And then there's me, who saved time by putting my Christmas lights up in November of last year.
And not taking them down...
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Yeah bro just don’t turn them on. Nobody will know.
People keep talking about crime, but I tend to hold off on even putting up decorations until a week or less before the holiday because where I live the weather will destroy or launch your decorations, and the storms often come at night with no warning.
So my immediate thought was, he wants to preserve those decorations. It's something I would do if I didn't just accept I'd be replacing a third to a half of my decorations every year because I can't be assed to take them down for storms.
My gas station had a giant dinosaur and a store down the street had a giant chair. They just chained them down like a dog on a leash.
I assumed theft prevention, but if he has a nice lawn, he could also be trying to keep it from dying.
He's probably had some stolen once.
I guess this is possible, though we live in a pretty safe, gated community in a low-crime city.
I’ve lived in a few gated communities. Those gates are a joke. The pizza place I once worked had a sheet with bypass codes to like every neighborhood lol
Or you just wait until someone else goes in and follow.
I was a cable guy in Tulsa, OK. Those people are nuts for gates, never been anywhere like it. Yeah, I could get in anywhere.
There was one hood where the security guard chased me, on foot, to my customer's house. :) When I was leaving, I could see through another house's backyard to the Circle-K parking lot. Not even a chain link fence, just walk in.
The only gated community I thought was actually fully secured was my parents place on a small island near port Isabell. The whole island was a single 55+ gated community (before spacex came around anyway”
The guard gate was on the draw bridge.
I think it says something about society when instead of asking the neighbor why he brings his decorations inside every day, we prefer to ask people online who don't know him.
OP's question is not why, though. They want to know how widespread this approach is - a question that could hardly be answered by the neighbor.
Plus, it's a pretty funny post. I have never in life seen or heard of this practice.
I used to live across the street from a guy who had his Xmas lights string up permanently and would screw/unscrew each bulb.
I could almost see enjoying this. Almost.
If you cold, they cold.
The question is "Is this a normal thing for others?" and the answer is "No."
Somebody else mentioned having them stolen, but it might be even more traumatic if he'd had decorations vandalized in the past.
traumatic
Doesn't want them to fade in the sun?
I don't think so. They're usually in the sun for at least the first hour.
Right, but that's late evening sun rather than midday sun for hours.
Other comments bring up vandalism or theft, but it could be a utility thing. Like he doesn't want to pay for all that electricity.
But at that point, why not just get those timers?
You dont need to move an object indoors or to install a timer to turn it off
You don't need to do either if you just fucking unplug them.
They look really depressing deflated. It may be an appearance thing combined with frugality. Its probably not that, but it could be that.
thats what I mean
High crime area?
No. I have had Christmas lights stolen, but those were on the fence by the road, we don't have that in this house.
The inflatable things people just deflate and leave out usually here. Everything else just stays so the house stays decorated.