Which means that, again, if you are anything like me, soon you will watch your holiday spirit fade as you curse at the strings of Christmas lights that worked perfectly fine when you took them off the tree in January and are now shorted out.
No, I cannot solve the great mystery of why you can put away a perfectly good string of holiday lights in January and pull them out eleven months later and find they are dead. I think it's a conspiracy.
But every year it kind of kills me to toss them in the trash. So I was excited to learn that there is an initiative here in Minnesota to recycle them. Last year, they recycled 100,000 pounds of holiday lights. And this year their goal is to recycle 200,000 pounds. If you are in Minnesota, you can get the details on this program here.
And if you're not, do some searching locally and see if there is a program in your area.
Now back to decking the halls. And cursing at lights.
P.S. I'm hosting a Twitter party Monday night, November 29, for ATTPowerMoms.com. We'll be giving away more than $1,600 worth of prizes and phones. You can get all the details and register to join us over here. Hope to see you there.
