Quite a few houses near where I live still have their outdoor Christmas lights up - not a big percentage of the total that had them, but plenty enough to make me wonder if this is a thing that people are doing on purpose. I walked around the block last night and about 6 or 7 houses out of 100 or so still have lights strung in the garden or on the house, switched on at night.
Never seen this before, so I am assuming it’s a thing people are doing to try to provide a little cheer in the middle of the pandemic. Have you seen this where you live?
We just moved in to this neighborhood after Christmas, I was happy to see so much decoration up. Most of the Christmas stuff is down now but some is still up.
I was surprised to see so many houses with Valentine’s Day Decorations. I’ve almost never seen any before and I’ve seen dozens here. It can’t all be for this year and some of the stuff clearly has some age to it.
Yes. In 2017 my across-the-street neighbor Jerry put up a huge string of lights on his roof. He shapes them into a different pattern each year. But they stay up year round. In 2020 he attempted to shape them into an obvious virus-like shape. Took a few iterations but he got there.
If by “where you live” you mean on my front porch, then yes. My wife loves Christmas and especially the decorations. All year long, on the 25th of each month, I hear “10 months 'til Christmas!” I’m over it by Jan 1st, ready to tear it all down and get on with things. Luckily, since we pay the Boy Scouts to pick up the tree, that dead thing leaves the house by Jan. 5th. There’s no harm in it, so I indulge her, and winter in Portland is very dark and dreary a lot of the time, so light is welcome.
I have white lights on a tree trunk and a cactus. I put them up right after the lockdown in March, which was thing that a few people did where I live, but never really caught on. I like them, though. They’re pretty and they keep the packrats away from our porch. My plan was to leave them up till this thing was over, but I might just leave them up.
I’ve got a mini tree on top of my bookcase still, it’s not lit and hasn’t been in a long time. I’ve been meaning to rearrange a closet, so I haven’t put it away yet. Maybe one day I’ll actually rearrange that closet!
I still have lights up along the fence – they haven’t been plugged in since Epiphany, but I usually don’t take them down until later in the winter, when it warms up a bit, and the lights aren’t covered with snow and ice.
I can’t recall exactly where I saw it, but there’s a house in my general area that still has giant candy canes hanging along the porch, and there was a stable/manger/creche in another yard that I drove past. I saw both within the last 3 days, but I suppose they could be down by now.
Someone about a half a mile from me, whom I don’t know, still has a bunch of inflatables, lights, all bounded by two-foot candy canes. I haven’t been by there at night to see if they still inflate and light them up.
The Christmas lights on my porch replaced my lantern lights that burn most of the year. They will stay there until the snow melts, at which point I buy a new string of lanterns.
5 miles away is a place I pass on the way home from work. They have about a dozen 10’ spruce type trees still lit up in all their Christmas grandeur. A few other places still have porch and gutter lights on but not many yard decorations anymore.
Everything was gone New Year’s Day, as is my tradition.
However, this year I left the fake pine garland, that drapes in two swags, beneath the porch windows. I took the large red bows off but left the garland as we still have snow and there’s so little green about.
It doesn’t scream Christmas but it’s a teeny bit festive I suppose.
I don’t put lights up outside anymore. But my wife just took the ornaments and lights off the tree this week and I boxed the tree up yesterday and took it back down to the basement.
Oh,yeah. There are holiday decorations around me. Hideous, tacky holiday decorations. But they’ll be gone in about a week after the big holiday (“Spring Festival”/“Chinese New Year”) is past.
I went into the Lindt chocolate store out the outlet mall in Little Rock yesterday and they were still playing Christmas music. No Christmas decorations though. I do have a neighbor who keeps their lights up year round but they only turn it on around Christmas.
We left ours up for that specific reason. Of course, the clearance LED lights I bought were apparently not meant to be left out and used nightly for months, so only about half are still lit.