Comments on: Christmas Lights – best before 2011

By: augusto

augusto — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:29:03 +0000

Living here, far south of the Canadian tundra, where -50C and 5 meters of snow are not a factor, I generally take mine down immediately following Three Kings Day, Epiphany, the 12th Day of Christmas or just plain January 6th as it is known to the heathens.

By: Giggle Pixie

Giggle Pixie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:57:40 +0000

Hell, maybe we shouldn’t even bother putting them up in the first place – then we don’t need to worry about when to take them down! lol

By: mjenks

mjenks — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:32:19 +0000

I haven’t taken mine down yet, but I also have been stuck with a child recovering from pneumonia and it’s been raining a lot down here. Like, every day a lot. So, I haven’t gotten to it yet. This weekend, though, for sure.

By: Red

Red — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:41:19 +0000

Dude! I live in So Cal. It’s warm enough to go out and take those things down. It would be fine if it was just lights…leave those mothers up until Jesus comes back for all I care…but my neighbors have crazy ass decorations of, like, Tigger dressed as Santa going down a blow up chimney! I don’t need to see that!

By: Dog Breath

Dog Breath — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:25:27 +0000

But if you don’t take them down the lights from the previous years will pile up eventually burning your house down.

I suppose you could start a new cycle of fresh lights each time your house burned down (approximately every 12 years).

After the first seven years you wouldn’t need a heater inside and you wouldn’t ever have to shovel snow off the roof!

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:38:33 +0000

I put up a couple of those metal reindeer, only to find out that a portion of their lights were bunk. I was gonna pull them down, then I thought, “Hey, why not position them so one is humping the other.” Then I thought, “That crazy bitch bible thumper up the road would probably not be thrilled, plus I’m a lazy fat slob, so I’ll just leave the fuckers there til it warms up.”

By: God

God — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:41:03 +0000

Even po people have more ambition than people like us, eh?

By: Sassy Britches

Sassy Britches — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:12:53 +0000

I’m with you, Poobomber. I live in a neighborhood right across the street from low-income housing (horrific stereotype unbefitting a diversity advocate coming up)…and THEY even have their lights down…but not me!