Lights or Not?

[AmericanStand]

Do you Light your place up Like a national monument or hide in the dark?
Id like your thoughts on why.

[Fourthistles]

I like it dark. Research shows better sleep patterns and a reduced risk for some types of cancer (!) if you sleep in very dark conditions. I also like to be able to see the stars from my deck!

[arabian knight]

Pitch Black. If I want to p out in the backyard I can. Or like I heard on Buying Alaska off the back deck. LOL

[rambler]

Dark. I know where stuff is.

I don't need to light it up for the crooks.

Paul

[AmericanStand]

LOL I see scattered stuff and dogs make it hard on the burglars at night !

[TripleD]

The only light on at night is the clock on the microvave.

[handymama]

Lights only if I'm going outside. Stepped on a copperhead and I ain't chancing it again!

[Janis R]

No lights, black out drapes.
Only put light on if we have to go out at night, we have a 2 million power flashlight if we have to go out to the animals at night
No sense beckoning robbers to your house
Inside as dark as possible, better for sleeping. We have all of our electronics on a strip that can be turned off at night. We have flashlights at bedside so we don't have to turn on lights and disturb each other

[opportunity]

We light it up keeps the kids from coming and stealing. We have been lucky most of the people around us have lost a lot of stuff we have a nice dog and lights.

[||Downhome||]

pressurized lanterns and flashlights for outside if need be, other wise no lights on outside and only what we need or are using inside.

I always have a flashlight handy.

[Esterot]

I say both! Infrared spotlights and night vision goggles! Pitch black to them, daylight to me!

"And don't spend your time lookin' around
For something you want that can't be found"
-Papa Bear

[TnAndy]

Originally Posted by rambler

Dark. I know where stuff is.

I don't need to light it up for the crooks.

Paul

Exactly. "Security" lights make a place less secure, IMHO.

[moonwolf]

Have auto lights come on near side doors to see when
coming home at night from work. Big dog inside and
Terrier are my alarms. Otherwise, lighting is minimal. No
need wasting electricity. It's expensive out here.
For going outside at night I've found the best thing is a
LED headband light. Mine has several settings for distance
to see what your eye sees ahead. Even good enough to
aim and shoot varmints if necessary. Lower blue light
setting is enough to walk a trail get back home no matter
how dark.

[Forcast]

dark, only outside light to let the dog in or out then off, maybe leave the porch light on if I am expecting someone coming home after dark, but not on all night, sure a flash light if I forget to close the chickens up at dust.

[1shotwade]

When I moved in here I had 6 neighbors that I could see their lights at night. One was close enough that their light gave me enough to see anything moving outside. I live in a woods so it was broken light.For the first 5-6 years my dogs alarmed every night till about midnight so I was considering an outside light. One night about 10 o'clock the dogs were going off and I had a .22 sitting near the door to take squirrel hunting the next morning.I grabbed it and slipped onto the back deck and fired one round into the air.My dogs never alarmed again after doing so for years.
It took a while but I finally figured out that all this time the problem was my neighbors three kids out messing around every night keeping my dogs stirred up.Some years later i was talking to one of them and was told"A shotgun wouldn't have scarred us any but when you broke out a rifle we realized we could get killed pestering y'all like that!"

Since that time,20 years now,all of my neighbors have gotten rid of their security lights now when I step outside at night the only light I can see is one left on in one neighbors living room 500 yards down the road.

Wade

[hippygirl]

Right now, we do have a yard light, but, as I've discovered just how much I love stargazing here lately, I intend to have it taken down soon.

My mother (who lives on the other side of the tree line from us and whose yard is lit up like a stadium!) had a hissy fit when we first moved out here about us having no yard light, so, to basically shut her up, we had the power company install a light.

[TRellis]

Pitch Black!!!

Night vision devices work best for me in pitch black conditions, especially since most everyone else will be fumbling in the dark.


TRellis

[homesteader824]

No security light on all night. They cost money and I like to enjoy the night sky. As one poster said, it just makes it easier for someone unfamiliar with my place to get around. I carry a small pocket flashlight all the time, so I can get around at night. And I have one of those battery-powered spotlights with a bazillion candlepower if I hear something and really need to light it up.

[rambler]

Originally Posted by hippygirl

Right now, we do have a yard light, but, as I've discovered just how much I love stargazing here lately, I intend to have it taken down soon.

My mother (who lives on the other side of the tree line from us and whose yard is lit up like a stadium!) had a hissy fit when we first moved out here about us having no yard light, so, to basically shut her up, we had the power company install a light.

It's typically not hard at all to put a switch on one, so the light is there when you want, off most of the time. Basically $10 worth of switch, if that, and a little bit of wiring knowledge.

I have 2 yard lights, but was real clear I wanted them switched. Use the all the time, but an hour or so is all.

You likely got a 'good deal' on it from the power company, in exchange for them selling you the power to light it all night? The ethics of having someone put a switch on it is up to you is all I will say. The mechanics of it is likely pretty simple.

Paul

[FarmboyBill]

Ive had a yard light since ive been here. Used to it now.Wifie insisted on it, and in wintertime when the days were short, and I got home from work near dark, it helped with chores. Now, I can do chores anytime I want and don't need it, but its there, so.