A Household Survey of Christmas Lights Left on the Gutter
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities surveys 438 households on 24 suburban streets about when their gutter lights came down after twelfth night, finding a bimodal distribution with a median in week 6 and 13.3% still up in week 38, unmoved by the height of the dwelling. The University has fixed its own Take-Down Date at week 19 with no exemption, set a Bulb-Out Tolerance of 31% dark, and kept one Standing Strand lit on every building through the year.
| Authors | Iben Chikere , Marek Solheim , Anouk Mensah |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.ejtc4n |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_ejtc4n,
author = {Iben Chikere and Marek Solheim and Anouk Mensah},
title = {Groundwork for a Take-Down Date: A Household Survey of Christmas Lights Left on the Gutter},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.ejtc4n},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-christmas-lights-on-ejtc4n/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}