how do you get the lights evenly on the tree?

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

I am sitting here looking at our tree and its shambolic. There are spaces with no lights and bits with too many.

How do you all do it? I took my time and really tried this year and still its uneven.

I don't! DH does it with a bit of help from DD2.

Another squinter here

I kind of swag the lights from side to side so that they almost meet at the back but I don't have to get stuck go behind it.

I used to spend hours getting it all to look perfect, nowadays the children come along and blitz it!

We've decided not to put on tinsel this year and I could instantly see huge gaps in the lighting. Think we will have to get some more lights...

DH& I discuss disagree every year when doing the lights. We did them last night & he moaned nicely & threatened to get a fake pre-lit one for next year rather than the lovely real one we have, althoughI would agree getting more & more expensive.

We turn lights on first to make sure working (!) & then leave on whilst we put on tree - we have 2 sets of 400 micro white lights on it & it looks gorgeous. We tend to start at top & go round & do the same with the second set & it looks pretty even - tend to stand back & squint too.

We have 512 lights. There are no gaps there's barely any tree visible between the lights

A tip. Make sure your lights are working BEFORE you put them on the tree. A fellow mumsnetter put hers on (loads of them) the tree only to find they didn't work!

Squint!

I've not put my tree up yet, and I think I have had an inspiration. It's a fake tree that you build from the bottom up; would it work to put the lights in between each layer of tree, as I am building it up?

Another squinter!! I was told if you squint your eyes and you should see the shape of a Christmas Tree

Big string of lights and a teeny-tiny twig tree (approx one metre tall).