IT'S BLOODY WELL NOT FUCKING DECEMBER.

Good lord. I was driving home tonight and some weirdo has CHRISTMAS LIGHTS on the bigass pine tree outside their house. No, they're not Halloween lights. They're brightly twinkling multicolored CHRISTMAS LIGHTS.

What the actual FUCK is going on?!

Did I miss something?!

IS IT ALL OF A SUDDEN DECEMBER AND WE'VE SKIPPED HALLOWEEN AND THANKSGIVING WHAT. THE. FUCK.

Dying over here.

I keep Christmas lights up on my house and chicken coop/runs so that I can see in the crushing, ever-present darkness of the Alaskan winter.

Maybe they're just trying to illuminate an area of their yard? IDK. Trying to give the benefit of the doubt here.

That's how my house is lol - blush. I seriously love Christmas and would have decorations up all year long (*inside the house too) IF my spouse would let me - but they won't...cause they are the grinch ;) (& not Christian so it means literally nothing to them)

Hmmm...maybe they are like me? I have massive food allergies (60+ foods) so holidays that revolve around candy and eating I can't really get behind. Christmas is the holiday I look forward to once fall hits

Also my spouse is Lakota so.... Yeah we're not celebrating thanksgiving in this house (I don't know any indingenous people who do)

But I could totally understand how putting up Christmas lights early could annoy people

Not to derail this at all, but I'm not Christian and neither is half of my family, and we still celebrate Christmas. And my ex-husband, an Alaska native, and his whole family celebrated Thanksgiving. Maybe Alaskans are weird?

Oh I didn't mean that I'm surprised Non Christians celebrate Christmas :) I actually have a lot of Hindu and Atheist friends that celebrate the secular part of it.

I am surprised that you know indingenous people who celebrate Thanksgiving.

Most people I know feel like their helping the whites/settlers is nothing to celebrate lol...but again the people I know are mostly Lakota and Dakota and they are currently knee deep in garbage with the pipeline right now...could be my group is the odd one out & not yours ;)

Thanks for letting me know though. I always like learning how others live and celebrate :) it's fascinating!

I don't know any Alaska natives who don't celebrate it, truthfully! I think it's more of a harvest/any excuse for a party/spend time with family thing than a "yay, we fed settlers who stole our land and gave us smallpox" kind of thing!

I don't love Christmas like you do, but I don't care about Halloween. YOU GAVE ME A PLACE TO RANT AND I'M GONNA DO IT

My country didn't start celebrating Halloween for real until like 5 - 6 years ago because of globalisation. I had one incident of trick or treaters one year and it was so weird to me??? And then the parent got fussy because I didn't have any candy for the kids??? like stop, no one celebrates this garbage gosh

Not to mention a lot of my best friends are really nuts for Halloween and force feed our group chat with Halloween aesthetics which just plain old fills me with spite. excuse me, i just don't get excited about spooky plastic garbage.

one of my mom's neighbours had christmas light all over their balcony back in july lmao....... (this was in switzerland for the record)

tbh i'd find it really annoying if my neighbours kept bright lights out long before/after christmas :v maybe it's also just bc i'm italian and you don't see christmas lights out past new year's there haha

where are you from, if you don't mind me asking? o: i grew up on a lot of american media and was really excited for halloween when i was a kid but my parents wouldn't let me go trick or treating which in retrospect makes a lot of sense because let's be real here not many people in italy knew what trick or treating was 15 years ago lol

I don't celebrate because of my beliefs, but I find it hard to tolerate the levels of fanaticism... I prefer to hold fast to older values of having family, health and wellness. And I don't need a particular day of the year to emphasize that.

Really the only thing I'd want is snow...snow in the desert.

Oh man, THIS.

I was at Target a week or so ago and along a wall behind the aisles of Halloween stuff WAS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS. IN SEPTEMBER. I am still so mad at the commercialism of the holidays creeping up earlier and earlier every year. ugh

Haha, I'd have Christmas lights up rn if I actually owned a place. I love Christmas and listen to Christmas music, look at pics, etc. all year round. I'm not Christian but I love the coziness and aesthetics of Christmas, even those "ugly" sweaters. I'm just really into kitsch I guess lol

Halloween is okay too but I'm really not into gore. It bothers the heck out of me. I like the "cute spooky" stuff though, like cute bats, witches and skeletons. Most decorations and stuff I've seen are just really gorey though. :( I liked Halloween more as a kid when gore didn't bother me so much.

There's people in my city who keep Christmas lights up all year round because it's probably easier for them than taking them all down and putting them up again. Lots of older folks in my city. So maybe it's someone who just keeps them up all year because it's easier? And Christmas lights are pretty. ❤

God dammit it's too fucking early for that.

I work retail. It's like Christmas threw up in there, as well as the random Halloween/fall decorations. BUT. Not even half of the fucking Christmas bullshit is even set. AND WE'RE A MONTH BEHIND IN SETTING IT.

Like. Can I throw it all in the dumpster now, PLEASE???

Their house is on a main street. Next to a streetlight. So no, lol.

But I don't have any issue with your lights. Your lights have a bloody purpose!!

I totally understand older folks having trouble putting them up and just keeping them up year around, hell it's easier for anyone, but do they have to turn the damn things on?!

Okay, so illumination obviously isn't an issue. I'm an hour from town and from the closest streetlight, and have livestock, soooo... I'm totes in the clear. I do leave my lights up year-round, but I don't turn them on until I need them to see (so, October-ish).

As for your neighbors... are they colored lights, or plain white? Plain white is less holiday-specific, imo!

I agree with the plain white. These are totally a twinkling multicolored masterpiece though.

I guess they just like them. If I could I would have Christmas lights on year round though lol So I'll probably be that neighbour people despise someday.

OMG I am out of "benefit of the doubt" stuff for them. I guess they just love ... twinkling, multicolored lights. xD

some of my neighbors have their lights up already too like no get your christmas nonsense out of here it's SPOOKY MONTH

There's a radio station here that starts playing xmas music Nov 1st. I thought that was a bit much, but I guess I was wrong..

I'm here too! :) waves I'm guessing it's because Alaskan natives have a very different relationship with the government than in the lower 48? I don't know my history too well, but I think AK used to be settled by Russia and were treated horribly until the Americans took over. It seems like everyone just coexists here a lot better.

I'm on board with christmas lights year round. Multicolor, white, maybe not a single bright color or flashing obnoxiously. I'm starting to look forward to the music too.