willshak wrote:
On 11/28/2004 1:51 PM US(ET), Michael Black took fingers to keys, and
typed the following:

Don Klipstein ) writes:


3. Get LED strings. Fair sources are Target and Boscovs, last year
I saw good choices in the Brookstone online catalog. I saw a "basic"
model at Walgreens, but this year none at CVS, Rite Aid nor Eckerd.



Do they not make old style Christmas lights where there are sockets
to screw in bulbs? You can still get bulbs for them.

I wouldn't know, since we're still using Christmas lights from
at least forty years ago, though they did replace an older set
that had the bulbs in series.

It sounds like the issue isn't that the bulbs are in series, that's
merely
a slow process to find the dead bulb, but that they are no longer
socketed.

That would make them far more throwaway than the old style Christmas
lights. On the other hand, from the flyers I see one can get them pretty
cheap, so maybe nowadays people toss out the Christmas tree with the
lights
still on it.

Toss out the Christmas tree? I paid $60 for it a few years ago and it's
still going strong.
It's a pain to decorate and undecorate it every year, so I'm going to
build a cantilevered closet addition in the corner of the LR where it is
usually displayed, and when Christmas is done, just slide the decorated
tree into the closet, close the door, and it's all ready for next year.
I may put wheels on it, or some kind of extension track like on a slide
away keyboard tray to make it even easier. :-)

Why not just leave it up year round? A woman at work kept a tree up all
year, but changed the decorations to match the holidays/seasons. But
that would defeat the purpose of your idea, no matter how cute it was.

LOL

-Jane