Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 07, 2023

It’s probably unplugged.

Perhaps you can spin the tree so the burned out spot will not be seen ;-)

A most aggravating factor.

Keep on pluggin’!

Time to get the ‘Trouble Shooting Mini Light’ tool out and see where the issue lies and hope that it’s just a burned out bulb.

Ours wasn’t, and my wife spent an hour removing the string from the tree (fortunately it was a small table top one) and installed a removal set we had.

It is usually in a row, tossed mine last year, regretting it. New one is too heavy for me to put up alone, first year w/o a tree. :(

i once left my Christmas tree up for 9 years

If you know what a “pre-lit Christmas tree” is, you are probably not a plugger!

This is why I have a silver tree with a color wheel.

How can lights be pre-lit? They are either on or off.

My former in-laws had a tree with multiple strands of different colored lights on different parts of the tree each one blinked so that half the tree or a quarter of the tree would disappear and reappear it was disturbing

the tree is missing a pair of eyeballs watching

Of course… LOL

Those “the rest of the lights stay lit if one goes out” sets have a tendency to all go out anyways. Troubleshooting that is a bit of a bother, even with fairly sophisticated test equipment and a degree in electrical engineering.

Just add another strand over it all – Then remember to toss the old set when it is taken down at the end of the season!