Feel free to say I am being unreasonable

Ilovecheese

I don't know, it is not as if there is a shortage of electricity, it is just more expensive. So if someone turns on their fairy lights it is not taking electricity away from anyone else.
I don't see there is a connection between paying for electricity and giving to charity.

I thought we were being warned that there could be a shortage of electricity this coming winter, hence the talk of possible power cuts, no?

i mean i change channels at ad breaks, of course.
OP, i don't think you are being unreasonable, it just doesn't bother me at all, it hardly reaches my consciousness.

doesn't bother me at all.
i ruen over tv when adverts come on, then get interested in something else, then change again at next break, so i watch bits of different things.
so i just expect to totally ignore most advertising.
so it doesn't bother me.

I won't be putting the lights up this Christmas in fact it will be probably be a quiet one as well.
In fact I could really do with out it this year.

I think most of the Christmas lights decorating the outside of houses in excessive and garish quantities are a crime against humanity, anyway.

So who am I to say YANBU or YABU...

(I have one tasteful little string of white ones in a bush..)

All the bulbs in these lights are LEDs. The amount of electricity they use is very little indeed, that is why you can now buy so many strings of lights that just run off ordinary small batteries.

If your lights are left on for 6 hours a day, then 0.08kW x 6 hours will mean a 0.48kW output. As energy prices rise to around 17p per kW, keeping your lights on for 6 hours a day for a whole month costs just £2.48.
www.idealhome.co.uk/christmas-ideas/do-christmas-tree-lights-use-lots-of-electricity-295593

Even with the price increased for the increase in the price of electricity, it really isn't much. And while I fully understand that for users of Food Banks the cost of something like this is beyond their means. It needs to be remembered that 60% of the population live in households with an income of over £30,000, 40% in excess of £40,000, and 20% in excess of £60,000 www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/financialyearending2021,

so for many houeholds, spending £10 of their Christmas budget on fairy lights is not excessive.

I know someone who lives in a south London street that's famous for its Xmas lights display - people come from far and wide to view and money is raised for charity.

I like to see a few lights here and there and I know young children love to see houses and trees lit up at night.

A bit of good cheer never goes amiss!

Grandetante I have always given 15-20% of my salary to charities they include the local foodbank and the Soup kitchen in Glasgow .It doesn't have to be one or the other .

I use battery lights during the winter and solar when/if theres some sun.Iwill certainly be putting up christmas lights .Last year christmas was abandoned as my lovely MIL died just before it and and the 4 friends within days of her
This year we'll all try to make it as happy as we can for the kids and nothing says christmas more than lots of lights .

My solar-powered garden lights will soon stop working. I’m keen to learn of those which work in December.

Ugh..its only September..

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Oh dear! I love Christmas lights.
The neighbours display of outdoor lights are well known in the area, and people donate towards charity already.
I hope we can still go ahead and enjoy the lights this year?

Solar lights only allowed here as I had the same thoughts as you. No electricity or used batteries involved.

I don't know, it is not as if there is a shortage of electricity, it is just more expensive. So if someone turns on their fairy lights it is not taking electricity away from anyone else.
I don't see there is a connection between paying for electricity and giving to charity.

YANBU. it's an unnecessary purchase. I'll be under my heated blanket instead.