Bang!Zoom! Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Does that go on in your house too? Tonight I had to laugh though. Put up a tree. They'd bought extra lights to string on it. I'm just waiting for it: "Hey, you looking at that tree?" "Nope." "Then turn it off." LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Ours gets plugged in in the am and stays on until bed. Unless we go somewhere. Then we turn it off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I go around the house turning off lights all.day.long. The tree is decorative, though, so it can stay lit, though one of the boys unplugged it earlier. Now, if they would all learn to work a switch in the down direction. Which, now that I think of it, is also a problem that affects toilet operation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I honestly never say it, because my dad annoyed me so much with it growing up, lol! I just turn lights off without commentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 You know, you just reminded me that we had motion detectors installed in the kid's bathroom, bedrooms, utility room and mud room in our house in CO. It was a great investment, not only to save electricity but to save my sanity as well. I really need to get dh to do that in this house too! Oh, and I agree that the tree is decorative so gets to stay lit 24\7. It feels weird to turn it off until Christmas is over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Oh yes, I nag! If you don't turn the lights off in winter, they don't turn back on again in the evening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Oh yes, I nag! If you don't turn the lights off in winter, they don't turn back on again in the evening! I have a feeling this shouldn't be confusing to me...but it is. Correlation between winter and evening please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 At my house, my 5yo is the Light Monitor. It's his job to turn off any unused lights...and he takes his job seriously! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabrizia Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Erm I have to admit that as a child my Dad turning off the lights, sometimes even when we were in the room using them because he didn't see us, annoyed me so much that now I leave lights on in my house. Yes we could save a bit on our electricity bill by turning off lights when we leave various rooms, but I just can't find it in my heart to care. I like lights on, even if I am not in the room. I like being able to go into a room and not having to grope for a light switch so I can see. I am an evil energy wasting person who just leaves the dang lights on! I've actually had to inform my Dad when visiting us that the bathroom lights must stay on because DD is too short to turn them on herself, and I refuse to get up whenever she needs to go potty to turn them on for her (they are in an akward place as a stepstool won't work). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 I have a feeling this shouldn't be confusing to me...but it is. Correlation between winter and evening please? Correlation between winter and the amount of sunlight hitting our solar panels. :) If the kids leave the lights on in winter, they'll run down the batteries and I'll have to stumble out the back to put the generator on, if I have any petrol. If I don't, we sit around in the dark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 All of my children are light turner-offers. From when they were little, they were given torches (Flashlights). it is way more fun walking around the house with a torch than turning lights on, they got into the habit from a very young age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Correlation between winter and the amount of sunlight hitting our solar panels. :) If the kids leave the lights on in winter, they'll run down the batteries and I'll have to stumble out the back to put the generator on, if I have any petrol. If I don't, we sit around in the dark. Ah, yes. We have that same conversation at my dad's house. Fortunately, he has wall mounted LP lights from back in the days when he had a single, not so efficient panel, but it's still a bugger to have to go outside in the dark and start the generator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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