I have to confess to a "paper lantern fetish." I buy 'em all the time and have enough to hang from all the tree limbs. I think we've used them once, and even then, everyone wound up inside. By the time it's cool enough to use them again, it'll be our rainy season (I hope), so I won't want to risk leaving them out. I think I'll just string 'em up all over the living room one of these days and have neighbors and friends over for margaritas in homage to the rain gods who've abandoned us.