My wife wants me to get our Christmas lights up in 2 more weeks and I have a bit of a dilemma for one part of it.

I like to wrap the porch posts with lights but need something easier/more manageable this year. We had those LED tube type ropes for a number of years which were a little bit of a PITA to wrap around the posts but looked nice. They since died and I got long strings of red and white lights from Amazon like 100 feet lengths.

The issue I found last year is that kind of length is a REAL PITA to stand there and try to wrap and with bushes nearby it’s kind of tight.

Does anyone have any ideas or recommendations for lights I could put on these posts that I don’t have to wrap? The idea is that they sort of look like candy canes when lit.

Maybe just go straight up and down instead of around?

Any ideas? I don’t want to just skip it this year for the posts but using the existing strings is out of the question.

There’s got to be something out there that is easy to put up I’d think?

Google stretch net lights for columns.

String the lights you already have vertically, and use staples to hold them.

Stagger the "drop" as you go to present a "diagonal" illusion if the lights are in a red/white/red/white pattern on the string.

If you space them about 1-2 inch width, the drop would be about the same drop as you go around the post.

Wrap with red ribbon and just go vertical with the lights to highlight.

Laser projectors to put red, green and blue spots all over the posts?

With anything like columns that I wrap, I coil the lights up in a tight coil, and wrap the column with the coil, unwinding it as I go.

Can you post a photo of the area?

Wrap the string left to right one time then repeat right to left switching at the back of the post. Fasten each pass at the post back with blue masking tape. Clean the post first to stick tape better.