of us awake. Cracks me up that she never needed a light on at night until she grew up.

 

[Micca]

In our old house we used to leave the light above the kitchen sink on all night . The kitchen was downstairs, the bedrooms upstairs and it was nice to be able to walk down the stairs into the kitchen at night/early morning and not walk into a completely dark room.

In our new home we don't leave any lights on all night.

 

[YorkshireDisneyFan]

We are guilty of letting the kids keep their night lights on (10 watts), our 13 year old now sleeps without the lights on but our 9 year old still has it on.

 

[jen0610]

Night light in the bathroom is always on at night.

Both DS15 and DD12 sleep with their lava lamps on.

And like my grandma, we have a strand of 50 christmas lights around the inside of the front door. There is enough light to see exactly who is standing in the doorway.

The skylight in the kitchen gets enough light from the City installed security light, that we don't need anything else in the kitchen.

 

[DeniseinNS]

No, that's wasting power and money. The only lights on are the kids nightlights.

 

[Carly_Roach]

We have a light-sensitive night-light in the kitchen that goes on when the kitchen is dark enough and a turtle night-light in the bathroom. It looks a little like this http://images.lampsplus.com/images/75576.fpx?cell=330,330&qlt=75&cvt=jpeg except the shell on ours is a frosted white glass that more closely resembled the actual shell of a turtle.

It's inexpensive and keeps me and DH from turning on the regular lights at night when we get up to go to the bathroom or get a drink of water in the kitchen. We're both light sleepers and are more likely to be awaked by a light coming on than we are by each other getting out of bed.