Christmas Lights

“There's a warning on some lights from China.... Wash your hands after touching them.

    Lead contamination!   What else?

        Happy Holidays....!

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“dude...I wouldn't be so lucky...lol”

“Carlette...just stand by the tree and smile. I'm sure the room will brighten up immediately!”

“I picked up a bunch of LED lights this year. I still have to put them up around the house though.”

“My wife has been down stairs cussing at the tree trying to get the thing all lit up.

"Don't look at me, it's your damn holiday, not mine."”

“I feel her pain...its dare I say one of the worst disappointments each year!

what burns me up is I plugged in each strand before even putting the little boogers on the tree.....only to get them all on...step back all satisfied with myself checking it out...went to get some sweet tea from the refrig...walked back in the den and boom nothing. A resounding S H I T rang out with a clatter.”

“Yup.

About 15 feet of red-green-blue LEDs wrapped around a 4-foot alberta spruce in a pot by the front door.... with a ceramic angel on top.

thassit!



oh yeah..... Stocking filled with Toblerone hung from the mantle.”

“I've had LED Christmas lights going back many many years (you know, trying to do my part to save the world). I'm sick of them. I think I'll buy new lights this year that aren't LED. They are so embarrassing. They make the house look like the creepy Christmas house. I think LEDs are better for Halloween.”

“went to walmart today and picked up one of those trees with the lights already on it, our 2nd artificial tree bit the dust last year. 2 trees in 24 years, not bad. it was so cheap i called up ErinAnne to ask her if she wanted me to pick her one too. $29.97 for a 6.5 ft tree with lights on; of course she said yes, visions of real tree went right out of her head, (after consulting with Kenyon first). i gifted her and Kenyon early with two 14 packs of glass Christmas balls in multicolors, a tree skirt, 52 feet of ribbons to use as garland, a dozen bows, tinsel, and hooks to hang up the ornaments. when she came home we went to Michaels to find stuff to craft more ornaments. and when we unpack our Christmas ornaments, she will get her her childhood ornaments to use for their tree. Kenyon will go to his house this weekend and get his childhood ornaments too. it's their first Christmas together.”

“I love those pre-lit trees! They make putting up the tree a joy. The lights were always a painful experience. My advice if you're going to get one, make sure it's the type that just the burnt out light goes out and not the entire string, otherwise you're find yourself just as frustrated as before.”

“Ah, the bad old days of the big hot incandescent bulbs (wired in series, of course....)

In saw some in a catalog made to *look* like those old-timey ones, but not operate like them.”

“I loved them old lights, especially the ones like candles and such that bubbled and the little carossel twirly things you would hand over the lights, the heat of which made them go round and round...”

“We prefer a natural tree and adding our own lights. Just doesn't feel right destroying the environment with a fake tree.”

“I'm bringing my mother up for Christmas this year and my daughter and her b/f will visit from Eagle River. When we all get together, we'll hop in the jeep and drive across the road and harvest a blue spruce from the edge of my field. I want to make it as close to old timey as possible for my mom; she can't have too many left at 85 (can she, lol?).”

“Nimblefoot: You just never know...plant some more trees!!

Yeah, we have a "pre-lit" tree too...almost too easy.”

“If installing Christmas lights stresses you out ... you're doing it wrong.”

“Just wear gloves, right? Nothing like a tree needle under your fingernail to get the curses flowing.”

“Go ahead and string your lights and spread your cheer.

I will come in the night when all are asleep and TAKE IT ALL!!!!!

and i'll bring my little reindog too!

MUAH HA HA HA HA”