Comment on How I hang Christmas lights without a ladderparentComments−fbdab1033yIt somehow never occurred to me that - obviously the traditional Christmas lights were candles. Unless the original method was to cut at tree, decorate a still wet one for a day, and then toss it - how did anyone ever consider that a good idea?−nemo44x3yYou would be present when they were burning which I assume was on Christmas Eve in most places. Tree was probably cut down the same day too.But yeah it’s an awful idea. People YOLOd more back in the day.
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It somehow never occurred to me that - obviously the traditional Christmas lights were candles. Unless the original method was to cut at tree, decorate a still wet one for a day, and then toss it - how did anyone ever consider that a good idea?
You would be present when they were burning which I assume was on Christmas Eve in most places. Tree was probably cut down the same day too.
But yeah it’s an awful idea. People YOLOd more back in the day.