Christmas Lights

Hi Lelin, of course not, have you any idea what electricity costs out here? Actually christmas isn't done out here but a couple of foreigners brought the tradition over with them and a few houses had a few lights a few years back. They didn't do it a second time though, I would think all the power cuts and rain on them blew their fuses.

Hello lelin, we do put lights up for Christmas infact we went ahead a few weekends ago and got them put up while the weather was still nice, we usually don't get the chance to get the lights up with it being so nice because it is ually snowing and cold right around Halloweenbut here it is three days before Thanksgiving and we have been fortunate enough now to have any snow yet and it hasn't been too cold. We are also the same as you and we put up the decorations and light all the lights the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Hi Lelin, If I had a house then I would decorate the outside with lights for Christmas. I live in an apartment so I can not. It looks so beautiful when the houses are all lit up. Are you going to post a pic when the lights are on?

No, i don't put up anything outside & to be honest very little inside, I have a friend that calls me scrooge because i never get the spirit anymore like i use to. I'm glad y'all at least wait till thanksgiving is over before u turn them on.

I do decorate the outside of the house with white icicle lights. This year I have also got some white/blue small round bulb lights that I will also put up with them. I will hang them from the guttering so that they go across the front of the house. I like when there is a gentle breeze and the icicles sway as it make them look really good and more noticable. I always wish that the full row of houses would put the same lights up, as then it would look really magical. I will put them up on or after December 1st. I think it's a bit silly when people put them up in November as, rather obviously, it is not Christmas.

Hi Lelin, In my country we start Christmas rather early, some put up their Christmas decors as early as September. I started putting mine after the Halloween, I already have a Christmas tree inside my house,in the living room. I'm planning to hang a Christmas star (we call it parol) outside the house. I used have put tiny lights Christmas lights at the gate but those were damaged by the typhoon that recently came to my country, so this holiday season I'll just make do with the big star. I like putting Christmas decors around the house as it sets the festive mood which lasts for at least 2 months - until the New Year.

No my Flat only gets decorated on the inside but even when I had my House we never decorated outside I do put Lights on the inside Windows to brighten up the Windows but that is all

We live in a rural area and would be the only ones to enjoy the lights if we were out after dark so we skip this decoration but do try to get into town to enjoy what others have done.

I don't usually decorate outside but I do a lot of decorating inside. I have a picture window in my livingroom and I tend to really dress it up. I put my decorations up either on the Thanksgiving weekend or the first week in December.

No, I don't decorate outside. I usually put my tree up around the first of December. I guess I just feel like it's still a little too early right now. I remember when we decorated a tree outside not long after we first moved out here. I was just a small child at the time. I noticed on my home from Messiah practice tonight that some people down the road from me had already put their decorations up outside.

i put up christmas lights outside but i just do it when i get to it, no certain time it is always after thanksgiving tho.i got them out saturday and checked to see if they still worked and most of them did.

We dont decorate the outside of our homes... we just have a little x'mas tree in the living room and that is enough for us :)