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Originally Posted by KazzyK810  Well, after clearing up the yard the other weekend, I decided to put to outdoor christmas lights while the weather is still nice.
I bought the last few packs of contractor grade icicle lights on clearance at ACE after last Christmas (woohoo...love a sale!) I measured out where they needed to start & end to hit an outdoor plug and up they went.
Now, I knew I needed exactly two more packs (and would be paying full price...grrr), so off I went to the local hardware store. Buy them, get home, start uping them up and discover that...this year, each string is TWO foot shorter than last year, in the same brand! So now I'm 4 foot short over my garage  .
Ah...the joys of the holiday season...  |
Oh, no! Two feet shorter! Wow! Everything we buy but TV's is shrinking! I got some Little Debbie Christmas Tree Brownies a couple weeks back and when I was poking around in the Christmas Closet, I found a box from last year's Little Debbie Holiday Cakes that Danny or someone had stuck empty in there when putting away Christmas things. It was red, had Santa Claus on it, all Christmas-y looking and I guess he thought it was a decoration or, being a man, just didn't even notice so scooped it up with other decorations in the kitchen and off it all went. Anyway, I brought it out to throw away and thought it looked different. I put it beside this year's box and last year's box of cakes was 1/3 larger than this year's. I can't believe how dinky this year's box of goodies looked next to that old one and I think it was the same price or higher! Even the 3 liter Diet Cola's are 2.5 is some stores now.
I think those icicle lights are so pretty. I wish we had battery operated ones for placing along a table or something for inside.