Now you can say that I’m frugal, money conscience, or down right cheap… but when it comes to Christmas lights I might just have to prove you wrong.
Tonight was the night that had planned on putting up the Christmas lights. This was supposed to be about the easiest thing to do in the world. Why you ask? Well, I took down last years lights so carefully, plugged them into each other and then packed them into plastic totes with paper in between the layers. So you could pretty much say that I ‘Rocked it’ and I shouldn’t have any problems when I needed them again. Well it was the furthest from anything successful and pretty much a nightmare!! When I took out the first one it lit and I thought to myself – yup I did a really good job putting these lights away last year and to be honest I was feeling just a little too smug even for myself. Then I took out the second one and guess what? It didn’t work. No worries yet, maybe it was just a dumb one that probably didn’t work last year anyway. Then I took out the third one and it also didn’t work. Now it’s not a fun game anymore. What went wrong? I thought if maybe I set them aside and then tried them later at the end they would probably work. I mean I did such a good job putting them away right? Well that wasn’t the case. When I came back to them, I found myself holding my breath while I was plugging them in and then … they still didn’t work 🙁 So after spending most of my night trying to find just enough to try to cover the one side of the yards fence, I only got about half way around the fence with lights that worked. I was talking about this problem at work and someone said that they just take their lights and kind of throw them in a pile and they always work next year. Well, good for her right? And if I was my sister I would spend the time to check them out and see if it’s a fuse or a bad light or something. But guess what I’m going to do? I’m going to town to buy all new ones! Do you think they’ll be on sale?