Christmas tree and lights

[vintageteddy96]

Here is my Christmas tree with vintage Noma Christmas lights with cloth covered cords and reproduction Noma bubble lights. Also you get a sneak peek of my 70's living room.

 

[phillymatt53]

Very nice!

When I put my (fake) 7 foot tree up, I also have a string of bubble lights on it.
It has 550 mini colored bulbs already on it.
And I put a set of remote controlled trains underneath, and some Hess Trucks, etc.
The tree sits on a vintage 1950's rotating stand that has a music box in it.
As the tree rotates in one direction, I set the trains to rotate in the opposite direction.
And since it revolves, its got to be decorated completely around, and It takes all afternoon to put the damn thing up, but visitors adore it.

 

[vintageteddy96]

Very nice!

When I put my (fake) 7 foot tree up, I also have a string of bubble lights on it.
It has 550 mini colored bulbs already on it.
And I put a set of remote controlled trains underneath, and some Hess Trucks, etc.
The tree sits on a vintage 1950's rotating stand that has a music box in it.
As the tree rotates in one direction, I set the trains to rotate in the opposite direction.
And since it revolves, its got to be decorated completely around, and It takes all afternoon to put the damn thing up, but visitors adore it.

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It looks great! I have a train set, maybe I'll put it out next year.

 

[vacerator]

Haven't gotten our tree up yet. Just the one on the front porch. It was warmer Saturday and snowed overnight, so I thought it was the best day to have hubby lug it up from the basement for me. It has all white incandescent lights. I have large unbreakable ornaments on it in gold, green and red. Green tinsel. LED color changing star. My knee is still in healing from surgery and I still get tired faster. Hubby's been making Italian wedding soup, and pasta fagioli for our family party next Saturday. Also baking some canoli cookies, etc. I usually set up the tree in the living room by the 10th, then bring each of the four or five totes of decorations up one at a time. Nativity set first. Lots of glass ornaments. A few Waterford crystal ones. Tree was new a few years ago. Not a Balsam Hill, but nearly as nice. Has color change LEd's. Brightness, and colors from all white, or combination and flickering, fading, steady on adjust.
I prefer blue and or white outdoor lights.

 

[foraloysius]

About half the people in my apartment building have Christmas lights on the balcony.

 

[phillymatt53]

About half the people in my apartment building have Christmas lights on the balcony.

Now if I lived in one of those apartments, I'd have multicolored lights on the balcony.
All those boring white lights....... bore me.
And besides, I like to show that I'm me. not one to "fit in", I like my individuality.
My outdoor christmas lighting had always been multicolored, while others on my
street do the boring white light thing.
Besides.... it doesn't show well, but my tree has muticolored lighting too.
One could say that I'm a "multicolored kind of guy".

 

[foraloysius]

There are coloured lights on the third floor. In the picture they are the whitest lights. It puzzles me why they look so white in the picture. At the end of the first floor there are red lights.

 

[vacerator]

To each their own tastes the north star is white, and the night sky dark blue on a clear night.

 

[phillymatt53]

There are coloured lights on the third floor. In the picture they are the whitest lights. It puzzles me why they look so white in the picture. At the end of the first floor there are red lights.

Well, it could be my monitor, but it's hard to tell the actual colors, except for one or maybe two balconies.
Nevertheless, I prefer some color.

 

[phillymatt53]

To each their own tastes the north star is white, and the night sky dark blue on a clear night.

And Matty's house shines bright with all the colors of a beautiful rainbow.

 

[ea56]

We put our tree up this weekend. It’s a two day job. Saturday we assembled and fluffed out our 18 year old artificial tree and strung the lights on it. Then on Sunday we hung all the ornaments and set out the Nativity Scene. With 44 years of Christmas’s together we’ve amassed a whole lotta ornaments. And I have some from my childhood, the oldest two being from the first Christmas tree I can remember in 1954 when I was almost 4 years old.

Since we have such a variety of ornaments we use clear mini lights so as to not distract from the many different ornaments. Last year one of the strings went dark a week after the tree was decorated and there was NO way we were gonna be able to replace them on a fully decked out tree and I couldn’t find the bad bulb. So this year we got all new lights.

Eddie

 

[thatwasherguy]

Here is my Christmas tree with vintage Noma Christmas lights with cloth covered cords and reproduction Noma bubble lights. Also you get a sneak peek of my 70's living room.View attachment 321578View attachment 321579View attachment 321580View attachment 321581View attachment 321582View attachment 321583

Oh man! I cannot put into words how jealous I am of that living room. The only thing missing is a disco ball.
Thatwasherguy.

 

[foraloysius]

We put our tree up this weekend. It’s a two day job. Saturday we assembled and fluffed out our 18 year old artificial tree. Then on Sunday we hung all the ornaments and set out the Nativity Scene. With 44 years of Christmas’s together we’ve amassed a whole lotta ornaments. And I have some from my childhood, the oldest two being from the first Christmas tree I can remember in 1954 when I was almost 4 years old.

Since we have such a variety of ornaments we use clear mini lights so as to not distract from the many different ornaments. Last year one of the strings went dark a week after the tree was decorated and there was NO way we were gonna be able to replace them on a fully decked out tree and I couldn’t find the bad bulb. So this year we got all new lights.

Eddie

Very stylish Eddie!

 

[vacerator]

Yes Eddie, classy tree too!

 

[petek]

Our street and neighborhood I would say 60 to 70% of houses have some Xmas lights out. I tend to agree about the all white lights. The 3rd 4th and 5th houses in a row next to ours all have white lights and to be honest a vintage AOK used car parking lot looks about the same. Don't hate me, you do you,, it's strictly my opinion lol

 

[ea56]

There’s a somewhat funny story about how we came to have our current artificial tree. When we moved here in 1994 we knew that we’d want to place the tree in front of the window and the electric baseboard heater is right under that window. In he past we’d always had either a cut tree or a live one. But they would had posed a fire hazard that close to the heater. So we went to Walmart and bought a nice 7” artificial tree.

Since we have so many nice ornaments, many on the heavy side, and since they couldn’t be seen from the side that faced the window we used to concentrate most of the nicer ornaments in the front and on the side. Well, on Pearl Harbor Day of 2008 (we always put the tree up in 12-7) we had only about a doz. ornaments left to put on the tree when we heard a loud crack and then the tree started to fall towards us. David and I quickly managed to catch it and let it softly land on the carpet. Even so we lost about 8 of the glass ornaments. The plastic stand that came with the tree had broken from the years of stress due to weight being primarily on the front of the tree.

It was already about 5 pm and dark. We drove to Lowe’s that’s a mile away hoping to buy a new stand. Well there were no stands left. We had a $25 Lowes Gift card that our neighbor Barbara had given us that July when we were legally married one day before our 27th anniversary. As luck would have it there was one 7” artificial tree left, marked down to $30, so with our $25 gift card and tax it only cost us another $8.

We then had to go home, carefully remove all the ornaments and lights from the old tree and then decorate the new tree. We didn’t finish until after 11:30 pm. Wow, what an exhausting Pearl Harbor Day that was!

Every since that experience we have been VERY careful to distribute the weight of the ornaments EVENLY over the entire tree top to bottom and every side to prevent a redux of that terrible tree trimming Pearl Harbor Day. And this tree came with a metal stand, also insurance to prevent another fallen Christmas tree.

Eddie

 

[circlew]

There’s a somewhat funny story about how we came to have our current artificial tree. When we moved here in 1994 we knew that we’d want to place the tree in front of the window and the electric baseboard heater is right under that window. In he past we’d always had either a cut tree or a live one. But they would had posed a fire hazard that close to the heater. So we went to Walmart and bought a nice 7” artificial tree.

Since we hav so many nice ornaments, many on the heavy side, and since they couldn’t be seen from the side that faced the window we used to concentrate most of the nicer ornaments in the front and on the side. Well, on Pearl Harbor Day of 2008 (we always put the tree up in 12-7) we had only about a doz. ornaments left to put on the tree when we heard a loud crack and then the tree started to fall towards us. David and I quickly managed to catch it and let it softly land on the carpet. Even so we lost about 8 of the glass ornaments. The plastic stand that came with the tree had broken from the years of stress due to weight being primarily on the front of the tree.

It was already about 5 pm and dark. We drove to Lowe’s that’s a mile away hoping to buy a new stand. Well there were no stands left. We had a $25 Lowes Gift card that our neighbor Barbara had given us that July when we were legally married one day before our 27th anniversary. As luck would have it there was one 7” artificial tree left, marked down to $30, so with our $25 gift card and tax it only cost us another $8.

We then had to go home, carefully remove all the ornaments and lights from the old tree and then decorate the new tree. We didn’t finish until after 11:30 pm. Wow, what an exhausting Pearl Harbor Day that was!

Eddie

That reminds me of when I was about 13 or 14, our church youth group had decorated the Christmas tree in the sanctuary at our Sunday night meeting. It was about 12' tall, with lights and many beautiful glass ornaments. I got a call from my friend Patty a couple days later, to please come to the church. When the organist had come in to practice, the tree had fallen over. Patty, a couple other kids, and I had to strip everything off, and the janitor helped us get the tree upright. This time he put a chain around it and fastened it to a hook in the wall. We had to replace some of the bulbs in the lights, and put the unbroken ornaments back on. It was a good thing it didn't fall over during church service, as it knocked over the pulpit, which may harmed the pastor.

 

[phillymatt53]

It's a shame about those crappy Christmas tree stands.

When I was renting a house back in 1988, down in the basement, under the stairs, I spotted an old dusty box which contained a "Lorelei" tree stand.
The box obviously was from the "50's era, and the stand looked like it was never used.
It's neat because it rotates about 1RPM, and has a switchable music box that plays Silent Night, and a foot switch that allows "rotate - rotate w/lights - lights only - off.
There are two AC outlets on the bowl that rotate with it for the tree lights.
(My artificial 7-foot tree already has 550 colored lights wired through it.)
As seen in this picture of the same stand, it was originally gold with chrome trim, but I repainted it in "Santa Claus Red" to contrast with the green tree. (as seen in my previous tree pics)
When I decorate the tree, I add the ornaments as it rotates, makes the tedious job much easier.

 

[phillymatt53]

Such a chore to do, (I hate being on a ladder) but I tastefully string some garland and C7 lights on the front of my house.



And of course I drag out the Christmas albums to entertain the guests.
That's me, about 15 years ago.