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[Luvsun]

Do you leave your porch light on or any other type of outside lights on at night?
Or do you have dusk to dawn lights that automatically come on?
Do you have any street lights close to your home that are on all night?

[rella]

I don't leave lights on......Sometimes, when someone comes in late they forget to turn off the outside and garage lights. We do have motion sensor lights outside on the driveway and entry. There are street lights, but a couple of houses up from us each way.

[wheezie]

We only leave the porch light on if we hear a noise outside or if the dog starts barking. We live smack dab in the middle of the woods, so it can get creepy at night. If I didn't have my big strong manly dh , I'd light this place up like a Christmas tree at night. I'm a big weenie. LOL

[DebiDebiDebi]

We have 6 outside lights on. Our town has a high crime rate so outside lights are key. We also have two dogs and a house alarm system. Sad, but necessary.

[lexiemom]

We only turn the outside lights on when we go are outside at night. Our street has street lights at each corner and they stay on all night.

[luvnwdwgal]

We turn an outside light on if we're going to be getting home late or if we're expecting someone after dark. We're rural, so no street lights.

[JoanneS]

There are no streetlights on our street. We have a motion sensitive light on the side of our house near the driveway. And since our bassett hound was diagnosed with dementia, we've kept our lights on with music playing in the living room and kitchen 24/7.

[Ashli]

We don't leave any lights on, but there is a streetlight right across the street from our house that stays on all night. There is way too much wildlife around our house (deer, racoons, etc) to have a motion detected light. It would be going on and off all night.

[HiddenMickey]

We have landscaping lights that come on at dusk and are on until around 10pm. After that, the only outdoor light is the street light across the street (unless the nieghbors forget to turn off their outside garage lights. I'd actually prefer it if the street lights went off at midnight, as we like a dark rooms for sleeping. And even on the other side of the house it's not dark.

Garage or outside flood lights are only used if we are outside or we are expecting company.

[jenifermg0]

Originally Posted by Luvsun

Do you leave your porch light on or any other type of outside lights on at night?

We have a motion sensor porch light that I try to leave on. It get REALLY dark here in the winter and the days can be really short in the winter (tho the reverse is true in the summer).

Originally Posted by Luvsun

Or do you have dusk to dawn lights that automatically come on?

Nope....would love to have some solar powered landscaping lights....but in the winter, not enough light to power them and in the summer, don't need them.

Originally Posted by Luvsun

Do you have any street lights close to your home that are on all night?

Yep...one across the street and one house down, but it's on the opposite side from our front door so it doesn't help much.

[jenifermg0]

Originally Posted by JoanneS

And since our bassett hound was diagnosed with dementia, we've kept our lights on with music playing in the living room and kitchen 24/7.

Completely off topic here...Had no idea that dogs could develope dementia! I'm so sorry. That has to be difficult.

[Gin7274]

No we don't leave our porch light on, we have a motion sensor on our front porch light and we don't have street lights.

[revral]

I live in a condo, so the only outside light I have control over is the one by my door which I don't leave on. The condo complex has outside lights that are dusk to dawn on the condo buildings & garages that the homeowners association pays the electricity bill that are on at night. As for a street light there isn't one near my building although there is one across the street & down a bit.

[cattailmarsh]

We generally leave our outside porch light on thru the night bc our porch is very dark without it. Our other outdoor lights are turned off or are the automatic lights. We do leave a hall light on for those late night bathroom trips. And for the dogs we leave the 1 tv on basically 24/7. It really helps with the beagle's anxiety especially when we are not home.

[MayraLR]

I don't leave any lights on at night. There is a street light at the end of my fence, so the front of my house isn't dark at all.