Christmas lights make me happy. If it was socially acceptable (and husband approved) I would without a doubt leave my Christmas lights up year round. They are just so happy and twinkly. Even now, I am writing and staring at my Christmas tree full of lights (but no ornaments yet), which has been up since November 1. Makes me smile.
Last year, our CLO (that’s Chief Light Officer AKA my hubby) discovered a new gadget to help my twinkly lights shine bright. And since the man has never met a gadget he didn’t have to try, he bought one. The Light Keeper Pro fixes Christmas lights.
You know how when one bulb goes out, the whole strand goes out? (Yeah, makes my hubby nutty too.) We all know that a broken light strand is typically the result of one burnt out bulb that prevents electricity from flowing through the rest of the strand. In theory, a “shunt’ is supposed to close off the electricity to that light to allow the rest of the strand to stay lit, but that doesn’t always happen.
This is not the look you want for your Christmas tree.
One can fix said problem by checking each bulb to see if it is burnt out, but who has time to comb through a strand of 30-50 lights looking for one dead bulb? At Christmas time – no one!
Light Keeper Pro
The Light Keeper Pro makes fixing your lights easy. With a few clicks, the Light Keeper Pro sends a current of electricity through the strands of lights to activate the backup shunt and relight your strand of lights. No more checking each bulb, just click until the lights come back on and replace the single bulb that doesn’t come back. Check out this instructional video to see the device in action.
My husband used the Light Keeper Pro on our lights last year with success. There were a few strands that just could not be fixed – hey they were almost 10 years old. But others came back to life easily and quickly.
LED Pro
This year we upgraded all of our Christmas lights inside and outside to LED, so we were excited to learn that this year there is an LED Keeper. We haven’t had to test it out yet, since our lights are new, but we are ready. So our house can look bright and beautiful all season long.
The Light Keeper Pro is available on Amazon for $16.71 and the LED Keeper for $18.99.
Twitter Party
Join me November 26 at 8 pm EST for a #WattsUp Twitter Party. We will be talking about Christmas decorating, keeping those lights in tip-top shape and giving away Light Keeper Pros. During the party we will giveaway 5 Light Keeper Pros and one grand prize of a $100 gift card, RSVP for the #WattsUp Twitter Party here.
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Love this! What a time saver. And I do keep lights on my Ficus trees year round. As you said, it just adds happiness year round!
Right after thanksgiving.
Just after Thanksgiving.
Day after Thanksgiving…Love every minute of it!
I usually put up my christmas decoratons the day after Thanksgiving and take them down the day after Christmas.
I actually did it today and I don’t like putting them up but enjoy them once it is done.
We typically have to wait for a weekend where my hubby doesn’t work Saturday night, but now that the kids are older we’ve been doing it earlier and earlier. This year we may actually do it December 1st!
beginning of December
thanksgiving weekend or the warmest day around then
Usually after Thanksgiving.
we put them up on the tree of course, and in the front windows of the house.
We don’t put any lights up until after the first Sunday of Advent.
The weekend after thanksgiving.
Usually the day after Thanksgiving
Last year, we put it up on the 1st week of December. This year, we’ve put it up after Halloween. 🙂
We’ll be putting them up and turning them on the day after Thanksgiving this year!
1st week of Dec.
We put our Christmas lights up after Thanksgiving on the first weekend the weather is nice
About 2 weeks before Christmas.
Hubby does
usually the first full weekend in December
We usually put our lights up the first weekend in December.
the week of thanksgiving we start putting up the inside of the house
Shortly after Thanksgiving. I just can’t bring myself to start sooner. Tradition, you know.
i put them up thanksgiving weekend
usually after Thanksgiving, but this year it may be a rush to the finish
the outside ones stay up all year on the porch. our tree goes up today – with missing strands.
We put up all our Christmas decorations and lights up the day after Thanksgiving.
beginning of December
We put our up right before Thanksgiving.
Week after thanksgiving
We put our lights up the weekend after Halloween. We like to enjoy them for as long as we can.
We put them up the weekend after thanksgiving
The outside lights go up after Thanksgiving. Inside I keep a tree up all year round and update it sometime after December 1st.
We put ours up the weekend after Thanksgiving normally.
We usually do the weekend after Thanksgiving
We put it up the day after Thanksgiving.
we are planning on putting them up when we buy some 🙂
I did it on Thanksgiving
My husband did ours on Dec 1st, and we could really use this, half of every string of lights wasn’t working and just when we thought we had fixed the problem and put them on the house they wasn’t working!! My husband had to change every bulb while up a ladder until we found the problem bulb
The goal is the weekend after Thanksgiving. The reality is a week before christmas. Thank you
I put my lights up in October before it gets too cold but I don’t turn them on until Thanksgiving Day.
The weekend right after Thanksgiving.
We do it after Thanksgiving!
We put them up the 2nd weekend in Decembe~~this weekend!!