These photos prove half-lit Christmas trees are all the rage this winter
There’s nothing more annoying than getting into the holiday spirit — tree purchased, decorations moved out of storage, Christmas music blaring, hot toddy poured — to find you don’t have enough lights halfway through stringing them on the tree (a problem that people with crazy cool light displays never seem to have.) Now what?
In this moment, you face a moral dilemma: Put your cup of hot chocolate/hot toddy/whiskey on the rocks down to trek to the store to get more lights (read: the logical decision?) Or leave the tree as is in all it’s perfectly imperfect glory because, like Lady Gaga’s hit single #BornThisWay, you accept the tree for what it is and also that hopefully spiked hot chocolate is just too damn good?
The people below found themselves in this exact predicament — a few light bulbs short — this holiday season. But instead of frantically trying to purchase new lights or try to find the ones they know they had last year which are now somehow is nowhere to be found, they decided to leave their tree as is.
Some lights make it half-way, others black out on top, or in spaces in between. A few people used the little amount of lights they did have and got creative — who says the lights needed to wrap around the entire tree anyway?
Because when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Or in this case, a half-lit work of holiday art. Unlike “fetch,” these tree decorators may actually make this new Christmas light look happen.
1. Half-lit? Nah, it’s wearing a skirt!
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2. When in doubt, use a distraction.
3. It’s minimalism!
4. The top is the most important part of the tree anyway.
My wife got creative when wrapping lights around the Christmas tree.
5. Missed a spot.. or two.
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6. If Neptune can have a dark spot so can this tree.
7. It’s nighttime in the Northern Hemisphere.
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8. This tree is so (half) lit.
Wow I love my broken half lit and understated tree pic.twitter.com/Vpt7adF0gp
— celt green remade@CHECK PINNED (@xing_moved) December 4, 2016
9. This tree looks like it was supposed to come pre-strung so that’s just wrong.
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10. Maybe no one will notice.
Christmas tree fail pic.twitter.com/tYGbavE9No
— Steve O'Donnell (@SteveODonnell1) November 28, 2015
11. We give it an 8.5.
End of season on sale pre lit Christmas tree from Grandma #fail pic.twitter.com/wwSkWq8R1I
— Sarah Hakkers (@pollster_87) November 21, 2015
12. You see the face, right?
can't figure out how to light up the middle of the tree #fail 😑🌲 pic.twitter.com/mYllx13Him
— Amanda Falco (@stompinwitnelly) December 23, 2013
13. Welp.
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14.¯_(ツ)_/¯
15. Charlie Brown on strike?
City Hall Christmas tree is only half lit up. What happened now? Did Charlie Brown die?! pic.twitter.com/Y5GspqFtFU
— Lardy Revenger (@LardyRevenger) December 9, 2016
16. Better luck next year!
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