do you leave your tree lights on every night?

[ogreenlee]

i have always unplugged mine whether the tree is real or not.

curious as to how many folks leave theirs on.

 

[pigletgirl]

Ours are on a timer. They go off at midnight.

 

[Bunchkin]

Ours are on a remote control. They go off when we go to bed.
The only night they stay on all night is Christmas Eve. The kids think it helps Santa find his way!

 

[ogreenlee]

Ours are on a timer. They go off at midnight.

duh, i'm too dumb to think of a timer.

thanks! i'm going to get one of those tomorrow. no more crawling on the floor for me trying to reach that darn plug!!

 

[Meriweather]

Off every night except Christmas Eve.

 

[pigletgirl]

yeah, i would be tripping all over the place! probably knocking over the tree as well!

they are really handy!

 

[ilovejack02]

I never unplug the trees , all fake.

 

[laurie31]

Our lights are plugged into a power strip, which goes to an outlet connected to a switch. (normally a lamp is plugged in there). All we have to do to turn the tree lights on and off is...flip the switch.

We turn them off when we go to bed.

I hadn't thought about leaving them on all night on Christmas Eve, but since we're up WAY later than the kids that night (they have to go to bed so "Santa" can come) the kids wouldn't know if we'd turned them off or not!

 

[MIGrandma]

I always unplug the tree, and all other holiday lights around archways, etc. before we go to bed. And unplug them if we go out for the evening too. I wouldn't feel comfortable at all leaving them plugged in when no one is around.

 

[OK!]

No. I'm way too afraid of something happening overnight and them catching fire. I do turn them on every evening when I'm home, but they get turned off before I go to sleep.

The LED lights outside on the deck stay on all night, though.

 

[eduk8r26]

They are only plugged in when I am home. Otherwise, unplugged.

 

[anewmac]

All lights get unplugged.. well we have a foot switch with a long cord (Target) love it and the outsides lites have a remote control so I dont have to run out there when its cold LMAO

 

[The Princess]

Always unplug the tree. My dd would never sleep if it was on all night.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Off and unplugged at night, every year you see at least one story of a family being killed because of christmas tree light fires.

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1917308.0/

 

[NatashaDisneyCM]

I have always, not just christmas. Used timers...I use them on my porch, my cabinets, christmas window candles and trees. I cannot be bothered to put them off. maybe more that I just do not have the time! lol

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

i would love to leave the tree on all night but DH won't have any of that. he, too, is afraid that something will catch on fire as well.

but we do leave them on all night on Christmas Eve/Day

 

[WeLuvDiz]

I always unplug the tree, and all other holiday lights around archways, etc. before we go to bed. And unplug them if we go out for the evening too. I wouldn't feel comfortable at all leaving them plugged in when no one is around.

Us Too

 

[pilotwife_02]

I turn off all the inside lights off as well, the tree and mantle light are on a remote so I just have one button to push so I don't have to crawl to unplug them. The other various lights are easy to unplug.

Outside lights are on a timer.

 

[Rora]

We always turn ours off before we go to bed.

 

[lovesmurfs]

We don't unplug our artificial tree lights -- we plug them into a socket that's controlled by our living room light switch. Works really well!