Mine are! And lit! I want to keep the Christmas spirit alive! (till St. Patrick’s Day).
Anyone else got thier yule decorations stillup and on? 
My menorah’s been away for months! 
Zev Steinhardt
fizzy’s mother had a snowman who said stuff when you turned off the lights.
Only took him down, so to speak, a week or two ago, if that.
He’d been up since like Thanksgiving. We were ready to shoot the blasted thing with a sawed-off shotgun.
The guy that lives behind me still has his cross with lights up and they haven’t been turned off. I asked him if he was starting a church and I don’t think he knew what I was talking about.
To me, it implies laziness. You didn’t say if you were in a house or just had some lites strung around your apartment window. I’m gonna opine assuming it’s the former.
No matter how much you want to keep the spirit alive, or now matter how Irish you keeping them up 'til 3/17, my take is it’s really not much different than asking:
Chocoholics & Candy Corn Addicts: Can I leave my Halloween decorations up until the next candy holiday; Easter?
It’s your place and you can paint it hot pink with lime green trim you wish. All I’m saying is certain (picky & judgemental) people (like myself) will jump to conclude you were too lazy to take 'em down (on Little Xmas). But YMMV - if you don’t care what other people are going to assume, leave 'em be.
The best example I can give: My best friend’s comatose wife is in the critical care unit @ a local hospital. A huge, undecorated, artificial Christmas tree is still up atop the overhang to the main entrance. More than 1/2 the people who’ve come to visit have asked him, "why are you allowing them to care for your wife? They can’t be a very well-run or professional institution, their tree’s still up and here it is March!
If your house was on the market today, would you still have the lights up? Your answer may be yes, but I bet the Real Estate agent would probably suggest you reconsider.
It’s definitely not as bad if you replace the bulbs with green, white & orange ones. Nor does it even come close to leaving them stapled to the soffits year round.
J1MO
The people who live across the street from me still have their Christmas angels up.
Of course, they also have a holiday wreath, cut-out cupids holding hearts, a “shadow” man, several fake birds, a plastic hen and several chicks, a few pinwheels and a couple of candy canes.
Looks real 'purty…
Hell, I still have my I Like Ike button on my lapel . .
I live between two houses that still have their lights up. One has had them up for 3 xmases, so they don’t work well enough anymore to turn on. I am now in trailer trash hell.
Don’t people watch TV shows that make fun of these losers???
We stopped lighting them (unplugged the timers) after January 5th. They stayed on the house and in the yard, however, until last weekend. Last weekend the weather was finally nice enough (and had been for long enough) that all the snow and ice had melted away, making everything easy to get to, so I took everything down. Sniff.
Moderators have their own buttons?
Today is March 5th. My artifical christmas tree has been up since a week after Thanksgiving. So have my inside christmas decorations.
Although I have the desire to take the stuff down I don’t think I will for awhile. I’m so exhausted when I come home from work I just have no energy for extra chores. Perhaps if I had visitors who were not family coming to visit I might care what other people would think. Then again, maybe not.
Took mine down last weekend - February 29. I’d unplugged them January 6, but I’m too lazy and cold-averse to got out and take them down. Then it got warm, and suddenly little flaming-snowman-dude, rather than looking festive, just looked sad standing there in the mud. Once he went, then the spiral Christmas tree had to go, and finally the tube-lights. <Sigh>. I guess Christmas is really over.
Back in olden times, when we lived in an apartment, we kept our Christmas lights strung up all year 'round. July 4, we’d light 'em up in lieu of fireworks.
Heck no, they’re not still up. I was very glad to drag that dead old tree out of the living room and chuck it over the balcony. As much fun as it was picking out a tree and decorating, it felt even better to put it all away and get back to normal.
My college roomates and I would leave our lights up all year long. We’d add new lights whenever we found cool novelty lights, japanese lanterns, that sort of thing. It looked quite spiffy whenever we’d turn them on for parties or holidays. Of course we never asked our neighbors what they thought.
The strands of lights are still up in our livingroom (apartment). We simply are too lazy to take them down. We don’t turn them on anymore, though. Well, we did have them on for Valentines Day, since it seems the majority of the lights are red and pink, and it gives a very Valentine-y look to the apartment! The green strands also add a bit of colour to an otherwise REALLY bland and boring beige wall.
Yes, my lights are still up. However, I don’t turn them on. They’re still up because up until a week or two ago, the weather has either been very cold, or storming. The next nice weekend we have, I’ll take 'em down.
We have one string of “christmas” lights strung up the railing to the porch stairs- that stays there year round. They’re not a decoration, they’re an alternative to a 40-75 watt porch light shining in through my bedroom window. People getting home after dark can see the stairs, and since the house can’t be seen from the road no one but our neighbors to the left (who have the same arrangement, incidentally) can see them… it’s all good.
I agree. My tree has been up since Christmas 2002.
My lights are still up outside on the balcony, but they haven’t been lit since January. I’m waiting for warmer weather before venturing out to take them down, since it’s a complicated process involving the untwisting of twisty-ties, and it’s quite impossible to do while wearing mittens. Maybe I’ll just leave them up, but replace all the bulbs with green ones for St Patrick’s day!
Ours are down, but we have a few neighbors with lights still up.
The people across the street and down a few houses moved out in January and left icicle lights across the rain gutters and lights all over the shrubs. Too lazy too pack 'em up, I guess.
I still have a little snowman pin on my coat.
Mine are down. But then, I had a head start since I never put them up…