Do you turn off your exterior lights? Neighbors giving us grief about ours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I am having the same problem. I live in an old house that has nice big windows. My neighbor shines a very bright light outside his garage and his light is not anywhere near any of his windows. When we sit on our back porch we are lit up by his light, and when we sit in our sunroom, I can read the names of the books on our shelves by his light. It is not pleasant to sit in those rooms any more or to be outside. We live in an old house which cannot be air conditioned and we need the windows opened so no window air conditioners either. Their light shines straight in to our house and lights all of our house up. They never experience the obnoxiousness of their own lights. When I walk out my back door, their light goes on when it is on sensor. Most of the time they keep it on all night long. We really don't want to live here any more. I think they should move it so that it is on the front of their house and so that it illuminates their house and not mine.

1) Ask nicely if they can perhaps direct the light away from your house
2) It's not their fault you don't have central air, that is your issue, they do not have to regulate THEIR lives according to your choices .AT.ALL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's a miracle of nature that your genes made it through 30,000+ years we existed without electricity but there is just no way you can possibly survive without your precious wittle baby nite lights. That goes for all of you light freaks in this thread, stop being ridiculous and wasting electricity and expecting OTHER people to block off THEIR windows just so you can have YOUR stupid night lights on all bloody night. You don't have the right to take away someone's utility of their windows. I have a dispute with my neighbor who has a side porch light adjacent to my bedroom window. I'm a 200 lb man with a pistol on my nightstand and she's a little divorcee and she expects me to block off my window so she can keep her stupid light on, even though if it comes down to it what is she gonna do if some tweaker is tryin to break into her car at night? Call the cops and wait three hrs to make a report? No thanks, I'm not blocking off my window so I can't see outside, that makes zero sense for security reasons and until we settle it I will unscrew her bulb every night. All people expect is a little courtesy it goes along way, don't be a wanker.

you are loco. i would call cops on you for trespassing.

[Anonymous]

I have a neighbor whose light points into my window directly in a room - how much fossil fuel does this idiot burn to light up my office on main floor at night. I have to go yell at him if a bedroom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you turn off your front and backyard lights at night? Our neighborhood had a couple of car break- ins recently and we have decided to to turn on our front and backdoor lights at night. Our neighbors take issue to it because they say it bothers their sleep. They suggest we change to motion sensing, but DH thinks motion sensing is not reliable. FWIW, our lights are frosted 60w fixtures, and not the bright flood lights.

WWYD.

When our neighbor told us the light was shining into their bedroom we turned it off. Even though we were doing it for a good reason too we decided that their comfort outweighed the risk of a break-in. You should do the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor whose light points into my window directly in a room - how much fossil fuel does this idiot burn to light up my office on main floor at night. I have to go yell at him if a bedroom

LEDs are terribly efficient these days. Your one piece of toast can run his light for a week!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor whose light points into my window directly in a room - how much fossil fuel does this idiot burn to light up my office on main floor at night. I have to go yell at him if a bedroom

LEDs are terribly efficient these days. Your one piece of toast can run his light for a week!

It an old double spot light. Even stranger a rental and guy has two large dogs and a fenced yard. And light is in fenced section.

[Anonymous]

why won't tired 6 YEAR OLD thread die.

[Anonymous]

Omg, why bring a post back from 2012??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you turn off your front and backyard lights at night? Our neighborhood had a couple of car break- ins recently and we have decided to to turn on our front and backdoor lights at night. Our neighbors take issue to it because they say it bothers their sleep. They suggest we change to motion sensing, but DH thinks motion sensing is not reliable. FWIW, our lights are frosted 60w fixtures, and not the bright flood lights.

WWYD.

When our neighbor told us the light was shining into their bedroom we turned it off. Even though we were doing it for a good reason too we decided that their comfort outweighed the risk of a break-in. You should do the same.

1) you’re not going to have a break in
2) your light would not deter a breakin it would just light the way
3) you are being ridiculous

[Anonymous]

Can you ask them to adjust the angle so it does not shine right in your area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I am having the same problem. I live in an old house that has nice big windows. My neighbor shines a very bright light outside his garage and his light is not anywhere near any of his windows. When we sit on our back porch we are lit up by his light, and when we sit in our sunroom, I can read the names of the books on our shelves by his light. It is not pleasant to sit in those rooms any more or to be outside. We live in an old house which cannot be air conditioned and we need the windows opened so no window air conditioners either. Their light shines straight in to our house and lights all of our house up. They never experience the obnoxiousness of their own lights. When I walk out my back door, their light goes on when it is on sensor. Most of the time they keep it on all night long. We really don't want to live here any more. I think they should move it so that it is on the front of their house and so that it illuminates their house and not mine.

1) Ask nicely if they can perhaps direct the light away from your house
2) It's not their fault you don't have central air, that is your issue, they do not have to regulate THEIR lives according to your choices .AT.ALL

There is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO LIGHT THE OUTDOORS AT NIGHT!! No reason at all. The sun has gone down - go with that. And she is doing the environment a favor by not having and running an energy sucking central air system. We have terrible climate change induced weather events going on all over the world but people still overconsume for selfish and useless reasons.

Our neighbors posted video footage of our thrice weekly car breakins on the list serve. That’s interesting to see once but it serves no purpose - they are shadowy fully clothed masked guys breaking into cars right under spotlights and street lights both. The lights are useless. Best to let the wildlife function normally (owls eating rodents anyone? ) and let your neighbors sleep - turn off the lights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you ask them to adjust the angle so it does not shine right in your area?

Also we have a spotlight that turns on when you walk to put out the trash - it’s pointed down and it’s a not very bright green so low light. Then it turns off when you go inside.

[Anonymous]

There is room for compromise. We have outdoor landscape lighting. They are on from dusk till dawn. But they are fairly dim. They provide safety for anyone arriving or leaving home after dark and are likely a deterrent to criminals. But they aren't bright enough to disturb our neighbors' sleep. Or ours. We also keep the front and back porch lights on. Again, they are not bright.

[Anonymous]

I thought I was the only one who had neighbors wanting to live in the dark. There’s no way I will keep my lights off at night. We live in the surb city. If your neighbors want to live in the dark, then send them to live in a cave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
It's a miracle of nature that your genes made it through 30,000+ years we existed without electricity but there is just no way you can possibly survive without your precious wittle baby nite lights. That goes for all of you light freaks in this thread, stop being ridiculous and wasting electricity and expecting OTHER people to block off THEIR windows just so you can have YOUR stupid night lights on all bloody night. You don't have the right to take away someone's utility of their windows. I have a dispute with my neighbor who has a side porch light adjacent to my bedroom window. I'm a 200 lb man with a pistol on my nightstand and she's a little divorcee and she expects me to block off my window so she can keep her stupid light on, even though if it comes down to it what is she gonna do if some tweaker is tryin to break into her car at night? Call the cops and wait three hrs to make a report? No thanks, I'm not blocking off my window so I can't see outside, that makes zero sense for security reasons and until we settle it I will unscrew her bulb every night. All people expect is a little courtesy it goes along way, don't be a wanker.

you are loco. i would call cops on you for trespassing.

+ a million

Dude, move where you don't have neighbors. You aren't mean to be in society.