• Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
    6·
    11 hours ago

    A real tree (less so a plastic one) is like having a jerry can of gasoline in your living room … then you decorate it with cheap electrical wiring that might cause a spark … then drape it all with bits and pieces of plastic.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      7·
      9 hours ago

      To be fair, a plastic one is a lot like gasoline too, just in a different way

      • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        Two years ago I swapped out my old incandescent Christmas tree lights for LED ones. My wife likes seeing lots of lights in the tree so over the years, I had kept adding lights over time, by the time I last used the incandescent ones, I had about 500 lights for small 6 foot tree … it looked great and I had kept patching, fixing and repairing all the lines over time. When I finally took them out the last time, there were enough questionable connections, lights, loose connections, semi bare wires that if I had used them any longer, I probably would have burnt my house down.

        Now I have 600 LED lights on my tree … it’s not as temperature warm as it used to … uses about a tenth of the electricity and it looks great … and it is less likely to burn my house down.