# Are you a lights-on person or a lights-off person?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 1, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-lights-on-person-or-a-lights-off-person/767357 "2016-10-01T13:59:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-lights-on-person-or-a-lights-off-person/767357/41 "2016-10-03T20:17:06Z")

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I love the high temp (i.e. blue white) lights around the house. But in the morning it’s like being in a hospital. Count me in the lights-out crowd.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-lights-on-person-or-a-lights-off-person/767357/42 "2016-10-03T20:45:49Z")

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> [@Lowdown](#):
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> My wife, on the other hand, is an All Lights On All The Time person. She’ll turn on every light in a room if she’s just walking through.

My wife and kids used to be like that until I wore them down with nagging about the electricity bill. They’d leave a light on after leaving a room or coming downstairs and then sit down - offering the excuse that they were going back there in a minute, so it’s best not to turn it off.

I came to realise that they regarded lights the TV, doors, etc in much the same way as heaters - if you turn off the light, it’ll get so dark in that room that when you turn it back on, it won’t get properly light again; If you turn off the TV, it will get to be so _off_ that it’ll never turn back on again; If you close a door, it might get so closed that you’ll never open it again.

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