My husband thinks that he is Clark Griswold at Christmas time.
The guy likes to put up thousands of twinkling lights all over the house and the front lawn.
Our electric bill during november, december, and January is through the roof because of the thousands of twinkling lights. This year my husband bought $200 worth of lights that are LED and work from a remote control. They can be programmed to play music with a light show. The lights looked very interesting, but every time my husband plugged them in, something shut off. He had to get a couple of different extension cords and run power from the street. Still, the Christmas lights kept triggering our furnace to shut off. Every time my husband flipped the switch to turn on the Christmas lights, we blew the breaker to the furnace. My husband had to call the heating company to find out why the furnace kept tripping the breaker. It turns out that the problem didn’t have anything to do with the Christmas lights at all. We had a faulty breaker in the electric box and it needed to be swapped. The furnace repair technician could not swap the breaker. He told me that I should call an electrician to handle that work. He also advised me that the breaker looked very old and might be a part that I would have to purchase online before calling an electrician to install it. The breaker was hard to get, but luckily a local appliance store had several in stock. They weren’t even that expensive.