Do you leave lights on overnight?

Reverbe

greenbee wrote: »

I don't leave any lights on but sleep with the curtains open and have recently been told that this could cause poor quality sleep and also be linked to health problems. Some info here. Given that it never gets properly dark round here I guess I'm going to have to sort out blinds and get used to being in the dark.
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Could be.. we only have one curtain as the pelmet is broken.. and on my side of the room there is no curtain and I do not get decent sleep. flatmate is the hit the pillow sparkout sort and snores like Pumbaa the warthog so I lie there at least a few hrs and then get workn early also.. getting about 4 hrs a night on average

Puddleglum

MIL uses a torch if she needs to get up in the night. It's quite a weighty one so could double up as a cosh if she had to bop a burglar on the bonce. DM reckons that if she has to switch a light on at night then it resets her body clock and she can not get back to sleep. We only leave lights on by mistake and get annoyed with ourselves if this happens!

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

We have one of those moonlight plug ins that omits a green glow and that stays on overnight.
Theres only two of us but to go to the loo through the night means turning on two sets of lights and that would be 6 bulbs.
We only have the plug in on for safety,the dark does'nt bother us.
However we live in a quirky old house and to get to the loo from our room we have to go along a landing down two stairs along a shorter bit of landing up two stairs and then along the landing before you get to the bathroom :mad:.
You can understand we try to wait till we are desperate and have no choice but to get up :rotfl:its quite a trek.
I've tripped many a time on the stairs so my husband bought the nightlight and for what it costs to run its well worth it.

ChocClare

That sounds like our house, MrsTM. I have three stairs and an extra bit of landing to the loo. Believe me, nothing wakes you up faster when you've got up for an early morning still-dark wee and are walking to the loo with your eyes closed than to THINK you've gone down all three steps and find you've actually only gone down two. I fell absolutely flat on my face and turned my ankle quite badly. I then lay awake wondering how I could have been so PATHETICALLY STUPID and thanking the good Lord that none of the family had woken up and seen me, stretched out and embarrassed to the point of mortification on the upstairs landing... :rotfl:

jackieb

I don't leave lights on at night. I wouldn't ever go to my bed and leave the washer on either - far too scared!

A tip - never buy teenagers blackout blinds. I got some after we replaced the windows. One of my worst buys ever. No teenager ever needs an excuse to lay in their beds! But they're too expensive to just change.

If you want light, what about having some night light plugs?

Phils_debt

Turn the lights off at night but for some bizarre reason my dd(9) likes to leave hers on in the day when shes at school and we are at work ;and she doesnt learn :mad: :rotfl:

jackieb

greenbee wrote: »

I don't leave any lights on but sleep with the curtains open and have recently been told that this could cause poor quality sleep and also be linked to health problems. Some info here. Given that it never gets properly dark round here I guess I'm going to have to sort out blinds and get used to being in the dark.

I've just recently got curtains after having no window coverings on my own bedroom window (we're not overlooked, and we redecorated last year and never got round to replacing the old ones). I can't believe the difference in my sleep since I have curtains. I've slept all night since, and I always used to wake up at least once through the night - usually more. They're not blackout curtains though - I learnt my lesson with the kids rooms!

patricia50

Pee wrote: »

I am on economy 7, not my choice we share an electric supply with the neighbour, so this presumably cuts the cost of the light on over night.

I either put the washing machine on when going out to work or, more often now I have a timer, overnight. I am not aware of it being a fire risk. By definition it does have a water supply going into it.

Washing machines are a fire risk. I know of someone who left theirs going while popping to the shop and their house almost burnt down because of this.

catpaws99

I leave the light at the bottom of the stairs on overnight. Bathroom is downstairs and the light for the stairs is actually right at the top and our landing is basically a 1m square. Leave it on as I really wouldn't want on of the children to fall down the stairs for the sake of a few pence a night.

pigpen

I have the landing light on day and night.. my landing has no windows so it is pitch black otherwise.. and falling downstairs in the midde of the night is not my idea of fun.

All other lights are off