In Christmas movies where trees are decorated, I often see the lights in a jumbled mess. As a child it was the same way; untangling those lights took forever! A few years ago, I had an epiphany. Why not use paper towel rolls to store the strands? I have used this method for at least four years and it works every single time! It is very easy to wrap the lights around the rolls. And even though the final result looks imperfect, it is always easy to take off the lights! To try it, follow these steps.
When you are ready to use the strand again, simply find the plug end you tucked away. Pull it out and start unwrapping the lights! You'll find that they don't tangle at all.
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Get ready for next Christmas while you pack away the decorations this year. Start with your Christmas tree lights, replace non-working bulbs.
To keep my Christmas lights from getting tangled up, I wrap each string of lights around a rolled up newspaper or magazine with the plug being last and then I put a rubber band around the plug end to hold the lights in place.
One cardboard tube from wrapping paper is the perfect size for one strand of Christmas lights. Cut a slit at the end of the tube and slide the end of the light strand into the slit, then start wrapping the light strand tightly around the tube.
Roll up a thin section of newspaper to use as a tube to wrap your holiday lights around. They stay organized, compact, and it makes it easier to string lights right off the 'tube'.
Like a lot of you, I had trouble sorting out my Christmas lights when I got them out of storage. I bought some chenille pipe cleaners at the hobby store.
Using Pringles can to wrap Christmas lights is even better than tubes they don't bend. And you can store extra lights inside.
I found one way to store my strings of Christmas lights and they don't seem to tangle together. When I take them down, string by string, I put them in a box then put a sheet of newspaper in between each individual string and layer them in the box.
Take any cardboard box. Put a string of lights in the bottom. You don't have to do any fancy rolling or anything. Then put a layer of 1 sheet of newspaper on top of them.
