They are finally down, and I am glad

[Dan Murphy]

Yesterday was in the 60's here and I took down all the outside Christmas lights. And NO, we have not had them lit since the 3rd week in January, our typical. It has just been either too cold, snowy (frozen till a few weeks ago), rainy/muddy, or I was just too lazy on the few days the weather was good.

With yesterday in the spring-like 60's , I got them all down and put away. Glad I did, now it is 25º.

Anybody else still have theirs up, or were we the last DIS'ers with lights coming down?

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[Robinrs]

Mine are down but my decorations are still in boxes in my living room! I have been promising myself to get them out in the storage area forEVER!

 

[helenabear]

LOL, our last set of Christmas stuff finally came down last weekend... I needed my DH's help though with some of it since I was too short to reach it all

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

*heavy sigh* Dan Dan Dan.........Christmas Lights turn into Valentines lights turn into St Pat's day lights turn into Easter lighting, turns into 4th of July lights, turns into Halloween lights turns into Thanksgiving lights and back into Christmas lights.

No need to take those buggers down!


(at least that's the way my hillbilly neighbors seem to be handling THEIR outside holiday lighting!)

 

[winniedapooh]

Nope Dan, we got the last stakes out of the ground and lights down last weekend! The very last pole for a huge string of lights came out of the frozen ground today! It took us 3 weekends to put it all up and then several months to take it all down, lol.

 

[disneyluvers]

We didn't put lights up outside this year. With natural gas prices what they were we couldn't afford a larger than average electric bill on top of everything else.

I did, however, manage to get my wreath off of the front wall of our house just last week. It had frozen and there was no way I could get it off until it thawed (I had to wait for warmer temps or else buy a ungodly long extension cord - I chose the former). Does that count?

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Dan, You need to hire someone to put them up and take them down for you. That's what my parents did this year and they were very happy to not have to do all of that climbing.

 

[Feralpeg]

Dan, normally I am one of those wierd people that decorate for every holiday. My neighbors have come to expect it. I do the really big thing for Halloween and Christmas, and smaller things for other holidays. I almost always use lights. Red, white and blue for 4th of July, pastels for Easter, green and white for St. Patricks, red and white for Valentines Day. Not so this year. Since the house is for sale, I'm trying to appear normal. Very difficult for me!

 

[TigrLvsPooh]

DH got ours down yesterday too. Just in time because it snowed again today.

 

[DocRafiki]

no, Dan... JUST YOU!

 

[Disney Doll]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, the wreath that was on our chimney on the side of the house actually fell off by itself today!!!!! I htink it finally decided to take matters into its own hands!!!!!!

Christams lights are on the bushes...have been for 3 years straight now. This year we have to take them off though, or they won't be visible next Christams, as the bushes will have grown too much around them!!!! They are no longer plugged in, so I don't think anyone else realizes that they are still there!!!!!

 

[faithinkarma]

No need to take those buggers down!

None whatsoever. Hang the Easter decorations over them in the spring. If you get lucky, the summer vegetation will disguise them. And the Halloween decorations will hide them until it is appropriate to have them showing again.

Of course, I also leave all my clocks, except the bedside one, permanently on daylight savings time.......why change them? It is just going to switch back again before you know it.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, the wreath that was on our chimney on the side of the house actually fell off by itself today!!!!! I htink it finally decided to take matters into its own hands!!!!!!"

LOL I can see it up on the side of the house thinking to itself "I can take it anymore all the neighbors pointing and laughing, even the birds are mocking me and just look at those Easter Decorations all pretty pastels.... JUST YOU WAIT BY 4TH OF JULY THIS WILL BE YOU....thats it I'm outta here"

 

[Nutsy]

Nope not here Ours have been down since the fist week in January

 

[Dan Murphy]

Well, glad I am not alone. See, Doc.

Jenn, it was not difficult, only took about 15 minutes, all on low everrgreen bushes, none on house, too old for that, LOL. But your folks do have a good idea.

 

[mommytotwo]

Our Christmas lights came down this month and we did put them on once after the Christmas holiday for my daughter when we were outside during the evening, but we don't live in a neighborhood so no one cared.

 

[ShuisFan584]

My mom would go crazy if they weren't down right after the new year, before she went back to work. So my dad always has to take them down on New Years.

 

[Mamu]

I think the extreme cold prevented most people from removing them this year.

I know my yard was a sheet of ice. It wasn't worth breaking a bone just too remove Christmas Decorations.