Storing Christmas Lights

The season has come and gone, but like many of us great procrastinators out there I'm sure many of you still have up your tree and lights. Here are some simple and easy steps on how to properly store your lights!

1. Take care when removing your lights. Don't just yank them down off the tree or the house. Take the time to do it right, you'll be glad you did next year.
2. Fix faulty strings BEFORE you store them. Taking the time to fix your sets now will save you the time, money, and stress next season! Invest in a tester tool or repair box.
   
3. Unscrew the bulbs. What is a sure fire way to make a knot in your light line and break bulbs? Not removing them before storage. Those little boxes we ship C7 and C9 bulbs in are really handy, don't toss them. Save your boxes and properly store your bulbs and they'll last longer.
4. Wind up your mini lights. Here is a easy tip on storing mini lights and other pre made light strings, take a scrap cardboard piece and cut it into a rectangle, cut a small slit on one side of the board and slip your plug into that slit, start wrapping your lights around the board without overlapping the wires, when you get to the end of the wire cut another slit and put the end plug or bulb into that slit.
   
5. Proper Storage. As with all your holiday decorations it's best keep them in a dry place and in a good container. Manly people use plastic storage boxes and they are a great way to go, get the kind with a lid that snaps or latches on.
6. Labels, labels, labels. Label those boxes! So many times I've misplaced decorations and or gotten out the wrong box when decorating.

Follow these steps and take time when storing your lights and next years decorating off without a hitch!

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Zach

2010 is here! Time for a Sale!

It's been a while since we've updated the blog. Well we had a great season this year, thanks to so many people taking advantage of our coupons we had going on in the season. We appreciate all of the business that new and old customers had with us this year!

Now, we are having a end of the year sale. Click here to see whats on sale! We are selling Mini lights, LED lights, C7 & C9 Bulbs, Rice lights, Icicle Lights, Spheres and more! Some of these products are discounted up to 50% off our standard price! We are not going to have all of the products on sale permanently so order early and gear up for next season.

This next year we hope to really improve both aachristmas.com and allamericanchristmas.com, we hope to offer more of the large displays and products for commercial customers.

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Zach

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! As a way of saying thanks to our customers we are offering a 5% coupon on all online orders. Enter the coupon code Turkey2009 during checkout to get the discount on your order. We are running this sale until Dec. 5th so order early to make sure you get your lights delivered well before Christmas rolls in!

Please note that this offer is only valid on online orders only.

New Long Lead Craft Lights and LED Craft Lights

We are now carrying two lines of Craft Mini lights, we have a 12" lead and now a 36" lead. These 36" Mini Light craft sets come in both a 20 bulb count set and a 35 bulb count set. All the options you would expect are here, all standard colors, and both white and green wire. But the really selling point of these strings is the long lead, sometime a foot of wire just isn't enough for a plug on craft projects. Adding another 2 feet may not seem like a big improvement, but when you're trying to hide wire and use less extension cords, it is! Let's use some underscores to prove a point, The first row is 6 underscore lines and the second line I just copied and pasted 3 sets of 6 so imagine the first line is 12" inches and the next line is 36"...big difference, huh?
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We have these sets in cases of 25 and individual sets and they are ready for immediate shipment! These sets have a 3" inch space and 8' total length. We are determined to bring our customers the most options available and our craft lights have to be our most popular product line!

Speaking of options, we now have 2 sets of LED lights that are perfect for crafts! These new sets are a 25 Light set with Warm White Concave style bulbs and come in both Green and White wire. They have a 6' total length with a 3.5" bulb spacing with a 24" lead wire! These are the perfect mini light alternative, you can go green and make some killer looking crafts...all at the same time!

Ultra Thin LED lights

We love our LED battery powered sets, they are perfect for decorating parties, for holidays, weddings, and crafts. Last year I even used some battery powered LED lights inside a jack-o-lantern for some cool effects. But until recently the most exciting thing to happen to battery powered lights lately was the availability of more bulb styles, which is...kind of boring. Well, that all has changed with the introduction of Ultra Thin LED lights.

These are some of the coolest lights I've ever seen. We got our cases in and pulled out a set. Well right off the bat we knew these tiny sets were something special, their packaging is about 3 inches wide and 1 inch deep. After removing the set from its packaging we pop in 3 AA batteries and boom, all of 18 small LEDs light up and are very bright for as small as they are. The picture to your left makes these bulbs look like they are about half an inch long, in reality they are about the size of a uncooked piece of rice. The wire itself is not insulated rubber wire but stiff wire that has been coated with a form of paint for insulation. It's easily bent and twisted but doesn't feel brittle or that it's going to snap into pieces after bending the wire a couple times. We ran a test in house to see how long they'd last on 3 AA batteries, and they ran almost continuous for around 48 ours easy.

Again it's hard to imagine how small these bulbs really are so here are some pictures of them next to some common items. You can see how much small it is when compared to a dime and even the tip of a ball point ink pen, and see how small they are laying on a ruler.




Click here to check out these cool sets on the site!

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Zach
All American Christmas Co.