…how do you take the Christmas lights off the house when the snow is waist deep? Do you just wait until March?
- Colorado Doper who always has everything down by the first week of January.
You take them down when you can . . . or not.
Take them down? Does not compute.
I and my neighbor take them down no later then Feb 1st. We do not turn them on after Jan 5th. just what we do in my neck of the woods. Finger Lakes Upstate NY.
I’m near Buffalo, I took mine down yesterday. For the record it’s in the 40’s and raining today. There is no snow on the ground.
There’s been years when there has been a bunch of snow on the ground and moving the ladder over the bushes would make it tough. I’ve waited until the end of Feb.
what, you don’t leave 'em up till after the Stock Show?
Shame on anyone who takes down Christmas decorations before the Twelve Days of Christmas are over.
I’m with Booker57 on this one. Take them down when convenient just stop turning them on after a reasonable time. For me that is usually Jan 6th. Of course, there are others like one of my neighbors, who leave them up all year long. At least they don’t light them after February.
I usually don’t take mine down until the snow has melted enough to make ladder work safe, and it’s not so cold that I freeze my fingers.
That combination usually arrives in Saskatchewan around late March. 
Moving this one to IMHO.
samclem
Yeah, going with the consensus here. You take them down at a convenient thaw.
The same way you put them up in waist-deep snow, of course!
That said, we don’t usually put Christmas lights up. I put out little lighted wire trees once, but they got buried in snow and I couldn’t get them back until the spring, so I don’t do that any more.
The times we did put up Christmas lights, we just did them over the porch, which we shoveled every day so it wasn’t a problem. My parents put them up every year, but they put them over the porch and the driveway, so snow was never a problem.