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Old 01-30-2010, 11:11 PM   #1
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Christmas Lights

Isn't it time to turn them off? I love the holidays as much as the next guy, but this is freakin' ridiculous! Someone on my street still has them turned on on January 30th. Is ther some rule of thumb for this?

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Old 01-31-2010, 08:12 AM   #2
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Pathetic! I have to stare at my neighbors icicle lights all year long as they can't take a ladder and 10 minutes and take them down!!!! It kind of ticks me off to have to look at them as the mercury hits 95 degrees in August!

Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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Old 01-31-2010, 10:43 AM   #3
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you guys are right on the money with this one. It also takes away from the special time frame of the holidays.
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Old 01-31-2010, 11:26 AM   #4
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Christmas lights should only be up fro the day after Thanksgiving until New Years Day. Both are days that most people have off from work.

Seeing Christmas stuff starting in October through Valentine's Day is maddening.
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Old 01-31-2010, 11:48 AM   #5
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As of lastnight the people at the bottom of the street my dad lives on still have up icicle lights all the way around the house!
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Old 01-31-2010, 02:46 PM   #6
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Ok, Ok

I'll take mine down,Geeze what Grinches....
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Old 01-31-2010, 03:00 PM   #7
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[QUOTE=JohnnyD;743530

Seeing Christmas stuff starting in October through Valentine's Day is maddening.[/QUOTE]

JD, go to Pulaski and fish the Salmon RIver, they keep them up all
year, with annual snow falls of somethin around 300 inches, what
else do they have to do?

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Old 02-19-2010, 09:07 PM   #8
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WTF! The people on my street finally took down their lights last weekend. Tonight, I'm driving through Canton and not only do I pass 3 houses with lights on, the town still has the trees along Washington St. downtown lit up. It's almost Easter!

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Old 02-21-2010, 10:17 PM   #9
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The 12 days of Christmas end on January 6th?????? I think.
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Old 02-22-2010, 06:16 AM   #10
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I've got a few neighbors with the lights still up & on.

LETS GO BRANDON
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Old 02-22-2010, 10:27 AM   #11
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One of my neighbors just took down their lights from christmas.

Now, from about 6pm on, their entire front yard glows green with St. Patty's Day lights.
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Old 02-25-2010, 12:10 AM   #12
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I guess I should take the wreath on my door down....
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Old 02-25-2010, 02:21 PM   #13
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It doesnt bother me all that much... but it bothers my wife to no end...they are one of the few things that will cause her to drop an "F" bomb... VERY RARE...

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Old 02-25-2010, 06:34 PM   #14
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Talking thanks for the idea

i'll put some new ones up.... soon

i'll make them special outdoor black light bulbs

and then paint a huge psychedelic jimmy hendrix poster
on the barn door

that will make my neighbor's real happy.
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Old 02-25-2010, 07:51 PM   #15
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i'll put some new ones up.... soon

i'll make them special outdoor black light bulbs

and then paint a huge psychedelic jimmy hendrix poster
on the barn door

that will make my neighbor's real happy.

The Watering Hole VI - I'll be over
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Old 02-26-2010, 05:28 AM   #16
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The Watering Hole VI - I'll be over
now i'll have to build a freakin BAR - and get some bar stools

i'll have a karaoke juke box with Christmas carols (Bing Crosby)

and those miniature Hawaiian hula dancers in Skimpy Santa suits

note to self...: build coral and buy real reindeer
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Old 02-27-2010, 08:33 AM   #17
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I $H!t you not,the guy at the bottom of my dad's street still has up his lights!
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Old 02-27-2010, 08:54 AM   #18
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I think I'll put mine bach up
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Old 02-27-2010, 10:03 AM   #19
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now i'll have to build a freakin BAR - and get some bar stools

i'll have a karaoke juke box with Christmas carols (Bing Crosby)

and those miniature Hawaiian hula dancers in Skimpy Santa suits

note to self...: build coral and buy real reindeer
Tell me when it's done I'll bring some bottles over
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Old 03-12-2010, 07:02 PM   #20
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Preety soon we won't be able to call then Christmas lights it's Holiday Lights so you can leave them up all year long
enough is enough TAKE THEM DOWN NOW
ps: GHETTO LIGHTS
ML

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Old 03-12-2010, 07:52 PM   #21
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I wanna a pic of the lights on


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Old 03-12-2010, 08:15 PM   #22
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Just took this of my neighbor's lighted bush: 12 March.
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Old 03-12-2010, 09:07 PM   #23
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Not good enough PRBuzz. I want to see Fishbones lament for real.

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Old 03-12-2010, 10:04 PM   #24
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I'm GONNA LIGHT SOMEONE UP
TAKE EM DOWN
I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE
EASTER EGG LIGHTS
I"M GONNA GO LIGHTLISTICK
ML
on the brink of light
no light ,lite, no light , lite
I"M A RETARD on off on off meddddddddddddds

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Old 03-13-2010, 08:21 AM   #25
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Time to put up the green lights!!!
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Old 03-14-2010, 11:49 AM   #26
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Larenos in Brewster has had them up year round for over forty years
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Old 03-14-2010, 11:50 AM   #27
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I'm putting mine back up so I don't forget to put them up around the holidays
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Old 03-22-2010, 01:14 PM   #28
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i want them on my car

so i can park in Link's driveway
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Old 04-04-2010, 02:07 PM   #29
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I took em down yesterday. Going to put em back up next weekend so I remember how they go.....
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Old 03-23-2012, 12:35 PM   #30
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So, I've been noticing that a house on route 28 in Bridgewater still has the inflatable light up holiday decorations in their yard. I drive by every Friday night on the way to my son's soccer game and sometimes during the week if I go over my friends house. I'm heading down that way again tonight. If they're still up, I'm gonna try to get a picture of them. It's freikin 80 degrees outside! I don't get it.

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