Christmas lights and decorations

johncolombo wrote:
I may wait till it starts snowing in the game. They look prettier then.

agreed. the snow makes the lights pop

lights now wouldn't look right

Doesn't snow here in Australia come Xmas time and the Xmas lights look fine. I take offence to that.

emmcee1 wrote:
Doesn't snow here in Australia come Xmas time and the Xmas lights look fine. I take offence to that.

:thumbup:

December 1st, the same day my tree will go up. It will be what I do to relax after hand.
Setting up a tree and decorating is hot, sticky work.

Many of my neighbour's have put up their lights already and they look great! And I have heard that many people keep them up year round because they like the look.

In real life, I find many people put their lights up in mid November. Where I am in Canada, most people feel they should wait until the Santa Claus Parade (which is usually the 2nd weekend in November). The majority of my friends in the US wait until the week of US Thanksgiving or the day of The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (even the ones in over in California and Seattle, Washington). As for overseas, I have never really asked my friends when they prefer to put their lights up!

If you want to put them up in your game then you should! I think I'm going to wait for the snow to appear, though - it will give me something to look forward to! :D

EDIT: Great topic, OP! :D

emmcee1 wrote:
Doesn't snow here in Australia come Xmas time and the Xmas lights look fine. I take offence to that.

Doesn't snow in Florida either but I still think they look better with snow. :)

I don't have any. :( I hope I can get them this year too!

I put mine up the 2nd week of Nov because I just couldn't wait! We aren't allowed to put outsides lights at my condo so I wanted to make my springfield look pretty! No snow needed! I have seen people in Florida put fake snow down on their yards though. I thought it looked festive!

Before reading this thread, I had put them out because yesterday I noticed the local mall is featuring Santa, but now they're back in storage. Maybe Friday, like we do IRL here.

Turning some of the Xmas lights this weekend but not all. Will add lights to a few house each until mid Dec.