A friend posted her Christmas tree fail and blamed 2020. The bottom half was nicely lit; the top half was dark.
It's a common tree decorating problem, which may be solved by going to the store and buying more lights, unwrapping the tree and then wrapping it all over again.
OR... you could try a different way of hanging the lights this year, something that's trending on social media:
Instead of wrapping them the whole way around the tree, just do the front . . . and hang them VERTICALLY.
You start at the bottom . . . go straight to the top . . . then back down to the bottom . . . and keep going until the entire front is filled.
You could also zig-zag them horizontally across the front. But people on social media claim that vertical lets the lights sit closer to the tips of the branches for "maximum sparkle."
According to one source, that's how they do the lights on the tree in Rockefeller Center. So it might be worth a try.
The other benefit is they're a lot easier to take off and replace if one strand of lights stops working. And they're easier to take down at the end of the year.
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