I don’t like to post negative stuff, but, unfortunately, we
don’t live in a perfect world where everything is just peachy.
Yesterday, since the temperature was plus 4 C, I decided to
hang up our Christmas lites outside. Last year I purchased and installed clips
on our eaves trough. I took the lites off after Christmas but left the clips in
place. So I figured it wouldn’t take me no time at all to put up the lites.
How wrong I was! I climbed up the ladder for nothing. So much for the enjoyment of putting up the Christmas lites. No joy and happiness this year.
The clips I purchased only a year ago just snapped into small
pieces when I tried to push the lites into the designated holders. They
practically disintegrated. Not just a few of them. No, all of them! Even the
unused ones that were still in the box.
On the box it says ‘For seasonal use only’. What the heck
does that mean? Good only for one year? Or ‘use only in Summer’?
How can they sell such garbage? I bought these at Home
Depot, but I saw the same type at Wal-Mart, just in a different box. I’m sure
other stores sell them also.
I bought new clips today. They seem to be okay. They don’t
have that ‘plastic look’ to them. We’ll see
how they are next year.The lites are up. Fortunately, the weather cooperated.
I put all the broken pieces back into the box and I will take them back to Home Depot. I won't get my money back because I didn't keep the bill, but they will know I'm a dissatisfied customer.
Here are a couple of pictures. The pieces on the box are
from one of the broken clips.
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