To cut the fucking tree lights off the fucking tree?

[KindleAndCake]

I'm in a right old tangled mess and I just want to cut the fuckers off.

I can see the appeal of those trees with the lights built in

This is why I changed to a pre lit artificial tree this year

Whilst I can see the appeal you will regret it...

I'm going prelit next year

If it's a false tree..leave them on ??

I threw mine away. When I put them on the tree I misjudged the length and ended up with too much left over so I went up over as well as down over. Managed to get them off the tree ok but they were tangled to buggery. I tried for 40 minutes to unknot them and then gave it up as a bad job. Bought some new ones online for £2.99 on sale.
Zero regrets.

I got a huge black bin bag. Took the fairy off the tree, unplugged lights, put bag over the tree. Pulled the ties tight and put it in an old trunk. See what it is like in December.

Last year I was ill.
My very Ddad took all the festive stuff down and put them in the boxes carefully.
He then took the lights off the prelit tree.
It took him four hours and a pair of pliers, he didn't know about prelit.
New tree this year, last year's was critically injured

Every year I swear this will be the last year with the big tree and millions of lights now that DC are older although they still want them. had a prelit one a few years back but it made such a terrible humming noise - any recommendations for a quiet one for next year?

Do it. I took the scissors to the skinny tinsel i had that had somehow got all tangled and tightened. Life's too short....

A word of warning about pre lit trees...we had one, we loved it. Then last year the lights on it broke. Well the lights had to be cut off as they were reaaaaally wound tight and the tree looked shit after. Even with nice new lights it didn’t look the same.

I feel your pain! But last year I invested in a really long set and wound them round an empty Pringles tube, they were a doddle to put on and hopefully take off!

Tangled?
Swap films and Let It Go op!!

@Doggybiccys I’ve had two pre-lit trees both have been totally silent!

Was so tempted to do this. In the end we pulled the tree into the middle of the room and two of us paraded round and round in circles, one untangling, one winding. It was ridiculous, but effective.

Now getting the tree out of the base was another layer of comedy.

Get a net one for next year. You literally just lift them off. They're just a ring that sits on the top and the lights hang down in strings.

On my prelit tree a few years ago, a bulb went meaning they all stopped working and I meticulously went through the whole lot trying to work out which one it was- didn't work with any of the 80 bulbs I tried...

Rather than throw the tree out ( good make and was unite expensive) I painstakingly cut the lights off which took about two hours and now use the tree with a couple of sets of lights I bought for £5. I always wind Christmas tree lights round a small piece of wood and this stops the frustration of trying to untangle them when next years tree goes up.

I’m the inking of chopping the tree (real tree) into bits to try and ease the 500 lights off. We have an artificial one too which is prelit. It doesn’t make any noise at all and is soooooo east in comparison.

That's what I did! I even put them on carefully making sure I worked Down the tree going clockwise and going around other branches, so it should have just been a matter of finding the end walking round anticlockwise to get them off. Some how they were all up and done the tree wound round themselves and going all ways!

@Doggybiccys

Every year I swear this will be the last year with the big tree and millions of lights now that DC are older although they still want them. had a prelit one a few years back but it made such a terrible humming noise - any recommendations for a quiet one for next year?

A friend of mine had a 'humming' set of lights that she bought this year - apparently google says it means that the transformer is on its way out/faulty

@BashfulClam - don’t suppose you can remember where u got it / brand?

@CottonHeadedNinyMuggins - thanks for the tip.

We got a pretty lit tree this year and it works with Alexa. It’s a revelation!

@Doggybiccys the current one is John Lewis and the previous one was from Dobbies

@BashfulClam - cheers! Will take a note of this for next year as there is no way I’m putting up my current tree again - it takes about 4 hours to add the branches, they cut you to bits and then you’ve still got to decorate. Cannot be arsed anymore.

My pre-lit tree is amazing. It looks brilliant (boom boom) and was only £50 from Tesco a few years ago. I got it on Christmas Eve after searching and searching for one (and being prepared to pay quite a lot) but in the end I didn't needs too.

It takes approx 1 minute from box to being ready and about the same to put away.