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Friggin Exterior Christmas Lights
Am I the only one who hates to put up Christmas Lights?
I bought all new lights last year and this year 4 out of 10 strands dont work! Sure I can go to the trouble of repairing them, but screw it I just toss them out and buy more. What a chinese scam. Next year no more. I will hire someone to do it. ($500.00). I forgot to mention some 52 year old guy is dead from falling off the ladder in Aliso Viejo, CA.
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Just do what I do, leave 'em up year round...
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Just redress them as pilgrims and a turkey for Thanksgiving
or a witch and her big cat for halloween. 
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"Yeah, we're the 3rd house on the right. Next to the guy with the christmas lights still up." sorry, but my vote is for Whiskey Tango on the year rounder
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If you're NOT joking about the wife comment, you're my idol
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I hate them. I had to do the whole house in the rain this year.
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In an ideal world I would be living in a single story home...
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Marry a Jewish girl.
Take Menorah out of box, stick in window, plug-in. Simple. We still do lights though she likes them, agree they are a pain. Scott
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I was putting up the lights and the ladder shifted as it slid down the side of the brick. I reached through the ladder and grabbed onto the gutter to stop the motion. Scraped up my knuckles and was it REALLY SCARY. I'm going to pull them down with a pole.
Only things I hate more than the lights are a sloppy job of putting up lights and ladders.
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Ask Britwrench what he thinks of ladders...if he can remember.
Glad you pulled through Mark!
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I had a man lift on loan to me once and I got up in the eaves and put in pulleys and continuous plastic -coated wire rope in a flagpole type hoist layout, now I just hoist them up the flagpoles, so to speak with some electrical tape every few feet. Oh, used turnbuckles to keep the sag out of the wire rope.
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Thankfully, we have no external sockets on our house.
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Minkoff is right, buy them at Wal-Mart just before Thanksgiving to get the assortment you want. Display them from sometime after T-Day to sometime around Jan 1 and then throw the lot out in the trash. Not worth trying to untangle these little b!tches and find the ONE bulb that is cracked or whatever.
I have all kinds of lights to use as I please each year, but the minis give me the biggest headache. They're just not worth the trouble to store for 11 months. I hated them from the start, but they do use less electricity, something I'm in favor of big time. Several years ago, I put on the tool belt and installed the clever permanent hangers in the stucco with plastic anchors. Now it takes a hour to string the whole house. Mini icicles come in 9 foot lengths. Work around that module and you're golden. |
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After New Years day, instead of driving my car, I'm going to repackage the 100' LED light string into it's original compact cardboard box.
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On December 1st I become a Jehova Witness and on December 31st I renounce the faith. For some reason it just happens every year.
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I don't do exterior Christmas decorations, never have and never will. We have a nice tree and interior decorations but I've never felt compelled to decorate the exterior of the house...
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Get LED christmas lights...very durable, no heat, look wicked ontree and railing!
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