That's been me and my Christmas lights this year!!!
First my really pretty iridescent crystal light strand I put up around the living room wont work. At all. I've changed the fuses and checked almost every single bulb (which requires each crystal to be unscrewed individually) and no luck. So far I've hit half the stores in town to try to replace them with no luck. Home Depot had the closest match, but they were colored and a shorter strand.
Then the strand of chili pepper lights my mom's friend gave me went out. I had tested them so I knew I had to replace 2 bulbs on it (they were broken inside the Chiles) so I did that. No luck. So I changed the fuse on those lights. Still no luck. So I get the bright idea to go buy a regular strand of 35 white mini lights and take the chilies off the strand and put them on the new one. Simple right?
Well I went to 4 stores before I found a strand of just 35 (not 20 or 50!) lights. So I just finished changing all the chilies. And well...the new strand is much shorter than the one they came on! Plus it's not a double ended one so it won't hook to my Chile bunch. Did I mention I've had a cold for a week now?
It was perfect before! The Chile bunch hangs next to my cabinet, the Chile strand runs under the cabinets and up the opposite side, where it hooked to a strand of lights that ran across the kitchen and just looked sooo neat! I've given up for tonight. I'm just getting nowhere with it all! Don't know if I want to laugh or just have a piece of chocolate at this point!
First my really pretty iridescent crystal light strand I put up around the living room wont work. At all. I've changed the fuses and checked almost every single bulb (which requires each crystal to be unscrewed individually) and no luck. So far I've hit half the stores in town to try to replace them with no luck. Home Depot had the closest match, but they were colored and a shorter strand.
Then the strand of chili pepper lights my mom's friend gave me went out. I had tested them so I knew I had to replace 2 bulbs on it (they were broken inside the Chiles) so I did that. No luck. So I changed the fuse on those lights. Still no luck. So I get the bright idea to go buy a regular strand of 35 white mini lights and take the chilies off the strand and put them on the new one. Simple right?
Well I went to 4 stores before I found a strand of just 35 (not 20 or 50!) lights. So I just finished changing all the chilies. And well...the new strand is much shorter than the one they came on! Plus it's not a double ended one so it won't hook to my Chile bunch. Did I mention I've had a cold for a week now?
It was perfect before! The Chile bunch hangs next to my cabinet, the Chile strand runs under the cabinets and up the opposite side, where it hooked to a strand of lights that ran across the kitchen and just looked sooo neat! I've given up for tonight. I'm just getting nowhere with it all! Don't know if I want to laugh or just have a piece of chocolate at this point!