This is one that we truly are asked FREQUENTLY!

Let me start by saying that just because we have this large light display it does not mean we are better at stuff like storing lights. But with a very large garage, we can “cheat” a little.

The icicle lights on the face of the house for instance, are all mounted to 1/2 inch diameter electrical metal conduit. The pipe is hung from the gutters with custom made 3D printed clips. Then at the end of the season, the entire length of pipe is taken down and stored in one piece.

We have done things like this as much as possible.

The 52 strand of lights that make up the body of the “Big Tree” are rolled back onto spools and stored in boxes. They are attached to the base ring before unspooling and are respooled before they are disconnected.

There are some strands that are not spooled or mounted to pipe. Those and folded about 2 feet at a time hand over hand and laid in the bottom of storage tubs.

If we do store strands otherwise and they tangle, we give those away on Facebook and buy new ones. (Kidding! We fight it just like everyone else.)

A lot!

But you knew that. We can’t actually answer that question (yet) because we have never totaled them all up. We have talked about doing it, but the closest we have gotten is that the software estimates it around 25000.

For some real statistics:
The big Mega Tree (named “The Big Tree”) is made up of 52 strands of 150 LEDs totaling 7800, plus 100 for the current star on top. 7900 Total.

The pink mid Mega Tree (named “Camille’s Tree”) is made up of 26 strands of 50 LEDs totaling 1300, plus 100 for the current star on top. 1400 Total.

The ten “mini mega trees” along the front porch (named “The Little Trees”) each contain 200 LEDs. There are 10 trees so the light count totals 2000 LEDs.

The ground lights of “Snowman Island” are 6 strands of 200 LEDs. That is 1200 more LEDs.

The matrix contains 2400 RGB LED pixels. Each pixel is comprised of 3 LEDs (a Red, a Green, a Blue) which totals 7200 LEDs, but personally, that feels like a cheat, so I count it as 2400.

The arches are made up of 50 RGB LED pixels each. So either 150 LEDs, or again, as I count it, 50. There are 8 arches total so 400 pixels. (or 1200 LEDs.)

As we gather numbers on different props, we will update the list here. And MAYBE some day we will have a total.