Plug pulled on Christmas lights

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 17 Oct 2008, 22:30

Rising energy prices are making some people cut their usage. I seem to remember we were discussing this last Christmas.

A couple who decorated their house for 20 years with more than 50,000 Christmas lights say they can no longer afford it due to electricity prices.

Bernard and Denise Lumsden, of Brislington, Bristol, have transformed their home into a huge light display for charity for two decades.

Last year's electricity bill, which covered six months, was £1,200 - double the previous year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7676317.stm

Bedrock Barney · Post by **Bedrock Barney** » 17 Oct 2008, 22:33

Lots of ebay xmas light bargains coming up methinks.

Bandidoz · Post by **Bandidoz** » 17 Oct 2008, 22:34

Thank f**king God. Those displays are hideous.

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 17 Oct 2008, 22:40

Bandidoz wrote:Thank f**king God. Those displays are hideous.

+1

Ippoippo · Post by **Ippoippo** » 18 Oct 2008, 11:25

Andy Hunt wrote:
Bandidoz wrote:Thank f**king God. Those displays are hideous.
+1

+2

aliwood · Post by **aliwood** » 18 Oct 2008, 18:05

Post by **adam2** » 20 Oct 2008, 08:56

I quite like Christmas lighting displays, though I would consider 50,000 lights to be a bit excessive.

I limit myself to a few hundred, they are all LED lights and the total load is only about 40 watts (renewably generated)

At my mothers home I put up a similar number of all LED lights, the effective power use in this case is zero since the festive lights are used instead of other lighting, not as well.

Adam1 · Post by **Adam1** » 20 Oct 2008, 10:17

Bandidoz wrote:Thank f**king God. Those displays are hideous.

Does this mean that peak oil = peak kitsch?

Andy Hunt · Post by **Andy Hunt** » 20 Oct 2008, 13:43

Adam1 wrote:
Bandidoz wrote:Thank f**king God. Those displays are hideous.
Does this mean that peak oil = peak kitsch?

Every cloud . . .

On the subject of Christmas, I notice that those who work in TV advertising are still including scenes of snow-blanketed landscapes in their adverts.

I wonder, do these people actually live in the UK, here in the early 21st century?

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 20 Oct 2008, 14:20

Andy Hunt wrote: I wonder, do these people actually live in the UK, here in the early 21st century?

No. They live in the 1950s, in a world full women who spend all day cleaning, blokes who don't know where the tea-mugs are kept, and empty roads (remember them?), and they don't get out much.

skeptik · Post by **skeptik** » 20 Oct 2008, 16:46

RenewableCandy wrote:
Andy Hunt wrote: I wonder, do these people actually live in the UK, here in the early 21st century?
No. They live in the 1950s, in a world full women who spend all day cleaning, blokes who don't know where the tea-mugs are kept, and empty roads (remember them?), and they don't get out much.

/entering nostalgia mode/
Just about. And Sunday motoring trips along empty Essex lanes in my parents first car. An ancient grey ( I think all the early ones were) second hand Morris Minor with a vertically split front windscreen, grey leather upholstery - loved the smell - and trafficators...

The engine wasn't so great. On the steepest hills, as discovered on holiday in the Isle of Wight, all except my Dad had to get out and walk.
/exit nostalgia mode/

Blue Peter · Post by **Blue Peter** » 20 Oct 2008, 16:58

Bandidoz wrote:Thank f**king God. Those displays are hideous.

I rather like(d) them

Peter.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 20 Oct 2008, 17:11

aliwood wrote:+3

And so say all of us.