I put up a small amount of Christmas lights on the house this week, fulfilling one of my solemn annual duties as a loving husband. However, it took me twice as long as it should have, and it wasn’t my fault!
This isn’t my first Christmas lights rodeo. I made sure to get more than enough lights. I made sure to plug everything in before I put it up.
Everything worked great. Both strands worked perfectly.
Where I went wrong, though, is that I didn’t test both strands at the same time.
Notice the difference between the two boxes?
The color temperature was totally different, but it didn’t say anything on the box!!! Damn packaging designers didn’t think to mention anything anywhere on the box about the color temperature, aside from the picture, which is easy to mistake for generic stock photo nonsense.
So yeah, I ended up with half warm and half cool. I had to redo one half of the railing, and it made me irate for all of 10 minutes, but these are the burdens we adults have to bear.
I’m a total stickler for having the right color temperature on my lights, but it never occured to me to pay much attention to Christmas lights. Consider me schooled.
I fixed it in the end. The lights are up!
PSA for all of you yet to do your own lights: watch that color temperature!
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