Forget everything you thought you knew about decorating out your Christmas tree with sparkly string lights: These viral TikTok videos reveal why you should be stringing lights around your tree vertically, not wrapping them around it.

No more wrapping in circles!

The first step to decorating a Christmas tree, whether fresh or artificial, should be putting on the Christmas lights. Often people do not add enough lights or add them incorrectly, which does not illuminate the Christmas tree like it should. Here are some designer secrets for adding Christmas lights to a Christmas tree, even if you are using a pre-lit tree this year.

This TikTok Christmas tree lighting hack will make your tree bright and cheerful just in time for the holidays.

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It's the Christmas season and time to trim the tree. If you are anything like me, every year you would wrap the lights around the tree like the stripes on a candy cane. . . . you keep going around and around the tree, slowly working your way up or down. Well, this year I did some research. Turns out there is a method to Rockefeller's tree madness. And since there isn't a person on the planet that doesn't "ooooh" and "aahhhhh" over their fabulous tree, I thought I would adopt their method…

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How to put lights on a Christmas tree so it GLOWS! Step-by-step tutorial with detailed photos that show you how to put lights on a Christmas tree.

Several TikTok users have shared an easy way to put lights on your Christmas tree that saves time and is much easier than the traditional way.