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re: Do you leave your porch lights on at night?
Posted on 8/22/25 at 1:03 pm to tigergal918
Posted on 8/22/25 at 1:03 pm to tigergal918
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I turn ours off. Daughters' rooms are on the front of the house so it would shine right into her room.
Don’t blinds or curtains limit this though?
Keeping it on to provide visibility seems to make more sense, especially with someone you care about’s room eight there.
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Posted on 8/22/25 at 1:43 pm to Adajax
Soft white dusk to dawn bulbs. Haven’t touched the switch in months.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 2:02 pm to Adajax
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He also says leaving the lights on is an undue burden on the grid and ultimately the climate
Posted on 8/22/25 at 2:04 pm to Adajax
Of course I leave my porch lights on at night.
What’s the point in having porch lights if you’re going to use them?
What’s the point in having porch lights if you’re going to use them?
Posted on 8/22/25 at 2:04 pm to Adajax
My wife likes the house to be lit up so I had landscape lighting put in. No need for the porch light.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 2:09 pm to Adajax
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Do you leave your porch lights on at night
Nope, neither front nor back stays on all night. I do have motion detecting lights to provide security, though.
Regardless, it is not nearly the deal it used to be because LED light bulbs use very little power.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:03 pm to Adajax
No, we have some ground cover lighting
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:06 pm to Adajax
Yes. Front porch, back porch and side LEDs.
I like light.
I like light.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:08 pm to pickle311
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My wife likes the house to be lit up so I had landscape lighting put in. No need for the porch light.
Same. I always wanted the entire front porch lit up, but now that we have uplighting installed throughout the front and back yard, I don't fuss when the porch isn't lit up.
I still like it better lit up, though
Just hate the bugs it can attract.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:11 pm to Adajax
quote:...for a porch light? Bro needs to get a grip
He also says leaving the lights on is an undue burden on the grid and ultimately the climate, unnecessarily increasing the electric bill.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:11 pm to Adajax
Every house in my neighborhood is lit up like a fricking football stadium. It completely obstructs the night sky. I leave my lights off.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 3:11 pm to Adajax
OFF Dark Sky, want to see the stars.
No crime where I live.
No crime where I live.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 4:00 am to Adajax
No
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:08 am to Adajax
Gas lanterns on, plus landscape lighting onto house/columns. Sometimes I’ll add the porch cans too (dimmed 50%). Porch lights on 100% takes away from the lanterns and other lighting IMO
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:10 am to Adajax
Leave my front one on. Have led lights on driveway that have light sensors. They turn on when sun goes down and off at sunrise
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:33 am to Adajax
I leave all my floodlights and carport light on. And they’re bright.
Bad actors with bad intentions go to the dark.
It’s a total of 11 LED floodlights and I don’t care if it bothers the neighbors or not. They don’t care if they’re cats or barking dogs bother me.
It cost less than a dollar a day to keep all of them on 24 seven but I turn them off when I get up in the morning and turn them on after dark.
They are bright enough that I can operate in my house just from the light shining through the windows.
No one is going to sneak up on me with ill intentions and if they try to I will see them and they are going to have a surprisingly bad day.
Bad actors with bad intentions go to the dark.
It’s a total of 11 LED floodlights and I don’t care if it bothers the neighbors or not. They don’t care if they’re cats or barking dogs bother me.
It cost less than a dollar a day to keep all of them on 24 seven but I turn them off when I get up in the morning and turn them on after dark.
They are bright enough that I can operate in my house just from the light shining through the windows.
No one is going to sneak up on me with ill intentions and if they try to I will see them and they are going to have a surprisingly bad day.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:33 am to mdomingue
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Even incandescent lights are low draw and inexpensive to operate. LEDs use a fraction of the electricity that incandescents do, so the cost and burden nowadays are incredibly insignificant.
If half of the 148,000,000 homes in America leave a single 7 watt LED bulb burning from midnight to 6 AM, that’s 3,108 Megawatt-hours consumed nightly. That’s about $93k on the wholesale market.
Whether that is “significant” is a subjective debate. Nighttime is typically low demand, so this isn’t moving the needle in terms of sources required or new lines being built. This is less than $0.005 worth of nightly household cost.
Evaluated singularly, you have to conclude that it’s no big deal. The broader argument is based on a not totally unfounded slippery slope basis. If you live your life as if you have no responsibility for energy or resource conservation, and 78 million other households do the same, you become what the US is - a nation of gluttons feasting on abundant resources with the technological prowess and just enough self-awareness to isolate ourselves, at least temporarily, from our irresponsible ways.
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