Christmas is over, but you don't want to get rid of those Christmas lights, do you? They bring such a joyous glow to your home, it seems almost wrong to pack them up in the attic for a whole year. Don't worry, I'm here with five totally awesome ways to keep Christmas lights in your life year-round.
Refer to Them with Inappropriate Names
This is the easy way out. You can just leave your Christmas lights up year-round and stop referring to them as "Christmas lights." If anybody asks, they're "Easter lights," "NBA Playoffs lights," "Dentist Appointment Day lights," or "Credit Card Bill Due Day lights." People will think you're really deep and optimistic because you're always finding reasons to celebrate life. (In reality, you're just being lazy and awesome.)Pimp Your Ride
Your car uses 12 volts of DC electricity. Your Christmas lights use 120 volts of AC electricity. This is easily solved with an affordable device called a power inverter. You plug it in to your car's cigarette lighter and ka-zam! Your car can now power Christmas lights... a lot of Christmas lights if you so desire. And if your break lights go out, you can just wire a huge, tangled mess of all-red Christmas lights into the break light switch and heap them in the back window. Now that's what I call classy.Dry Your Clothes
If you're the type of person who still has their Christmas lights up, you might also be the type of person who has a broken dryer. (Hey, I'm sorry for stereotyping, but you just seem like that kind of person, okay?) As long as you've still got your lights strung up all around the living room, you might as well put them to use and hang some clothes on them. And if you plug the lights in, the heat from the bulbs makes your clothes dry faster! (Or causes a bizarre-but-tragic electrical/underwear fire.)Become a Psychedelic Lion Tamer from the Future
A bullwhip is long, thin, and flexible. I don't think it's any coincidence that a string of Christmas lights is also long, thin, and flexible. Think Indiana Jones, but with five festive colors and a variety of exciting sparkling patterns for the whole family to enjoy.Have a Festive Hanging
Got some no-good cattle thieves in your town? Or maybe some scurvy pirates have been preying on your shipping interests? This time around, don't settle for the same old drab hanging--string these villains up with Christmas lights for a more cheerful execution! You can bring holiday joy to your gallows year-round! If you're not in to vigilante justice, you could wait until Halloween and use those happy, sparkly Christmas lights to hang some sort of scarecrow or mannequin to add an extra-disturbing element to your noose scene.
