One of the most underrated seasonal businesses in America: Christmas lights. A guy in our business buying Academy just bought a $700k a year exterior maintenance company that makes almost half its revenue from them. About $280k in a 6 to 8 week sprint. Rest of the year is split between deck restoration, house washing, and asphalt maintenance. The business is 27 years old. Spends around $3k a year on marketing. Rest of the jobs mostly come from repeat clients. A lot of buyers get scared off by seasonal businesses. He liked the split on this one: summer carries half the year (irrigation), Christmas lights carry the other.

🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ London's Deputy Mayor for Social Justice says Harry Potter-themed Christmas lights are "problematic," due to J.K. Rowling's views on transgender issues... Yet when Transport for London approved an advert of a Muslim cleric known for anti-gay remarks, not a word. The hypocrisy is UNREAL with these people. @jk_rowling / Writer: Mhedi

London's most festive pub, The Churchill Arms in Kensington has officially switched on its Christmas lights. And it appears that everyone’s mobile phone also switched on with it.

Special thank you to everyone that we called to help making our visit day so special: @christian_smith_event_lighting for installing the Christmas Lights to the exterior of both of the Alexandria House homes @GlamSquad for providing hair & make up pampering for all of the women

THE HOA SAID NO LIGHTS BEFORE DECEMBER. THE NEIGHBORS TURNED THEM ON ANYWAY!! Petty rebellion, or neighbors finally pushing back? After an HOA rule against early Christmas lights, the filmer shows neighbors switching theirs on anyway and then joins in. I'm not anti-rules. In our house we teach our kids to follow fair ones, even the ones they don't love. But there's a difference between a rule that protects the neighborhood and one that just polices joy. Lights in early November hurt nobody. The other side says you signed the covenants, so live with them. Fair enough. But if a whole street ignores the same rule at once, maybe the rule is the problem. Sometimes the neighborhood votes with a light switch.

🇬🇧 Over 10,000 people have emailed London's mayor, asking him to cancel the Harry Potter Christmas lights on Oxford Street over author J.K. Rowling's views on "trans issues." The campaign, by the Good Law Project, says the lights won't make trans people feel welcome. Sadiq Khan's office says the lights aren't his call, and the business group behind them is going ahead. The lights promote HBO's new Harry Potter series, which premieres on Christmas Day.

"Go back to 2024 with just a 72 hour lead time, Jason and the Cybertruck team put together a light show to fulfill a cancer fighter's wish. The night before she passed away, they came back and lit up the sky outside her hospital, and Jason's Cybertruck led her funeral line. Since then, we've met up at Tropicana Field to race luxury cars and Cybertrucks with kids fighting cancer for Bring Your Whip to Whip Pediatric Cancer for King. Most recently, we turned a Cybertruck into a Cyber Sleigh, filled it with toys, pretend snow, princesses and Christmas lights, and gave a sweet girl named Grace a Christmas full of magic. Whip Pediatric Cancer and the Cybertruck community have worked together for years, creating core memories for kids fighting cancer. Join us in this fight."