Sooooo....The wife gets done early from work today and decides she would like to put up her Christmas tree,,, notice I said her tree.
Okayyyy so we get it down from the garage loft, it's a fold up job with built in lights. Quit going to multiple tree farms years ago!
Well anyway we put this thing together, three pieces snap, snap and snap,,, plug it in and only some of the lights work.
So I start looking for loose bulbs, pinched wires and blown fuses,,,,even got the Fluke meter on the job, everything checks out but no lights on the top, some mid section and all the bottom lights are lit. Start jiggling around the wire, some more come on but can't get them all to light. Good thus ends the the Christmas tree lighting.
Now to me with faulty wiring this is now nothing more than a fire hazard! Fire Dept. experience kicks in,,, not using this tree.! Nope no way,,,it will burn the house down....
So now the wife decides we need to go tree shopping! Oh **** here we go,, Lowe's, Home Depot, local big name dept store and the internet!
Well now after 5 hours,,,,5 hours we now came home with a new $300. artificial, LED lighted Christmas tree and it don't even have a foot pedal to turn it on and off! had to pay extra for a timer too!
Now when we paid $175. for this last one I thought it was tooo much, but then I figured in the no needed trips and fuel used to hit the live tree places so I guess it was a good deal?
So now with inflation $300. doesn't seem to bad but the thing was made in China.....
$300. Dollars for a Chinese Fake Blue Spruce Christmas tree!.....
Yeah well she gets to decorate it,,,,her tree!
Okayyyy so we get it down from the garage loft, it's a fold up job with built in lights. Quit going to multiple tree farms years ago!
Well anyway we put this thing together, three pieces snap, snap and snap,,, plug it in and only some of the lights work.
So I start looking for loose bulbs, pinched wires and blown fuses,,,,even got the Fluke meter on the job, everything checks out but no lights on the top, some mid section and all the bottom lights are lit. Start jiggling around the wire, some more come on but can't get them all to light. Good thus ends the the Christmas tree lighting. Now to me with faulty wiring this is now nothing more than a fire hazard! Fire Dept. experience kicks in,,, not using this tree.! Nope no way,,,it will burn the house down....
So now the wife decides we need to go tree shopping!
Oh **** here we go,, Lowe's, Home Depot, local big name dept store and the internet! Well now after 5 hours,,,,5 hours we now came home with a new $300. artificial, LED lighted Christmas tree and it don't even have a foot pedal to turn it on and off!
had to pay extra for a timer too! Now when we paid $175. for this last one I thought it was tooo much, but then I figured in the no needed trips and fuel used to hit the live tree places so I guess it was a good deal?
So now with inflation $300. doesn't seem to bad but the thing was made in China.....
$300. Dollars for a Chinese Fake Blue Spruce Christmas tree!..... Yeah well she gets to decorate it,,,,her tree!
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I have a similar story involving a similar tree, acquired at similar expense, used once, yes once, and then determined to be "too big" to use the next year! 
