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Make it the Best - And Safest - Time of the Year

 
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With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, many people are checking their to-do lists twice and may not be thinking about how to keep their homes safe for their families.   To keep your holidays holly and jolly, get started with a few simple steps.      
 
 
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If you like to have the brightest Christmas display known to man like Clark Griswold of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation or you prefer minimal lights, you should always take safety precautions.  So when you shop for indoor or outdoor lights, look for a label that indicates that they have been safety tested by an independent laboratory.  Whether your lights are new or old, carefully inspect them for frayed wires, cracked or broken sockets or loose connections, and if you don’t know how to repair them, simply discard them.   Hang the outdoor lights with United Laboratories-rated clips, rather than staples or nails, which can damage the wiring.  To avoid overloading an extension cord, use no more than three standard size sets of lights.  Don’t put lights on a metallic tree because it can electrocute a person who touches it, and keep ... more

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