I love the Winter lights idea. People should do this! Just take them down in March or something. I just don't understand how some people go to the trouble of putting up lights, & then take them all down on Christmas Day. Leave them until New Year's, at least! Do they really run out of festive spirit that quickly?

Hope you're enjoying the tart & festive music. I'm kind of doing the same thing - Mexican cocoa candle, mug of coffee, pondering taking a bath. (Leftover vacation days that have to be used up by the end of the month - excellent!)

I love the Winter lights idea. People should do this! Just take them down in March or something. I just don't understand how some people go to the trouble of putting up lights, & then take them all down on Christmas Day. Leave them until New Year's, at least! Do they really run out of festive spirit that quickly?

 

Hope you're enjoying the tart & festive music. I'm kind of doing the same thing - Mexican cocoa candle, mug of coffee, pondering taking a bath. (Leftover vacation days that have to be used up by the end of the month - excellent!)

I'm glad I'm not the only one in favor of winter lights! I remember when I was little my dad used to grumble about the neighbors leaving their lights up after Christmas. I never understood why that was a problem -- there's nothing else pretty to look at in winter, so why not have lights up? I'm not talking Clark Griswold lights here, just some nice festive lights on the shrubs or something.

I'm burning a tart that smells like cake and I'm listening to Weird Al. It's the best I can do under the circumstances.

Seconding the winter lights! As a matter of fact, I have decided to leave my "winter tree" up until Spring!

Jumping on the winter lights bandwagon! Where I live, it never seems to snow in December and then dumps a buttload in January and February, and the lights are always the prettiest with snow on the ground.

I always have lights on my front porch, even in the summer. I found some really cute little lights that have little mason jar-style covers on it.

Actually, a few years ago, my yoga teacher hung a string of clear lights in her studio at Christmas and she hasn't taken them down since, except when she's replacing one string with another. It gives the entire space a nice feel.

Seconding the winter lights! As a matter of fact, I have decided to leave my "winter tree" up until Spring!

I dated a guy in high school whose family left their tree up all year long and decorated it depending on the season. I liked that!

Jumping on the winter lights bandwagon! Where I live, it never seems to snow in December and then dumps a buttload in January and February, and the lights are always the prettiest with snow on the ground.

That's the way it snows here too -- we hardly ever have snow in December, so when people have their lights up it's mainly just brown and muddy. Ugh. Lights look so pretty with snow!

I'm thinking maybe next year after Christmas I'll exchange the colorful lights for white lights, so the neighbors realize I'm doing it on purpose. If I didn't live in the most conservative neighborhood ever I doubt it would be a problem, but we're already known as the weirdos on our street so I don't want the neighbors breathing down my neck about something else that is - ACK! - not in complete agreement with the tacit rules of suburban yards. My neighbors would really like for our street to be the epitome of classic good taste. (They're probably all hoping that Brett and I will move out soon so they have a chance at achieving that goal. We're the scourge of the neighborhood.)

Yeah, we had the first snow of the winter a few days ago, and it was a pathetic and quickly-melting 1 1/2 inches. Things were lovely all covered for less than 24 hours. Now everything is dark and drab again.

I never thought leaving the lights up was tacky. Unless, you know, you also left up a big candy cane or inflatable Santa past January.

Some people (and restaurants I find do this a lot) leave up white lights or red or blue lights almost all year long. I like it. It's magical.

Probably not so good for saving energy though.