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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Counterpoint, and mentioned by Speede5 a few posts ago. Northern (ie Canadian) winters are pretty bleak and it's dark for many hours. Lights can make a dark and bleak winter night a little nicer. I have no problem with anyone who wants to leave them on through January and even February if they want. I mean people put up Halloween lights in early October now so why not leave up lights well into the New Year. January and February are a long slog of dreariness to get through, some color in the darkness certainly helps.
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I agree with that, and I like the lights. But there should be some kind of deadline, and even so it should be within reason. My wife and I used to bet on a guy down the block who had a full display on his lawn with Santa and reindeer and all that, and he left them out there until April. Same sort of thing for lights. If it's a steep/high roof and very difficult to get them up and down then I think it's fine. If its the icicle lights and you let the wind help bring them down for you during our summer thunderstorms then I just think its an eyesore.