Xmas light's and my wife are going to send me over the edge
 

So I finally got around to putting up our light's for the wife as she was on my ass to do it :boink: for about a month and I was to busy. Well I thought to myself how bad could this be so off I go to get the ladder. Got the ladder all set-up and turned around to see the wife hauling out the boxes of light's

14 BOXES OF FRIGING LIGHT'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1400 FRIGIN LIGHTS!!!!!:shocked!:

Then she went down to the storage shop and brought out a bunch of those lighted animal figure, a moose, an elk, 2 polar bears, 2 deers, and a horse and carrage. As well as 5 lighted stars, 2 small lighted tree's, 20' of those icicle strings and several 24" lighted candy canes.

So away I went, light around house, setting up animals and all the other crap. 6 hrs later I was finally done, SO I THOUGHT............

Tonight she come's home with a string of 200 white light's and asked me to put them around the gated arch we have at the end of the driveway. And now she is talking about running lights down both side's of the dog run, another 100' of light that the mother in law has in a box in our storage shop.

:crazyeye: OMFG when will it end.

I sure hope I am not the only one with a CRAZY XMAS LIGHT FREAK spouse like me.

I would politely let her know that the breaker panel cannot handle any more xmas lights :lol::lol:

If it was only that easy, when the people that built the house put in a dedicated power panel with a 30 amp breaker and exterior plug's. Then they made a point of telling her all about the damn panel when we were looking at the house.

OMG man. :lol:

This year I have a few strings of LED's up. Both me and my wife have just been run so ragged the last 2 months we were happy we got any up at all.

It is nice to see them up though.

I have these colour changing LED strings on the back fence which if I watch them as I'm moving I can see they are physically changing from blue to red to make that purple. As soon as I stop and look at them while still then the colours blend back to purple. Do other people notice this too? I guess it must be happening at 60Hz so must blink 30 times blue and 30 times red in the space of one second so I think that's kinda neat to be able to see that.

1400 lights. Ahhhh yikes. Well, look on the bright side: at least it's not -40 or something..

Sorry dude, I know how you feel. Sorry for the crappy pics, I had to run out and quickly snap these as the camera was dying.


This is my street.


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I live on whats called Candy Cane Lane. The lights continue around 2 blocks. Basically you get hassled for money to put the lights across the street, you get letters on your door if you dont participate, and you get to deal with people crawling down your street that will stop to take a picture instead of pulling over then look at you when you drive around them just to get to your driveway. They told me of this after I signed the papers on the house. I think next year were going to look into renting our frontage to a company for advertising, they can pay for all the dumb lights. I liked christmas lights till someone told me I had to do them.

Now I know where all those Gensets ended up after they were done at the olympics... Powering half of Prince George :wink::wink:

There's one around the corner where everything in his yard flashes. Everything, and theres lots of it. I would hate to live across from that house.

:lol:Sounds like your wife and I could be best friends:lol: I love decorating for X-mas too but at least I do most of it myself.

Ok now I dont feel to bad, I would hate to live on a street that dictates what if any lights you put up. That is one reason I live in the country.

And theres another thing we LIVE IN THE COUNTRY, who the hell is going to see all these light but us I mean really.

Don't get me wrong I like to do the lights and stuff at christmas time for my wife, she love's it so but this year was bad timing as I have been so freakin busy that I have only managed 3 days off in 8 weeks and most nights I dont get into the house until 7 or 8 pm.

But the wife is happy.:frusty:

Around here we have a tree, that's it. BBAAAHHHHHH HUMBUG!

I use the excuse that lights are too expensive to run, she points out the amount of electricity the tanks use. I run out of logical arguments and head to the shop until it blows over.

and thats what realy matters isn't it. Mine is the opposit.. she just likes a bit of lights, its me that likes lots of lights. I have 8 strings this year and it looks like nothing is there. plus a couple deer, snowmen ect..

I will buy more next years I guess :mrgreen:

Steve

This year I put up a string of 50 lights and it covers the entire front of my tiny place with some extra. Livin' small has it's benefits!

I leave my porch light on all December....

I see who wears the pants in your family :lol:

We just put a couple of bows up and left it at that. Our lighting budget is consumed by our fish tanks :)

I have to tell my wife the tank is off limits for hanging crap off of. I do have a string of lights wrapping around a pillar by the tank that I let her plug into my tank's dj strip since there were no plugs in sight. I get a littl nervous about her flipping that thing on and off lol.

This is what my wife does every Christmas. The village is about 8' wide and 4' high, and has 26 electrical plug-ins. It even has a train that runs under the mountain, a ski gondola that goes back and forth, ice skaters that go around and around, and some hobos warming themselves by a fire. When it's lit up at night it really is quite spectacular.
She puts hours and hours into setting it up. My contribution is getting the boxes down for her and making Rum & Egg Nogs. :mrgreen:

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I don't do any decoration at all in my house. Not even put up Xmas tree, how sad!!!!

In the summer I'm going to install something along these lines:
http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm...olesalers.html

RGB LED mounted on some kind of tape. It's small enough to be mounted on or under gutters and around moldings while remaining virtually undetectable. The IP-65 rating is good enough for outdoor conditions and they should last as long as the house if properly installed and maintained. Connect them up to the right controller and you'll have the ability to change color and then some. One time install and you'll never have to deal with the hassle of installing and removing xmas lights again. Plus not just for xmas, parties, special events, Halloween, the list goes on.

I mounted clear ropelight, with multi colored leds under the evestroughs on my house 2 years ago and they are workin' fine.
I'm looking at installing on the garage and fences next summer.

My wife would love to have this as well.

I kinda like those mini villages. That's a great display. I'd love to do something like that if time allowed AND if there was a way of it not being completely destroyed by a pillaging gigantic two year old on a rampage.

HEHE, Sorry Greg, can't help laughing. I feel for ya!

I myself don't do lights, I just say no. Got the tree, and the wife decorates the house, but I say why waste power.

I told mine we have a nice blue christmas light up all year long and that was enough.:smile:
That and we don't have any plugs outside so would have to run a cord out the window.

You know what they say "Happy wife Happy life" :razz:

Yep that sounds about right, not because I don't like lights, I'm just way to lazy to hang any up :redface:

Be glad you're not this guy

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Don't hurt yourself LYAO smart guy :razz: and with the shop being here we can write off a major amount of our power bill so the wife figure GO BIG OR GO HOME with the light i guess.

I can just imagine your little dude rearranging everything with the sword he was poking and hitting you with. :lol:

This dude is nuts, I thought I read some where he starts his setting up right after Halloween.

Looks like he's doing some sort of fundraiser so good on him. I've seen some tv shows showing people with more advanced controllers then we have on our tanks and have separate power panels for it. Something like $600 for there power bill for dec. With music matched lights. Nuts.

Actually he starts before Halloween, I pass this house on my way home most of the time.

Epcor had to install a separate transformer to power the lights. Also looked up how much his power bill was around and this is what I found:

"Jerry says he'll spend about 1,000 hours lighting up the night as a tribute to his late mother, Maisie Dolynchuk, and to raise some much needed donations for the Edmonton Food Bank. He adds that his power bill, last year, was around $1,000/month. But, since switching most of his bulbs to LEDs, it's now hovering around the $300/month mark."

Here's a link to his website and he raises money for the food bank. I know it's called Maisie's house but I've always called it the crazy Christmas house :lol:
http://www.maisieschristmashouse.com/

http://www.edmontonsfoodbank.com/mai...ristmas-house/