So, you've gone through a year's worth of dust and spider webs and you finally have all the Christmas decorations in your hot and sweaty hands. Before you can do anything else—before the ornaments, the wreaths, the stockings—you start searching for the lights.
Finally, you find them. You spend the next hour untangling the web of wires. And then you plug strand after strand into the wall.
They don't work. There is one dead bulb souring all the little lights.
You curse. You moan. And in a moment of fiscal frivolity, you go to the store to buy more.
But not this year. Nope. This year, before you even open the first box, you are headed to Seasonal Concepts (14121 Manchester, 636-227-4044, seasonalconceptsonline.com) or the Westlake Ace Hardware (8740 Manchester, 314-968-6448 or 9065 Watson, 314-962-3200, westlakehardware.com) or a multitude of national chains to buy…
THE LIGHTKEEPER PRO
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
Some sweet and super-smart soul invented this thing that looks like a glue gun or wierd water nozzle but isn't.
And exactly how does it work? Let me quote the company (since I do not understand it at all): "Most miniature Holiday Light set failures occur when an individual bulb “shunt” fails to energize. These shunts are energized when a filament burns out. This causes a section of lights, usually 35 or 50, to go out instead of just one light bulb. This is because miniature light sets are wired in “series” and electricity must flow through each bulb, to the next, for them to light.The LightKeeper Pro Quick Fix Trigger sends a shaped, electrical pulse through the defective bulb, clearing the shunt. This allows it to operate properly. The current can then flow through the light set completing the circuit and illuminating the other bulbs."
Who knows? Who knew? But it is available at Seasonal Concepts and the West Lake Ace Hardware (or, I must confess, online through amazon.com).
And the price of sanity? $18.75.
Here's to a very Merry Christmas.
