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Why are people putting up xmas lights again? I’m asking if you know about a movement or other reason for it, not if you like lights.

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March 11, 2022, 10:52 PM
Rey HRH
Why are people putting up xmas lights again? I’m asking if you know about a movement or other reason for it, not if you like lights.
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Originally posted by architect:
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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I'm not sure about the Christmas lights still being on.

But when I read the title, it reminded me of when in the middle of summer, a young girl (maybe high school at the most) dressed in soccer uniform rand our doorbell. I was cautious when I saw her.

She explained her car stalled at the intersection near our house. I helped her move the car to the curb. We let her come into the house to call her dad and my wife gave her a towel to dry off while waiting for her dad.

Since our house was farther away than other houses, we asked if she went to other doors and no one answered. She said no and that she went for our house. We asked what was her reason for picking our house and she said she saw the christmas lights hanging from the eaves and she thought that indicated we were good people.

We said she was right in coming to us but the christmas lights hanging outside in the middle of summer was an indication we were too lazy to take them down.
So you're saying it's bait?!?!?! Funny, the van with "free candy" painted on the side has always worked pretty well for me. Have to look into that Christmas light thing.


It was during a period when home invasions were trending. I cracked the door open and the sight of this young pretty girl in a soccer uniform made me do a quick scan to catch any males making a run at my door as it certainly looked like a bait for a home invasion.

When I opened the door to the dad, he was also tense and ready to war until he saw the inside of our home and saw it was clean and well-kept. He was more relaxed until I took him to the family room where his daughter was.


"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.