How to be lazy at christmas - the tree lifter

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Commander Kinsey
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it's actually worth a look

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Animal

Having to struggle up a narrow loft ladder with boxes of stuff is nature's way of protecting us from overloading the loft.

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Colin Bignell

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

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Brian Gaff (Sofa

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.

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

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

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Mark Lloyd

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.

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I got lucky and the live went through the bulbs with the neutral as the return, but I could have changed the wires over in the plug if that hadn't worked.

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

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

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Harry Bloomfield Esq

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

Reply to
Commander Kinsey
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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.

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Mark Lloyd

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.

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Mark Lloyd

Genius!

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T

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.

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

That's like paying someone to shave your face.

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Commander Kinsey

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

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Reply to
Commander Kinsey

So you have holes in your attic.

Reply to
Commander Kinsey

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

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Commander Kinsey

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