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Number of lights per foot of tree....

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 21:57

now i like my tree LIT so i googled this and horror it seems to say 100 light per foot??

do people agree with this terribly anal calculation ?

am stressing that i will not have enough...

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JingleBellaAllTheWay · 18/12/2008 21:59

Otter - go get yourself a gin, girl. You need to chill out and worry about other things, like decorations per square metre

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:01

I wish i was not this person I REALLY do!

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 18/12/2008 22:02

You see, I'm with you - if there's not enough lights on a tree, it may as well not have any at all.

The house across the road from us has a lovely tree in their window - tall, wide, LOADS of lights. It looks fantastic in the dark - really Victorian, little match-girl type of thing.

retiredgoth2 · 18/12/2008 22:02

....put 100 light string on our 5 foot tree.

I am now trying to convince the urchins of the benefits of minimalism....

('just think how much space there is between stars in space, boys! Well, our tree is just like that! Isn't that amazing?')

...they are not buying it.

ClausImWorthIt · 18/12/2008 22:03

We have a an 8 ft tree and I have a string with 200 lights on it.

It's perfect.

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:07

thankyou all

curley haired - how many lights do you think you have

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starbear · 18/12/2008 22:08

We have a five foot tree with 160 dim lights on it. I hate them of course DH got them I had to let him control something over Christmas. I HATE them. WHAT is wrong with 50 bright lights I'm sure it does a better job. The whole thing got into a tangle before we even started. Then I broke the casing for the tranformer

tassisssss · 18/12/2008 22:10

I think 450 minimum on a 6.5 foot tree, but I like a lot of lights!

snoopdog · 18/12/2008 22:10

3 ft tree, 50 lights, looking good,

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:11

starbear so sorry but i lol at your post!! it sounded such a catastrophe!! I am sure it looks lovely

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sb6699 · 18/12/2008 22:12

I've got 200 lights on my 6ft tree and its def enough. It's not particularly wide though- think you might need more if you buy a real tree which are usually wider than artificial ones.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 18/12/2008 22:13

NotanOtter, there's quite a difference between my IDEAL amount of lights, and my ACTUAL amount of lights, as described in an equation thus:

5ft tree + 100 lights = just not good enough

ByThePowerOfBaileys · 18/12/2008 22:16

300 lights 8ft tree looking gorgeous and I love a well light tree. wouldn't want more - well maybe a few but not another 500!!

starbear · 18/12/2008 22:17

NotanOtter, Don't worry. I'm going to lose the lights next year and get what I want. DH won't even notice. Gutted about the money already spent though

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:17

Retired goth I am liking your style

dp been sent down to cellar......he may or may not return...

sorry - he may or may not return with glad tidings!

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 18/12/2008 22:20

If you have loads of lights, do you need a really bushy tree for the lights to actually rest on? The branches on our artificial tree just seem a bit wide apart, and despite me bending the individual branch-let things up and down, I reckon extra lights would look stupid dangling down in between rows of branches.

choccyp1g · 18/12/2008 22:20

I've just put 100 on a 6 ft tree, and tbh it doesn't look enough. I think another 100 should about do it.. but are there any rules about mixing coloured and white lights ? Plus, both sets have these crazy twinkiling programs, so do you think I should try to synchronise the twinkles? Or keep one set on steady, and the other going bonkers ?

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:25

i only like them still

anal people do not like flickerers

they need uniformity

and CALM..................

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 18/12/2008 22:33

choccyp1g: please tell me they don't play music in a very annoying electronic beepy type of way??????

choccyp1g · 18/12/2008 22:37

Curly, no they are not that bad, they just have a little control box so you can change between steady (my favourite) , or flickering, flashing, dimming, increasing, or combination of all of them (DS favourite of course). [fhmmn]

choccyp1g · 18/12/2008 22:38

ofgs, now I find I can't even spell sceptical.

retiredgoth2 · 18/12/2008 22:38

...the lights that I used do indeed flicker. Chase, too...

And worse.

....an urchin pressed the small control box, causing the emission, bontempi style, of 'Frosty the Snowman'.

Not for fucking long it didn't.

SnowMuchToBits · 18/12/2008 22:39

Well, you will all be shocked by me then! I have a 5 ft tree - and 24 lights! Now these are not teeny-weeny fairy lights, they are old-fashioned olive cone lights and give out quite a lot of light each. They are very old (were my parents' lights).

And before anyone else mentions it, yes, I'm sure they are so old they probably don't live up to modern health and safety standards, but ds (aged 8) is very sensible and knows not to touch them, and I never ever leave them unattended.

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:40

dp has sternly returned from the cellar

he has found 2 sets of 100 each and i have 100 others

i informed him this meant we could have a 3 foot tree

he is singularly unimpressed!

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NotanOtter · 18/12/2008 22:40

ooh snowbaby are they coloured?

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