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I third it.

I don't think anyone is saying YOU MUST TAKE DOWN YOUR LIGHTS ! People are just pointing out that they think it looks tacky. Keep you lights on until june if you want, and rent that brown tuxedo with massive lapels for your wedding if you so please too. It's not about what you are and aren't ALLOWED to do.

If you want lights down and off by now, move to oakville, or newmarket, or old milton.

I have mine down only because I had somebody nagging (er, asking) me to take them down She keeps me in line so I don't anger the neighbours with extremely offensive exterior lights. hehe

Personal opinion, I don't mind seeing them still up and on when there's snow on the ground.

WHAT I DO MIND... is laziness and lack of pride in how your home looks.
The problem is that it is impossible to tell exactly why people have their lights up. But if their lights are up in April, their grass is dead, there are newspapers scattered on their porch, and they park their rusty car leaking oil on the street in front of my house with no regard for anything, while hiring a live mariachi band for parties every tuesday at 1am, THEN I see just cause for being slightly miffed.

Otherwise, sit back and relax, have a pint, and watch the leafs game that they are going to lose regardless if your neighbour has their xmas lights on or not. hehe

To each their own with the lights thing...however for the most part it is just laziness (which tends to come from the people Fredd was talking about).

Are lights are off (most of the time) but I haven't taken them down yet.

Too cold...brrr....the few days it's warmed up I haven't had the time. I promise I'll take them down before spring. I guess the lazy tag could partially apply to me on this one.

We've actually turned them on for a few minutes past week just because our little toddler(16 months old) understands where the porch light switch is in the closet and sometimes at night goes crazy pointing to it wanting us to turn the Christmas lights on so he can see them.

Well as Christmas appropriated its date from pagan solstice celebrations, and Chanuka really is a celebration of light as well, they might as well be called holiday lights because they are more universal then Christmas. Damn Christians always appropriating other cultures and renaming them

I'm a fan of house hold decoration that is season appropriate, Harvest/Hallowing decorations for the fall, lights to add colour for the winter, some bright colours/ribbons/baskets for the spring, and nature taking care of making summer look good.

On the flip side of things, the astronomer in me is sick of all the damn light pollution in the night sky, you can't see a thing, and with 2009 being the International Year of Astronomy we are trying to bring awareness to the problem. Some things you can do to reduce night pollution is minimize unnecessary exterior lighting, perhaps replacing always on fixtures with motion sensors and timers. Additionally ensure that all exterior light is directed down, and is not allowed to reflect or diffuse upwards into the night sky.

Finally, since I like to ramble, I have unhooked my lights for the year, but I have one coil of lights hanging from my eves as they are frozen in place ):

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I say for those that still have their lights on,

TURN THEM ON THIS WEEKEND!!

LOL....Is it 5 yet?

i have those multi colour LEDs

They go on for Xmas, valentines day, new years, easter, canada day, civic holiday , halloween etc.

and the occasional drunk saturday.

its alright to be out side the box and be different then your neighbours. Or in this case decorate the outside of your box anyway you see fit at anytime of the year.

Live and let live

This is very offensive to me and is just uncalled for.

I think my porch needs a strobe light haha!

if the strobe light is on..... so is the keg party haha

My neighbours do still have Halloween decorations up, no joke.

Now that is just going to far

Unless it is a black mourning banner?

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Sorry, but it was the only way same of you will get it.

For those who still can’t get it I have question for how to distinguish
X-mas lights from Christmas lights?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
Or where is the difference between their Christmas and Orthodox Christams in the matter of lights?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas
It is seventh of January for many of us. Here in Canada too. And we have full rights to celebrate it with lights in Canada.
If some one dares to tell me to turn my Christmas lights off after 6th of January the only right question would be how to distinguish between tacky people and haters on religion base.

Canada is a multi-culture country, people might come from different countries.

Some people are celebrating Chinese Lunar Year(actually includes not only Chinese, but also South Korean, Japanese etc. ), they will not stop celebrating until Feb 10(and this last day can be varied every year).

No one has yet to answer why lights I put up on my house are called Christmas lights? I don't get how a light bulb has a religion

How do I go about converting my lights to another religion like Hinduism or Islam or Judaism?

Seriously my lights came in a package called Outside House Lights.

What's next, calling any tree I plant outside my home a Christmas tree? or a bush I plant a Christmas bush?