Well, my Christmas tree is up and decorated...for the second time this season. I spent Thanksgiving night putting 12 strands of lights on the tree (oh how I hate that job!) After that feat was accomplished, I decorated the tree, admired it for a while, and then went to bed. The next night when I turned on the lights, the top part of the tree lit up and the bottom part of the tree lit up but I had a big chunk in the middle with no lights. I've been dreading what it would take to fix it. Today I had some time so I started un-decorating the middle portion of the tree, taking off the lights strand by strand, finding what the problem was, and then re-decorating the tree. Hopefully that will do for the next 4 weeks.
Here is the end result:
The same thing happened last year...the lights went out, un-decorating and re-decorating the tree. The year before, I thought it would be a good idea to put framed pictures in the tree...big/heavy frames. About a week after I decorated the tree, the entire thing tipped over in the middle of the night and scared me to death. Yep, I had to re-decorate the tree that year too. then there was Christmas 1985 when baby Jeffrey tipped the tree...not on himself, thankfully...and yes, I had to re-decorate the tree. Does anyone have this problem besides me?
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We had a tipper one year when I lived with roommates - it tipped in the middle of the night, so we used some string and tied it to the front door to hold it up until we could figure out how to fix it. It all started when I tried to use a kitchen knife to even off the bottom so it would stand up straight . . .
Your tree looks beautiful! It's a JOB to decorate a tree isn't it? What a pain to have to undecorate, and then RE decorate it. It sure looks good now though.
We've never had to undecorate a tree, or had one tip over. . . but I am saying that VERY softly, so I don't jinx this year's tree.
Oh, your teee is beautiful Lauri!! I need more lights for mine too. We usually do a prelit tree, so I could only scrounge up about 5 strands. Never had to take our tree apart and redo it....thankfully!!!!
That is funny!!! Your trees must sense how much you "love" decorating it and causes things to happen to keep you doing it!
Beautiful tree. We have had some lightening issues this year too...with some outside decorations. Very frustrating. I finally just decided to buy a couple of new strands of lights, but found that neither Target or Walmart sell just plain green Christmas lights. Somehow, I just don't think a couple of decorative, light-up palm trees would look that good with mult-colored fronds. Tis the season for frustration!
If re-decorating the tree makes it look that gorgeous then I had better give it a try! Every year I just decorate once but it takes me days and days. We started last Saturday and we might finish tomorrow (9 days later). We have a party here next Monday night so I have to stop decorating and start cooking. 'Tis the Season!
I have never had that happen to me.... yet! But your tree looks BEAUTIFUL!
When we first moved into our house, ours fell over in the middle of the night. We went to one of those cut-your-own farms and the tree got sap all over our couch. We've never been able to figure out how to get it out.
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