Saturday, December 6, 2008

Lights

As you can see, Taggie found his spot for today in the light fixture. Where will he go next??

Can I just describe some of my frustration with the outside Christmas lights?! We try to make a nice display for everyone to enjoy including the children. I must preface this with the following information. Our Christmas lights/trees/deer etc...that are outside are either new this year or were used last year for approximately 4 weeks--all one Christmas-year old or less. That said, every day something malfunctions. The girl deer has a head that doesn't light up. The spiral has the top section of lights out. Today, the LED spiral tree has a section of lights out. Two sets of icicle lights have sections out. There is only so much "fixing" & "replacing" we can or will do. I am not going to fork over tons of money to keep replacing things that only work for a 1-4 weeks!!
Last year, we had floodlights on the front. One worked for less than a week, the other about two, and the third made it for the entire time. We kept the third one and of course, it did not work this year. It's pretty pathetic when Christmas decorations don't even last for one entire Christmas season!!!!!!!!

When we lit up the display, everything was working with the exception of one stick tree which we replaced with a new spiral tree. That tree has fallen over in the picture. Maybe by Christmas, it will just be wreaths and greenery! I'm annoyed =).


Yes, it's only a minor very minor irritation and no it's not important at all really.


I guess I will add pics later. Blogger is acting funny--like Christmas lights.





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3 comments:

MiBlog said...

when we put a hex on your house for being so cute next to our ho-hum decor, we didn't know it would actually WORK! LOL! sorry!

Jeanette said...

One more reason why I decided against a ton of decorations outside this year. Just tired of all the extra work!

ADMIN said...

I always had lots of problems with lights and oudoor displays, too. This year I decided to go green and skip the lights-we just have huge plastic candy canes, giant ribbons, and wreaths outdoors.
Good luck with yours!