You Should Be Stringing Lights on Your Christmas Tree Vertically
TikTok users have revealed a genius hack for decorating your Christmas tree.
The secret? String the Christmas lights vertically instead of wrapping them around the tree.
This method means you'll use fewer lights, and it's easier to change out the lights.
Forget everything you thought you knew about decking out your Christmas tree with string lights. These viral TikTok videos reveal why you should actually be putting your lights up vertically, instead of wrapping them around your tree.
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In this video, TikTok user Liz Lovery demonstrates how to vertically string lights on your Christmas tree, while explaining all the benefits of this method. The pros: When you string them up and down, you use fewer lights. Plus, if some lights go out, it's much easier to change them.
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Lovery says she learned the decorating hack from TikTok user Clare Hooper. In Hooper's TikTok, she explains that when decorating Christmas trees used to part of her job, she used the "zig zag" (vertical) method.
Hooper says hanging your lights vertically instead of coiling them means you won't waste lights at the back of your tree.
And if you need to swap out any broken strings, read our helpful guide on how to fix your Christmas lights .
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