Lighting for holidays other than Christmas?

[Pink Jazz]

Lately, we have been a little creative with holiday lighting by putting up colored bulbs for holidays other than Christmas. We currently have orange and black CFL bulbs up for Halloween, and after Halloween we plan to swap them out for red and green bulbs for Christmas (Yes, I know about Thanksgiving, but there are no brown light bulbs). After New Years we plan to keep the red bulbs up but will swap out the green bulbs for pink ones. Not sure if we will do all green for St. Patrick's Day, however.

I wonder, does anyone here install lighting for holidays other than Christmas?

 

[WelshBloke]

We currently have orange and black CFL bulbs up for Halloween,

It's September.

 

[Pink Jazz]

It's September.

Halloween is less than a month and half away, and stores are already stocked full of Halloween candy and costumes. Some stores even started stocking Halloween merchandise as early as July this year.

 

[WelshBloke]

Halloween is less than a month and half away

Yes exactly. Halloween is more than a month away.

 

[Pink Jazz]

Yes exactly. Halloween is more than a month away.

And since when there is a "1 month" rule for holiday lighting? Lots of people put up Christmas lights the day after Halloween and leave them up all winter. We plan to swap out our Halloween light bulbs for Christmas ones the weekend after Halloween and will leave them up until around the first Saturday of January where we swap out the green bulbs for pink ones.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There are RGB addressable LED strips that are very intriguing, they use an open standard that can be controlled with pretty much anything that can bit bang, like Arduino or just using a MCU directly. I have not played with them myself but it's crossed my mind to permanently mount them on the house and use as year round lighting. Could be neat to have different programs for different holidays.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/306

There may be cheaper places or other variations too.

Personally I'd like some regular Christmas lights but that use these modules, would be great for leaving in big trees permanently. You could have it be any color you want.

 

[FeuerFrei]

This guy's threads appear to be a belabored bid at personal branding (every time he mentions pink) not necessarily a solicitation of discussion.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I always light up the house for Valentine's Day. Pink, of course. Doesn't everyone?

 

[Pink Jazz]

Sorry to bump, but I would like to revisit this subject, since we have actually done some lighting for different holidays the past year. Last year, for Thanksgiving, we did red and orange bulbs, however, this year, we decided to incorporate yellow into the mix, and will keep this combination until November 24 when we will swap it for the red-green Christmas combination. As planned, earlier this year we also did the red-pink Valentine's Day combination (and will do it again after New Years next year), as well as green for St. Patrick's Day (this we might skip next year since Easter will fall on an early date), yellow and pink for Easter, and red, white, and blue for the Fourth of July.

 

[lxskllr]

I bought some battery powered orange leds from aldi. They were on clearance for $1.50. I love amber lighting. Hopefully they're closer to amber than bright orange. Haven't tried them yet, but they'll be my 'because I feel like it' decorations. That's an arbitrary season that can start and end at any time. Sometimes it lasts months, and sometimes only a day. Hard to tell.