I sometimes recommend products on this blog, but only ones that I would use myself. A few years ago, I wrote an article about a tool that makes it easy to hang Christmas tree lights. And it does. Even on tall trees!
We've had a lot of snow in Montana already this year, but it melted due to unseasonably warm temperatures over the past week or so. Sunday was the perfect day to put up our outside holiday lights. Before we began, I got out our trusty tool.
We decided to string lights on a tall pine tree and our Canada Red Cherry tree, which is now much taller than when I wrote about it, here. We had no need for a ladder, no tense moments, and no feelings of frustration throughout the process. Lickety-split, my husband and I had both trees decorated.We don't put lights on the roof of our house, but this tool would work well for that too.
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| Taller than our garage when fully extended, this pole has a very long reach! |
It is easier to put lights on a tree when two people participate; it helps a lot to have a second person managing the unstrung portion of the lights. There is a little bit of a learning curve to using the light pole, but it is quite easy to get the hang of it. My husband and I would have struggled a lot more if we had decorated the trees without this tool. It is practically a magic wand! We will never decorate another tall tree without it.
One more good thing. When it's time to take the lights down, this tool makes that an easy task as well.
So, where can you get this magic wand? I got mine from Amazon. Click the link to go directly to the Amazon website, where you can order one of your own.
I do get a tiny bit of compensation if you buy from Amazon after clicking the link, but that doesn't increase your purchase price at all. And I promise that is not the reason I'm telling you about this tool.
The mission of this website is to pass along helpful ways to make the most of life. This is definitely one of those.
Happy decorating!
Do you decorate your home with outside lights? When do you put them up?
Happy decorating!
Do you decorate your home with outside lights? When do you put them up?
I think your previous post about this gem of a tool was the first one I ever read! Sadly, it looks as if Amazon doesn't ship it to Canada so my poor children are going to have to lean out precariously from the ladder yet again this Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you came across that post, if that is how we met! Sorry you can't access Amazon from my site. Have you discovered Amazon.ca? You might find one of these there! I bet your kids would love it ;)
DeleteNo outside decorations here. And the inside decorations won't be a happening thing until the second week of December. At least.
ReplyDeleteWe don't usually put ours up too early either, although the past few years I have been motivated to have the house all done before my kids have come home from college.
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