Are you leaving fairy lights up?

Funny you should ask! I’ve just been wondering whether to leave up the string of fairy lights I put across the mantelpiece - I will now!

We’ve had them round the edge of our garage for years now. Cheered us up during Covid, can’t bear to take them down. I also have some entwined round a candelabra in our family room.

Yes, but actually by default. Like any other year, when all the decorations are safely packed into their boxes and stored in the loft, one rogue set it discovered twinkling away… forgotten. As per usual it is left there ‘until the next time we have to go up to the loft’, and only taken up when we start thinking about garden furniture,

I have this beautiful, battery run lamp my eldest bought for my birthday
which is just before Christmas. It casts a pretty glow and I love it.

Two or three Christmases ago I put warm white fairy lights in a huge house plant, more of a mini tree really, and left them when all the other decorations came down on 6th Jan, telling myself I’d leave them until the clocks changed in March.

I never did take them down. They’re still going strong.

Yes, lots of white lights in the garden, some in trees.

No, coloured Santa lights - they'll be down soon.

Yes, I’ve got some fairy lights that stay up all year. They really come into their own on dark, grey, dismal days (of which we seem to have many, all year round).

I have some in the living room dining room and conservatory all year around as they are so pretty.

Will leave my candle bridge up until Candlemas. 2nd February I think? 40 days after Christmas.
(Thanks to grandMattie a couple of years ago).

I've always left the decorations up until (almost) the last minute! I love to see twinkling fairy lights, it's like the suspension of reality amid the bleak mid winter. My mother always took them down on 6th January although I know this is highly disputed. She was Roman Catholic and other Catholic friends and relatives say 6th Jan is Twelfth Night so I stick with that.

Here are mine.

For a few years now I have had some artificial twigs with lights on them in a large vase in the corner of our tiny living room.
Over Christmas, they are replaced by our small Christmas tree, but when that is taken down, they will be back in place and
the lights cheerfully twinkling away in that corner again until next Christmas.

Oh I love a fairy light & have them up on a kitchen shelf & festooned over some artwork in my lounge ,where they’ve been since last Christmas 🤶 xx
Twinkle Twinkle

I have a string of lights which act as like a guide wire for a climbing plant. The lights are there all the time but only on at Christmas, birthdays or other celebrations- or if I feel like a bit of cheering up!

Just taken all of the christmas decorations down and they are packed away in the loft. Hoovered and dusted and feel better already. An afternoon of knitting looms!

I take down the decorations and tinsel in my hall, but I leave the fairy lights down the stairs and in the vase on the table as I have a rather dark hall. Everything else goes back into the boxes for next year.

I love fairy lights and am pleased that they seem to be an all year round thing now.

I have them around plants - the tiny seed lights in warm white. They look lovely.

I also have lots of solar fairy lights in the garden. They are there all year round but don't light up much during the darker days. Also, they don't seem to last very long either. I usually end up replacing them every year.

I have some permanently in the kitchen, turn them on as and when I feel the need but am tempted to use some elsewhere in or around a pot plant as others suggest, at least till Spring. I also have some of the LED candles, bought for safety of grandchildren but use normal candles quite a lot to in the winter months when it is just us two. I find January/February a bit depressing and find lighting and using the candles gives me a little lift when it is dark and dreary.

Fairy lights twinkling amongst fir cones in the wood burner during the Summer months.

We don’t take a single decoration down till Twelfth Night, but yes, after that there’ll be a few lights left up. January in particular needs all the help it can get!

I always leave one set of lights up all year, along the mantlepiece. They look so pretty and cheer up the room.

We only ever use candles for lighting after 8pm. No lamps at all, but the thought of using fairy lights does appeal!

Until 12th Night.

We have had a long string of lights up since last year and I love them.

I have fairy lights up all year, in the kitchen, hallway, living room and dining room, also small lights in some decanters and jars dotted around,
The Christmas lights will be put away tomorrow.