The Saga of the Christmas Lights About This Page:

[graygables]

So, I go to light the Christmas tree (traditional Friday after T-day thing) and NONE of the lights work. Not a single one in 8 strings! DH gets out his multi-tester and the fuses are fine, bulbs are fine, but not working (and we tried several outlets). So, I go to Hobby Lobby to buy 8 new strings of lights. I get home and start to open them when, lo and behold, the wires/bases are WHITE! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] Not what I thought I was getting. Seems like, in my haste, I picked up 3 green wired and 5 white wired. So, I head back out to Hobby Lobby. I decided to dash into Target since I'm out to pick up stuff at the dollar spot for DDs music/church teachers and head on over. Get my replacement lights and come home. Yay! They are all green! So, I plug in the thingy on the tree pole and nothing, nada, zilch. Seems like that has gone bad, too. I have to take that off the tree and wire on an extension cord at this point. I light the tree (it takes me a couple of hours, anyway), get to the top where I can't reach and call DH in to help. I use a 20 strand at the top, so I pulled the new one out and there is a bulb not working. OKaaaaayyyy, replace the bulb, and still not working. Apparently there is something bad in the socket. All the other lights are OK, but not one, so DH refuses to use it (fire hazard and all). So in the morning, I get to make ANOTHER trip to Hobby Lobby for my dinky little 20 light string and MAYBE get the tree finished! DDs are so upset since we should be decorating tonight, but DH is refusing to "fluff" the branches until all the lights are on, so I guess it will be tomorrow before the tree is done. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

So...anyone else have a Fun With Lights story???

[iamgrumpy]

We decorated our tree about 5 years ago everything lights, garland, ornaments, tree falls, pick up all the broken pieces and then redo it. falls again...go buy fake tree now no more worries!

Amy

[DopeyGirl]

Not really a story but we put everything up the wrong way out front today and had to take it all down and then back up in order to plug it in right! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[lonereb]

I don't have a tree story but I will tell you about my mom and dad's.

The first story is about the cat. Cat crawls under the tree and he is a chewer sometimes. Need I say more. He starts chewing on a string of lights and my dad hears a sizzle and sees the cat running like mad out from under the tree.

The next story involves the cat again but, this time it's different. Mom and dad notice the cat keeps going up to the tree, looking at it and meowing. They then hear something in the tree chattering. IT'S A SQUIRREL. My dad opens up the sliding glass door and tries to shoo the squirrel out of the tree. Doesn't work. So he calls the nature center in our town and they come with there squirrel catcher and get the squirrel out of the tree. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]

Never had these problems before the cat arrived. Oh well, it's Christmas. You roll with the flow and laugh about it later. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img]

[debsta922]

Yikes Dawn... we've been lucky so far, no major problems yet.

[disneymom9092]

Oh my goodness Dawn-what a fiasco!

[elbug10]

The first year after Mom died, Dad and I decided we couldn't face getting out all our traditional decorations, so on Christmas Eve, Dad bought all new stuff, including an artificial tree; we'd always had real that he'd cut down before. All he could find were red and green lights and a gold lame tree skirt, so the tree was red on the top and bottom and green in the middle; talk about gaudy! Plus, my cousin and I put the lights on, went to plug them in and had the wrong end; had to redo them all!

When I was little Dad would go cut down a tree. Sometimes Mom and I would make him get another one if we didn't like his choice. For some reason, his trees never had any middle, just a top and bottom that were full, which you had to cut off to get into the house; ever try to decorate a tree with ONE branch? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] I didn't know real trees could be symetrical until I went to college in the city! We always said our trees were the "Charlie Brown Trees" that Dad felt the sorriest for.

When we had the cat, she used to like to sit under the tree, I think she thought she was in the woods! One time, Dad brought a tree inside that the cat wouldn't go near. Once it warmed up a few hours after being inside it started to STINK! Turns out it had been used as a bathroom by a coyote or something! We got another tree FAST!