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

The Grizz · #1 12-15-2010, 05:31 AM

So I finally got around to putting up our light's for the wife as she was on my ass to do it

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!!!!!

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.

OMFG when will it end.

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

cwatkins · #2 12-15-2010, 05:39 AM

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

The Grizz · #3 12-15-2010, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by cwatkins

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

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.

Delphinus · #4 12-15-2010, 05:50 AM

OMG man.

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..

zum14 · #5 12-15-2010, 05:56 AM

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.

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.

cwatkins · #6 12-15-2010, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by zum14

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.

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

zum14 · #7 12-15-2010, 06:53 AM

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.

noirsphynx · #8 12-15-2010, 02:18 PM

Sounds like your wife and I could be best friends

I love decorating for X-mas too but at least I do most of it myself.

The Grizz · #9 12-15-2010, 02:39 PM

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.

hillbillyreefer · #10 12-15-2010, 02:46 PM

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.