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hey good for you. i have seen lights up at different peoples houses here already, course, we dont have thanksgiving to interfere with lights and christmas festivities as ours has already happened in october.

You did a great job on the lights. We always put them up the day after Thanksgiving. Mainly because my husband has that day off and has no obligations to attend to and still has Saturday and Sunday to do things if he needs them, so it is the perfect day to do the tree and the lights. Actually the kids and I do the tree and my husband does the lights outside. He does a really nice job. My oldest son is now 12 so I think he might make him come out and do lights with him instead of doing the tree with my daughter, and my other son and I.

Ya know, Grandpa Bob...I really should hire you to come here and put up all our lights. We have 2 HUGE tote fulls of them under the house and all work but just no gumption to drag them out and put them up. I have everything needed to put em up on the house and all the evergreen trees out front. Just no desire to actually do it. hmmmmmmmm...the contractor who fixed our house from last winter's ice storm just started a new thing..hiring themselves out to put up Christmas lights and take them down plus store them in their huge warehouse they just acquired. I'm tempted to hire them. lol

How lovely, GB - you can always be relied upon to put on a great show! I can't believe it seems like yesterday we were looking at last year's lights and your gorgeous family decorations. Time passes so quickly!

The tradition here at my house has always been to start putting up our Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. I don't like to put them up before. I like for each holiday to have its own day, so I won't start on Christmas until after Thanksgiving. I can remember as a kid coming home from my grandparents on Thanksgiving, we would have an hour drive and we first see who would see the first Christmas lights and then after that we would count how many we saw on the way home. No we can do that while out trick or treating. not fun

Hi Grandpa Bob, Your wife must be thinking "What a lovely husband." Your decorations is too good. We don't celebrate Christmas, but I love watching these stars and Christmas tree with lights and other gifts.

I think I mentioned Christmas lights in another responseto you. You always put up a good display. I cant climb up onto our roof to put lights on the gutter, but I can put lights up in the front yard. One can buy some really good ones now. My daughter will help. Some of the homes here that have very big displays, charge, say, 50c to view their display (voluntary) & donate the money to charity.

I don't put up lights, but I've noticed people in the neighborhood starting to put them up this week. Haven't been out after dark though, so don't know if they turn them on yet or not.