Tight, yes - Mean, no
My great aunt and uncle have a nice home, and nice things, but pensions are shit and they need to save every penny to be able to keep those nice things in their nice house.

So calling on them after dark can be tricky as they love to save on lighting costs: -

From the outside the house looks empty as EVERY light in the house is off. Only when you enter can you see the TV is the only thing on.

My uncle uses his LED head torch to navagate the house.

Also, for nightime peeing trips (as old folk seem to do quite a lot of) the colour change solar powered gnomes get brought in from the garden to light the way in a crazy silent rave way.

Bless um.
(Beejster, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:19, 3 replies)

"solar powered gnomes get brought in from the garden to light the way in a crazy silent rave way."
*click*
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 9:34, closed)

^ This fabulous mental image
Deary lorks alordy. After causing much drink-related spluttering / exerting a mystical lure on my sanity, in true x-filesian fashion They Exist. Google has spoken.

I'm resisting the little voices ordering credit cards, amazon parcels, and rows of bastardised said icons of tackiness to make their imminent appearance.
Thats the Halloween front wall/road decorations sorted then..
Paedo-masochist orgy frieze, or hoodied mini-Mr-Stabby gangland warfare? Any more tasteless suggestions?
(Hikikomori** watching cartoons on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 20:30, closed)

Sad and superb
*click*
(Harold's hip man!!, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:51, closed)