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How to be lazy at christmas - the tree lifter
Feb 27, 2022
Last reply: 4 years ago
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Having to struggle up a narrow loft ladder with boxes of stuff is nature's way of protecting us from overloading the loft.
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.
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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.
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?
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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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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!
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.
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So you have holes in your attic.
Yeah, builders think they'll be less damp by letting outside damp air in.
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