Get ready to be upset at how much time you've wasted hanging lights, people.
Thanks to TikTok, we now have a new (to us) hack that will save you time and frustration when putting up your Christmas tree. Work smart, not hard.
Get ready to be upset at how much time you've wasted hanging lights, people.
Thanks to TikTok, we now have a new (to us) hack that will save you time and frustration when putting up your Christmas tree. Work smart, not hard.
She's a lifestyle blogger who really loves Christmas. She posted a TikTok explaining that coiling the lights around your tree is not the way to go — and neither is hanging your lights horizontally.
So if anyone knows how to decorate a tree, it's her. What you want to do is take your lights and start at the top of the tree, and then...well.
Zig-zag them up and down your tree, covering the entire thing in lights. I'm a horizontal zig-zagger, so this hack blew my mind.
Goodbye, trying to pass lights around the back of the tree. She also pointed out that this makes removal very easy, which is a lifesaver for when Christmas is over and the tree is still up mid-January.
As of publishing, it has over 1.2 million views. People absolutely love the hack for its ease, especially for those who don't have a lot of time to decorate the tree.
As it turned out, it's an absolutely brilliant hack that looks good, too! TikTokker @lizlovery decided to go all around her tree with her lights, since the hack seriously takes no time at all.
If you break a string or a bulb goes out, it's way easier to disconnect that string from the main tree and replace it. Seriously, this hack is a lifesaver.
It has over 12 million views, dwarfing Clare's initial TikTok. The people like a good Christmas tree hack! Most comments praised the ingenuity and the quickness of the assembly.
I am one of those people, tbh. My tree is pre-lit, but I love adding in extra lights for more sparkle. This would have saved me at least one argument with a pack of lights!
Okay, so note to self: when zig-zagging lights, stagger the height of the zigs (and the zags) in order to avoid everything looking overloaded. Maybe tuck some of the strings into the tree, too.
As a cat owner with a cat that has insisted on chewing on the tree this year, I can attest to the struggle of trying to keep a tree up and decorated with cats.
Come through, life hack! No need to do more work than you need to, especially if no one is going to see it. I applaud you, Fan Man.
The amount of crazy stuff I've learned on TikTok that I can actually use in my daily life is astronomical. Thank you, TikTok, for teaching me what years of schooling couldn't.
Would you try hanging your lights vertically? I think tucking them in a little would definitely help give the illusion that you hung them "correctly." It's a hack worth trying, tbh.