Your fruitcake sounds wonderful!

The lights in my yard are a pop of light in one corner of the yard, I don't put them on the house or windows, etc. I have a wreath on the front door. I grew up in a house that looked like a gingerbread house with a steamed-shingle roof meant to look like a thick thatch, so we always put lights along the roofline to fit the look. That was plenty of holiday lighting for a lifetime (my brother and I took turns up the ladder to install the lights.)

I had to look at the age of the mayo in my fridge to give you an educated guess—my jar sell-by date was during the summer 2022, and I'll keep using it until it's gone. If you're not sure, toss it, mayonnaise won't break the bank if you buy a new jar.