How to be lazy at christmas - the tree lifter

Why do you never learn to put something descriptive on your messages before a huge long link to a vaguely described item? Brian

Because I keep forgetting you're in here. Sorry, it's a huge platform where you can assemble your christmas tree and surrounding artifacts, then when xmas is over, you operate the electrical mechanism which hoists it all into the attic through a large hole in the ceiling.

It had lights already on it, depriving you of the pleasure of decorating it each year.

You have a point, a lot of the fun is assembling things, and making it different to last year. As a kid I liked to repair old light strings. I fascinated my mother by finding which bulb had blown (they didn't have shorting links inside) in a string of 40 lights by running a voltage detector pen along the wire.

Putting lights on a tree is incredibly tedious, they never look right. Our tree is pre-lit, via a single LED lamp.

You are not entering the spirit of christmas. What's the point in decorations if you haven't put them there yourself?

At the beginning of the season, I look at pictures of last year's lights to make sure I don't do it that way.

I would do that too.

In the fall, I see ads for companies that put Christmas lights up for you. I intend to never use such a service. If I can't put my lights up I won't have any.

Genius!

So who cleans all of the dust etc that gets on the tree in the attic?

How hard can it be to put up lights?!

I've just fitted a string off 100 lights to a glass cabinet. I had the sense to measure things and work out how far they'd reach to get it all symmetrical.

That's like paying someone to shave your face.

Why would your attic generate dust? There's nothing happening up there.

Why would your attic generate dust? There's nothing happening up there.

Just because attics aren't perfect seals like a can of beans or unopened jar of pickles. Farming methods are a lot better than a half century ago but we still have dust blowing at times here in Nebraska. Won't a good wind produce pressure on one side with a vacuum on the other? I picture it a bit like going around an enclosed semi truck trailer.

So you have holes in your attic.

Aren't most/all attics vented?

Yeah, builders think they'll be less damp by letting outside damp air in.