Lights on in every room.
Posted by Kozmicsky@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 8 comments
I broke that cycle as soon as I moved out on my own. I’m 49 and I still turn on lights sparingly.
Growing up the whole house was lit up everyday.
buttlipps@reddit
Lights out when you leave the room. Even for a minute. Im programmed. I've turned lights off on my partner, leaving the room they're in. This could also be old age setting in.
Intrepid_Bicycle7818@reddit
In our day no one had a ADHD DX so we didn’t know that was going to happen.
I’ve got a diagnosed 17 year old who does like his meds so I’m stuck constantly closing the lights behind him.
Bill is still over $425 monthly
Just-Ice3916@reddit
With the right bulbs being absurdly cheap to use nowadays, I don't feel bad if someone happens to not turn off a light here and there. But, it's more about practicality: if you're done with a particular room for the night, turn the damn lights off so someone else isn't bugged by it or wasting mental energy wondering about it. This drove me nuts when staying at some other people's homes over the years (same as it did when growing up... very little made sense, especially when my parents balked about electricity costs but took no steps to conserve usage), but isn't thankfully really an issue in my home.
_WillCAD_@reddit
My family was the opposite. My dad's favorite thing was to yell down the stairs, "Turn off all those goddamn lights down there!" He seemed to be under the impression that the lights formed a major percentage of the monthly electric bill. Which may not have been entirely incorrect back in the days of incandescent bulbs. So I grew up in the habit of turning lights off when I left a room, only leaving light on in the room I currently occupied.
I still do that today, even though all the lights in my apartment are low-consumption LEDs. If I'm not in a room, the lights in that room are off.
cricket_bacon@reddit
This behavior would have gotten the, "why are all these lights on, do you think we own stock in the electric company?" comment from my Silent Generation parents... who were not that silent. ;-)
Positive-Froyo-1732@reddit
Yep, lights on when you entered a room, lights off when you left.
Open concept living has been a challenge in the 21st century. 😭
Honeybee71@reddit
Yep! No lights were ever left on, and I was a child afraid of the dark…couldn’t even have a night light!
Flat_Demand_8341@reddit
Few lights on in my childhood home.