Ummmm... even tho we're not anywhere near you, that would be me...
In our defense, first of all, my DH takes a long time to get the reindeer properly lighting, and the lights up. More so this year as he went to all LED lighting and spent hours researching those w/out lead and picking out shapes and colors that my DD's could agree on. (!) Then finding and bidding on ebay and waiting for them to arrive. My requests were to try and keep them from getting too garish. Still, we ended up with pink stawberry lights at one level and white lights at another, with a tree wrapped in a strand of lights going about 30 feet up that changed from purple to blue to gold. Was actually less contrasting than it sounds.
Anyway, got them up late...then went on vacation over Christmas/New Year's and into first week of Jan.
Dad likes to see DD's happy and enjoying his work. So we kept them around and continue to turn them on at night. Then week-long storm w/power-outages, ice storm, trees down, etc. Much to clean up. Lights did come down from big tree, but others still there along w/reindeer. Sometimes they get turned on, especially if DD's will be coming home to a dark house. Other times they are not. They are a separate switch from garage lights, so it is a choice if they are on or not..
Reindeer really should fly back to the North Pole, just have to do so when children not around and Dad is not working. (Requires some putting away that I guess I don't do "right") House lights will stay year round but not be turned on anymore until next season.
That's just our reasoning...don't know about anyone else
