Roll the lights in a ball, leaving a few inches of the male end of the plug sticking out as you take them off the tree. Makes it really easy to test the lights before you unroll the ball around the tree next year. No muss, no fuss.
Your conclusion relies on a missing value for the unknown period in which the joke was not yet old. Maybe it was funny for the first five years, and they are now 35 years into their hike.
Correction: correctly used apostrophes save lives. When apostrophe’s are used for plural’s instead of possessive’s and person/tense marker’s on verb’s, chao’s ensue’s.
“Oh son, I am simply over the moon! So happy. Thank you.”