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Do you leave outdoor lights on all night?
Just wondering. We do - I guess it's sort of a habit. When we lived in Indiana we left them on all night because our neighborhood was so dark and we lived in a college town so there were people out seemingly at all hours of the night. AND someone tried to break in to our house when I was IN the house, so we started leaving them on for safety (kind of false security.. but whatever).
Here, our neighborhood is dark at night, even with the streetlight being three doors down. We put up solar lights to light the walkways and we leave our house light on. It seems like some of our neighbors leave lights on all night and others do not.
What do you do? Do you leave the outdoor lights on for a reason?
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Re: Do you leave outdoor lights on all night?
The last person home turns off the outside light. We do not keep it on all night unless by accident.
** One night a year, the anniversary of Jacob Wetterlings Kidnapping we leave it on all night long in rememberance
We live in a townhome community and every unit's exterior light right next to the garage has a light sensor on it and stays on all night. We like this, it provides a very well lit neighborhood and makes it seem very welcoming.
We do not leave any of our other outdoor lights on though.
We turn them off after we let the dogs out for the last time at night. It is a very rare ocassion that we leave them on all night.
This. Also, we put solar lights out in front along the patio. We don't have any street lights in our neighborhood, so I like that this provides a little bit of light. I sometimes let the dog out late at night, and it makes me feel a little bit more comfortable that some lights are on.
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We actually don't have any outside lights, but if we did, we'd turn them off at night. We are lucky to have a cute street lamp in front of our house, so there's always a bit of light out there anyway.
Sometimes when my husband's out of town, or if i'm house sitting for other people, I will leave a light on downstairs or on the front porch. It's completely irrational, but I sometimes have an overactive imagination when I'm sleeping by myself, and so leaving a light on helps me feel safer, even though it's silly.
A couple years back there was a study that showed nighttime crime was actually higher at businesses that left parking lights on all night, as opposed to those that turned them off. Light allows criminals to see too, I guess
Not sure how that translates to a residential setting though.
This is what we do too.
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I agree with you! Our neighbors sometimes leave the light over their garage on in the evening, and it's SO BRIGHT--it floods glaring white light through our backyard and into two different windows of our house. I really hate it--it's like light pollution. Fortunately, they don't leave it on very often, so it's not a big deal...