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[Boatman]

Well it's that time of year for light putting up outside.  What's the deal with the miniature lights?

Only half the strand works?

All lights worked when you took them down last year but now either don't work or 1/2 a strand works?

How do they get so tangled up over summer storeage?

I check the fuses in the strand ends, check the bulbs, and they still don't work.

Do you just buy new lights each years?


             

[Screamin]

Yes. Every stinkin year. The wife always runs around looking for replacements, checks them out, they fail, I go to the store and freeze my arse off hanging them.

[MontyB]

Consider switching over to LED lights. They're virtually indestructible and I don't have to replace them every year.

Available lots of places & not expensive anymore. Here's some from Target:
http://www.target.com/Lights-LED-Christmas-Decorations/b/ref=sc_pfp_r_9_0_728011011_2/181-8431471-2884453?ie=UTF8&node=727916011

Merry Christmas!

[RJ749]

Well it's that time of year for light putting up outside.  What's the deal with the miniature lights?

Only half the strand works?

All lights worked when you took them down last year but now either don't work or 1/2 a strand works?

How do they get so tangled up over summer storeage?

I check the fuses in the strand ends, check the bulbs, and they still don't work.

Do you just buy new lights each years?


             

So the wife gets a screamin deal on a commercial tree last year when Macy's is taking down the display trees.  I won't bore you with the details but a $1300 dollar tree ends up being $30.00 (lights half work).

So the last week she took all the old lights off (no easy chore) all were wire tied to the branches.

She hired a gal to come in and wrap it in new lights we got at COSTCO, GE 300 lights commercial grade at $20.00 a box.  She got 1200 lights and it did about half of a ten foot tree so back to COSTCO the next day and the tree now has 2250 lights on it and it cost $200.00 for the gal and $160.00 for the lights.

I hope it isn't a redo next year, that is one damned expensive $30.00 tree.

[REGGAB]

Too busy.......all three of us.  This year we're hanging a wreath above the front door and puttin' up a prelit fake tree.

[Guilty]

I switched to LED's a couple of years ago. They are more expensive but at least I don't have to replace them every year and the electricity expense for running the LED lights is much lower.

[sportygordy]

BAH HUM BUG   

[LRebel]

BAH HUM BUG   

    That's what my wife says about me because I refuse to put up Christmas lights.

My roof is a 12/12 pitch.... it's steep and a long way up there.  If I fall off the roof I might not be able to pay for the house    And we live in the country - 400 ft back off the road... it's not like we have a lot of neighbors to impress.

Christmas lights are cool... I just don't want to spend a whole weekend and $$$ to put them up just to have to take them back down in three weeks.

And the whole Christmas Tree deal... my wife spent $$$$ to have a 10ft tall "nice tree".  I have actually re-named our formal living room the "Christmas Tree" room... we loose the use of whole room at Christmas time.  The tree goes up - takes the wife a full day to decorate... and then it comes back down in three weeks and I have to put all the boxes back up in the attic  
I'm thinking that maybe we should just leave the tree up all year round.  We could take the Christmas decoration off after Christmas -- then put little red hearts on it for Valentine's Day -- Then green shamrocks on it for St. Patricks Day -- Hang Easter Eggs on it for Easter -- And maybe fireworks on it for Independence Day -- and... well you get the idea.  Why spend all that $$$$ and all the work for a short three week period

Yours Truly,
Ebenezer Scrooge

[hard10]

  That's what my wife says about me because I refuse to put up Christmas lights.

My roof is a 12/12 pitch.... it's steep and a long way up there.  If I fall off the roof I might not be able to pay for the house    And we live in the country - 400 ft back off the road... it's not like we have a lot of neighbors to impress.

Christmas lights are cool... I just don't want to spend a whole weekend and $$$ to put them up just to have to take them back down in three weeks.

And the whole Christmas Tree deal... my wife spent $$$$ to have a 10ft tall "nice tree".  I have actually re-named our formal living room the "Christmas Tree" room... we loose the use of whole room at Christmas time.  The tree goes up - takes the wife a full day to decorate... and then it comes back down in three weeks and I have to put all the boxes back up in the attic  
I'm thinking that maybe we should just leave the tree up all year round.  We could take the Christmas decoration off after Christmas -- then put little red hearts on it for Valentine's Day -- Then green shamrocks on it for St. Patricks Day -- Hang Easter Eggs on it for Easter -- And maybe fireworks on it for Independence Day -- and... well you get the idea.  Why spend all that $$$$ and all the work for a short three week period

Yours Truly,
Ebenezer Scrooge

Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! 

[RJ749]

Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! 

Yup

[Hoist!]

Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! 

Is there a 3rd Howie here?

Hoist!

[grandpadoc]

...pic from last year and I have to do it again this weekend.     She put the tree up today and spent all day messing with bulbs that didn't work and as soon as I walked in the door from work she wants me to fix it. I hate this x-mas _hit, can't we just have a longer Thanksgiving !!  Doc

[LRebel]

Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! 

And I thought I had an original idea 

[HogBreath]

I'm a gonna roll the Jester in the living room.....NA..I'll ride it in...Hang xmas lights all over her, and put xmas presents all around her.

[LarryB]

The only thing that is going to get lit up here is....me