Number of lights per foot of tree....

[NotanOtter]

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...

i've put 400 on my 7ft tree. it doesn't look like 400 lights though!!

I'm not sure how many lights there are on our Christmas tree, But it is a 6 foot tree and ther are not 600 lights on it.

had to add another 40

I actually spend all my time in the car with dp commenting on how few/many lights are on trees

I just googled this and found that you should have 30 lights per foot of tree

which seems faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more reasonable

well i googled and had page after page saying 100/foot!

maybe it varies depending on where i the eu you are

Yes yes I just googled again and you are right

Still baffled by this though.

well we have way over 1000 on ours now, but I would qualify that by saying that a lot of them are the little gloworm ones - I reckon I have ~1500 of those, plus ~200 'berry' /LED ones and ~50 decorative ones. And that's not because MN says so - I have always done it that way [sticks tongue out]