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01-30-2010, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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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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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. - Marco Rubio
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01-31-2010, 08:12 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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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!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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01-31-2010, 10:43 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Warwick
Posts: 541
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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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01-31-2010, 11:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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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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01-31-2010, 11:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,704
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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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01-31-2010, 02:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Ok, Ok
I'll take mine down,Geeze what Grinches....  |
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01-31-2010, 03:00 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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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?  |
" Choose Life "
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02-19-2010, 09:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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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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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. - Marco Rubio
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02-21-2010, 10:17 PM
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Certified Mass-hole
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jackson, NJ but born and raised in Massachusetts.
Posts: 1,223
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The 12 days of Christmas end on January 6th?????? I think.
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02-22-2010, 06:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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I've got a few neighbors with the lights still up & on.
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LETS GO BRANDON
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02-22-2010, 10:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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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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02-25-2010, 12:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Cambridge, MA
Posts: 1,358
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I guess I should take the wreath on my door down....
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02-25-2010, 02:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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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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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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02-25-2010, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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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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02-25-2010, 07:51 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
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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02-26-2010, 05:28 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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oh Geez
Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
The Watering Hole VI - I'll be over
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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  |
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03-12-2010, 08:15 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Just took this of my neighbor's lighted bush: 12 March.
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 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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03-12-2010, 09:07 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Not good enough PRBuzz. I want to see Fishbones lament for real.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-12-2010, 10:04 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
Posts: 4,143
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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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" Happy as a clam at high tide "
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03-13-2010, 08:21 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,704
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Time to put up the green lights!!!
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03-14-2010, 11:49 AM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
Posts: 693
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Larenos in Brewster has had them up year round for over forty years
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03-23-2012, 06:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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What made you grave digging...Is life that bland???
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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03-23-2012, 07:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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Yes life is that bland. And for the record, the decorations are still inflated and lit as of tonight.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device
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03-24-2012, 08:37 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SOCO
Posts: 1,995
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You should get a bunch of friends and go christmas caroling at their house, maybe they would get the hint!
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03-24-2012, 01:16 PM
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Eels
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Cape Cod,MA.
Posts: 3,333
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RF9,That is my wife's biggest pet peeve as well and I get to hear about it,like I have control over the situation.
It's funny how some still leave them on,some put them up & they look good depending on setting,application on or off season,some look like $hit even in season,but we all have our own threshold/benchmark of taste.I don't know what makes most people tick, whether it's procrastination, laziness,they just don't give a crap what other people think,or a combination of thing's.
But I will say this,some true Americans who hold strong family values will leave there house lit for there loved one's who are over sea's to come home for the holidays,not everyone can share the same time frame as most of us do.
See we have the luxury of laying our head down at night in peace while our warriors are out on the front line for us all.
So what ever the case maybe,one just never knows what other peoples circumstance's are.
Just my .02
Last edited by 5/0; 03-24-2012 at 06:38 PM..
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