Re: pre lit xmas tree

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

We just put our tree up and we have lights out in two sections. It is an old Bethelehem Light tree. It is a slim tree and is the perfect height and looks so real. We will put some store bought lights on it for this season, but will be out shopping for another one. I hate losing something I like. I would keep the tree itself, but absolutely hate to string lights every year.

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

I posted yesterday elsewhere on this board that I downsized this year to a 6' tree. It is also slim so it really looks small compared to my 7'5" big tree that I bought 2 years ago. I love it though because it is very lightweight. I was able to decorate the entire thing and literally pick it up and put it in the corner where I wanted it. My bigger tree is so big and so cumbersome, I would have had to carry each section up the steps and then I just cannot move it into place because it's so heavy, it digs into the floor making it nearly impossible to budge. The tree I put up this year I bought from Walmart and I didn't pay a lot for it at all. It was a black Friday special. But I like it. The tree I had up last year I bought from Home Depot. It's pretty but just too cumbersome. My favorite is still my unlit that I bought 25 years ago from Sears. That tree still looks as good now as it did when we bought it. I just got tired of doing the lights every year.

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

@Allegheny wrote:
We just put our tree up and we have lights out in two sections. It is an old Bethelehem Light tree. It is a slim tree and is the perfect height and looks so real. We will put some store bought lights on it for this season, but will be out shopping for another one. I hate losing something I like. I would keep the tree itself, but absolutely hate to string lights every year.

We fixed our lights. Yesterday, came across a product in Home Depot called Light Keeper Pro.

Went grocery shopping today for about 2 hours, and during that time DH watched the on line product videos and used it to get the lights all working.

I honestly didn't think this gadget was going to work, but it did.

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

HI, daisey10, I had a problem with the QVC Christmas in July TSV two or three years ago, with part of the tree not lighting up (I just gave up and strung lights on that section). After two years of not liking the bulky look of the extra lights, and having a weird retro wish for a white tree, I purchased another tree last year through Amazon.com, but cannot remember the company name. I just went into the garage to check and the name isn't no the box.

This tree is 6', lightweight, white and cute...and wouldn't you know, one section wouldn't light. But the co. sent another middle section that did light, so they made it right within a day or two. I've always been for traditional looking trees, but am enjoying this blast from the past 60s-looking tree, and it looks better with my WDW monorail, hotel, and the tiny dolls I use to make "lines" in front of the monorails. Very Florida. I will have to give it away and go back to green trees if I move back North.