I hate Christmas lights!!!

thebeachbumm33 · Post by **thebeachbumm33** » November 21, 2007 2:29 pm

Tell me why you put them away in perfect running condition one year and when you retrieve them the following year they don't work

I try to put up my outside lights before TG each year but it doesn't look like it's going to happen this year

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » November 21, 2007 2:34 pm

overachiever.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » November 21, 2007 4:49 pm

That's one of the reasons I don't decorate for Christmas anymore.

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » November 21, 2007 5:10 pm

I love looking at Christmas lights and appreciate all the work everyone goes to in making their homes look beautiful.

I can't do it anymore because of back problems, but don't give up.
Your efforts don't go unnoticed.

Skibo · Post by **Skibo** » November 21, 2007 6:38 pm

Aren't they cheap enough now that you can just buy new ones every season?

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » November 21, 2007 6:56 pm

Just leave 'em up all year.

dnw · Post by **dnw** » November 21, 2007 8:09 pm

popcornjack wrote:Just leave 'em up all year.

No!

inked-parrotthead · Post by **inked-parrotthead** » November 21, 2007 9:48 pm

They are a pain in the......I put them up and decorate each year for Mrs.Inked and my two little un inked boys,if not for them I would never,nor would I drag a tree into my house.X-mas just isnt my thing.

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » November 21, 2007 10:08 pm

Skibo wrote:Aren't they cheap enough now that you can just buy new ones every season?

I buy mine when they go on sale (50% off) after christmas. And yes, mine are ALL up

ContinentalDrifterIII · **JoNeS BeAcH 8/21/14**

I am the Clarke Griswold of Long Island. If the lights break just put even more up!!!!

thebeachbumm33 · Post by **thebeachbumm33** » November 21, 2007 10:21 pm

Skibo wrote:Aren't they cheap enough now that you can just buy new ones every season?

It's not the point, they were working when I put them away last year, they should be working again this year. I ended up getting new lights, put them all out and went to light them up and bang one of the new strands were defective

so back I went ripping them down, talked to myself quite irately

all the way back to the store, gave up for the night. As of right now I'm going to have a small electric bill this year

pojo · Post by **pojo** » November 21, 2007 11:33 pm

thebeachbumm33 wrote:Tell me why you put them away in perfect running condition one year and when you retrieve them the following year they don't work I try to put up my outside lights before TG each year but it doesn't look like it's going to happen this year

you too.......

pbans · Post by **pbans** » November 22, 2007 12:34 am

Skibo wrote:Aren't they cheap enough now that you can just buy new ones every season?

YEP.....that's the conclusion I came to a couple of years ago....

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » November 22, 2007 12:38 am

a few weeks ago my new neighbor mentioned that he's the king of Christmas lights.
Well, we'll see about that!!!I'll start putting mine up after turkey day.

AdamBomb8 · Post by **AdamBomb8** » November 22, 2007 5:09 pm

I started Griswalding my home about 2 weeks ago. Only have 2 weekdays off a week to do anything so had to start a bit early. Hoping to have them all up and on Monday night, if not then next Thurs. for sure.

inked-parrotthead · Post by **inked-parrotthead** » November 23, 2007 6:55 am

Ok,I put mine up,after we ate our Turkey we flipped them on and,like every year some of them dont work!!!! It sucks,now today I will have to grab up a couple more strands and throw them up!!!

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » November 23, 2007 10:00 am

Ummmmm, from the sounds of things, there must be a HUGE draw on ConEd our whomever supplies the wattage out there! Griswolding has become part of the world's vocabulary!

We decided a few years back to "green" up our outside decorations more. So we have cut back to three lower watt floods, aimed at our house where we have big, REAL, compostable-later, fir wreaths with reusable cones and ribbons, holly from our own bushes, etc. It is understated, but looks elegant. We don't get the surge in power bill that poor ol' Clark did!!!!

lilsalty · Post by **lilsalty** » November 24, 2007 11:13 am

It's officially Griswolding time...we're off to get some garland and then it's time to put up the lights!

citcat · Post by **citcat** » November 24, 2007 11:41 am

I think that during the summer, some of the bulbs run away to the Caribbean and don't come back.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » November 24, 2007 3:52 pm

I dont do lights - why attract heat to an already hot place in the middle of summer?

Some people have started doing it to their houses here over the last few years - while they look pretty - they are pretty stupid to attract heat ...

and

ITS NOT GOOD TO GLOBAL WARMING!

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