[StatesEnemy]

Also, we used to re-use the outdoor lights for years (not a safe practice, especially in a severe Northern climate like Alaska, where insulation cracks so easily).

Now I go to WAL-MART or COSTCO and buy new lights- right AFTER Christmas, and put them away for next year.

Only one example of a product that is much more affordable with "free trade".

And that doesn't strike you as a porcine example of wastefulness (the opposite of conservatism BTW)?

Imagine a quality US manufactured set of LED based X-Mass lights that require an initial $20 investment but last 20 years.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Well, yeah, probably. But it's my money.

[Dane]

And that doesn't strike you as a porcine example of wastefulness (the opposite of conservatism BTW)?

Imagine a quality US manufactured set of LED based X-Mass lights that require an initial $20 investment but last 20 years

Ping me when you find a set. Like I stated before I used to dread the day after Thanksgiving, when the Christmas decorations went up. Looking through thousands of lights to find the "bad" one.

BTW, SE, why don't you start up your own company and make such an infallible set of lights as you stated in your above italicized passage.

Surely, you, the truest of truest Americans, could make such a dream come true.

A $20 set of Christmas lights that will last for 20 years.