Are you a Christmas fanatic? Each year as the holidays approach, you will tell yourself that this year you will check through all of your Christmas storage prior to making any new purchases. Then you will be out shopping and see a pre-season sale and cannot pass up the bargain.
It seems that each year the Christmas merchandise hits the shelves earlier. Last year on Labor Day weekend when I was searching through the school supply aisle, I noticed that the Christmas lights were displayed in the next aisle. It seems that the same day that the Halloween Candy goes on clearance is the same day that the Christmas candy goes on the shelves.
I am going to try to resists the sales this year until I go through the storage area check out. I know that we did donate the Christmas lights that we used last year, but I do not remember if I have bought more Led lights at the end of the season sales to lights Christmas decorations.
Last year I did not pass up the pre-season Christmas lights. They were a very good deal and I could not remember if the Led Christmas lights from the year before worked or not. Of course when I did take decorations out of storage I found that I had purchased new Christmas lights at a clearance sale at the end of the previous season.
My mom often reminds me that I need to check what I have prior to buying more because we are running out of storage space. Last year I was glad I had the extra Christmas lights because the old strand was burned out. We did not even try to locate why the strand did not light we simply used all the new ones.
I told my mom we should buy new Christmas light each year and donate the old ones to the school. Each year the school is looking for lights to use at dances, proms, and plays. By donating the lights, they will go to a good cause and we do not have to store them and then try to untangle them each year. It is so much easier to decorate with new Christmas light because they are not tangled and they all light.
Those outdoor lights for Christmas are more expensive so we put in more effort in packing them so that they do not tangle. This is not always easy because the weather is usually bitterly cold when we put the Christmas outdoor lights away. My mom just cannot tolerate having those string lights stay on the house once the holiday season is over.
She will never be one of the homeowners that leave the holiday lights on the house year round. She enjoys looking at light displays and we enjoy decorating our home and yard with hanging lights up to our Christmas Tree and around our house, but after News Years Day, she insists that the decorations go back into storage room.
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