What A Disappointment

its a few years since i have had christmas lights but i remember something about how sometimes only one bulb needs to go for them not to work, depending on the sequence. there's something i found here, and they suggest checking the bulbs and seeing if they are all screwed in properly. otherwise the testing each section separately is a bit outside my skills experience. http://ask.metafilter.com/108792/How-to-fix-Christmas-tree-lights-in-series

I don't have one at home. But I love those giant trees on the mall and living trees decorated with lights along the street all over the city. But the most wonderful sight is the Meralco Building- the biggest electric company building here in our country- wherein the whole building is covered with lights...whooo.

I have been very lucky because I have had my tree and my lights for years now and they are both holding up to expectations. I always check my lights when I take them out of my christmas box and I toss the ones that do not work. I have to say I have not tossed many of them. I can see the frustration you must have. I would just leave them too. I have children so I would be here forever trying to fix the tree. Also my tree never looks the same after we put it up because my children feel they need to rearrange everything everyday. my garlin is half off the tree and in no particular order. Actually it pretty much looks like I threw it up there. Well i hope you solve your problem.

Although It was a blemish on your tree that the icicle ones didn't give off light,seeing that they themselves are transparent,they may after all be accepted as decorations.It is strange they worked only a couple days before packing in.

I have no christmas tree (yet). I don't know if I will decorate one this year, probably I will. From my experience the lights mostly work 1 year :-( Don't ask me why. Two years ago I had to take out all decoration since they quit right after I decorated the tree. Last year I gave away my tree to the school of my kids plus decoration. Since I was leaving to Africa. Before I left I did decorate a small part of an old fake tree for a daughter who stayed at home (yes home alone). Actually it was the top of a fake tree but it looked great as a small tree as well on a side table. Before I never decorated the christmas tree before Dec. 19 since this was the birthday of a daughter of mine. BTW one year we had a tree without lights as we were staying in Belgium (believe 1995). A big part of Belgium and Holland was under water.. we stole a tree out of the woods (we were up at a hill not able to leave, to go for shopping or go home) and decorated it with what we could find (alu paper, paper, etc). No lights but it was the best tree we ever had.

I bought a string of lights last year for my tree.. i used them like 3 weeks. This year I put them on and more than 1/2 didnt work. Seems they dont last long. i had to buy a new string this year. hey, have a wonderfull xmas there.

What we do now, after learning the hard way, we test the lights before we put them on the tree, we have two sets of lights, our tree looks dull with just one set of lights, so we have two, they have lasted a few years, but don't you find nowadays nothing seems to last long.

Often just one bulb in a strand will go out and certain strands then will stop all together. It can even be that the light gets broken rather than burnt out. Maybe next year will be better.

Since I have a pre-lit tree I have not used lights in a while. But I am thinking that maybe nest year I will look for a new tree without lights on it already. Then I will go and get the LED lights for it. I used to set my tree up with 1500 lights so that I could change the color at will. Maybe its time to do that once again.