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129.2 #2591 (DL Qual #459)
December 3, 2011 9:08 PM
So it's the holiday season and most everyone is decorating in some way, either putting up a small tree or going completely Griswald. We keep it pretty simple here at the Untrustable residence, and as we decorate, I begin to wonder about all of you and how you react in the situation we will all be faced with at some point or another. While putting up lights, you come across a strand that only half of the lights work in. Do you replace the fuses and look for the offending bulb, getting angrier and angrier as time drags by and you feel like you've replaced every stinking bulb in the cussed strand at least three stinking times and still the blasted lights are out and you just want to scream at the top of your lungs so that all the neighbors can hear but you just don't care because why should they sit there in their nicely decorated home while you pull your hair out trying to find that one bulb that has completely ruined your Christmas? Or do you just skip all the cursing and toss the strand in the garbage and buy a new one?
Buy a new strand. - tina
1154.7 #70 10:04PM
I mean tl;dr. - tina 1154.7 #70 10:25PM
😂😂 Nice try - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 10:26PM
cliff notes - toph
2398.6 #26 10:15PM
Lazy - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 10:26PM
you already know! - toph 2398.6 #26 12:03AM
😂 - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 12:12AM
I pull them apart, cuss at them, THEN I throw them away. And I apply this rule to all non-functioning objects in my house - Missshelly
690.3 #147 10:15PM
I think we might be the same person. - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 10:22PM
Did we just become best friends? - tina 1154.7 #70 12:12AM
you had me at cuss😂 for real😂😂 - toph 2398.6 #26 12:26AM
Griswold. All day, every day. - John
312.0 #547 10:38PM
Is your house on fire, Clark? - John 312.0 #547 10:55PM
isn't there a place that you can turn in your old lights for percent off towards new lights? i'd do that - ministrychick77
276.1 #766 12:00AM
Home depot, I think. There was a commercial, but I'm not sure what store - Madi 204.1 #1571 12:13AM
By the time I decide to get rid of them, knowing that they will spend the rest of eternity rotting in a landfill gives me great pleasure. - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 12:15AM
I learned my lesson a long time ago. Just go buy a new strand - 2princessdad
1025.1 #85 12:15AM
Lol. My husband's very organized and he sifts through all of the lights and patiently checks and fixes them. If it were me, I would get frustrated and angry and eventually throw them away and go buy new ones. - Spoonful_O_Sugar
436.2 #285 9:12PM
You're the only person in here tonight that doesn't have me blocked😂😂😂 - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 10:02PM
I go thru each light. It hasn't happened in a few years though (knock on wood). - Polkadobo 372.1 #371 10:04PM
Lol, I was the only one who answered and then this thread blew up after I went to bed! - Spoonful_O_Sugar 436.2 #285 5:45AM
I used to have the patients to go through each light but now I just go buy another strand. - vegasbrat
403.8 #324 10:05PM
You must be a great doctor. - tina 1154.7 #70 10:09PM
😂😂 - iFramedRogerRabbit 1956.2 #36 10:40PM
😂😂😂💉 - Calypso 812.9 #113 10:41PM
Just buy a fake tree with prelit lights. DONE - ERICKA
491.4 #244 10:06PM
BOOOOOOO HISSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! - SplashTheHorseDot 129.2 #2591 10:07PM
I did that last year. My dog kept drinking the water which I know is bad and the stupid cats kept eating pine needles. Now I have a beautiful 7 ft per lit tree. So easy!!! - Nicole 380.2 #356 10:10PM
I got mine out yesterday and a strand was half out I messed with a few bulbs and gave up. And this week I'll probably call one of those light hanging people and let them go to work :) - Nicole
380.2 #356 10:08PM
This just happened to us last weekend. Half strand out for the tree. I told the BF let's get a new strand he said no way then spent a hour scrummeging(sp?) the entire house trying to find the mini baggy with two bulbs lol. He was very 👿😡👿😡. But he found it:) - BooEve123
800.3 #115 10:11PM
Take each light off one by one. Shuffle them up and put them back on. That usually works. Good luck. - DizGeek
453.3 #270 10:13PM
Buy a new strand of lights! And then buy some the day after Xmas at 50% off so you'll be prepared for next year. - MarieC
265.5 #866 10:17PM
This happened to us tonight. We set the strand to the side and kept going in the end we did not even need it. We did toss it.. - Lifeguardmom
292.5 #657 10:18PM
Replace bulbs. Which is what I'll be doing tomorrow evening. I've a pre-lit tree and 1/3 won't light. - JenAnneWho
300.7 #609 10:23PM
Hasn't happened yet (including earlier today when i finally put it up), but I got a prelit tree last year, the whole thing may get donated if it doesn't light, cuz I got rid of the old lights already. 😏😜 - bluefairy
627.1 #174 10:33PM
I throw away the tree lights every year and buy new.. And rarely put lights up outside.. Lazy. - Calypso
812.9 #113 10:42PM
Tree lights are like socks aren't they?? 😂😂 - Missshelly 690.3 #147 10:44PM
Completely!😂😂😂 I'm just LAZY!! 😂 - Calypso 812.9 #113 10:53PM
Forever...Lazy? 👕 - John 312.0 #547 10:55PM
Yep. - Calypso 812.9 #113 10:55PM
Switched all to LED! Saves electricity and sanity! - Boundin
425.0 #299 10:46PM
Got new ones today. The other ones were all tangled up...they were old anyways. The new ones are LEDs and they are SO bright!! - disneygirl19
121.9 #2694 10:55PM
You lost me at "while putting up lights"...that's my husbands job! - akpoppins
243.3 #1069 10:56PM
I throw them away... They are only a few buck$ at Wally World.... - Ms.Mouseketeer
1000.8 #88 11:00PM
Wait, your lights aren't in a tangled mess despite the fact you put them away nicely last year? - cesium55
529.7 #216 12:10AM
If thir not LED's, and I can't find the replacement bulbs, I chuck em and buy new better ones. - MagicalCaprice
480.6 #248 6:23AM
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