Another Binder-Clip Christmas

I know, I know... I did this last year too.This year I'm doing it with LED lights and slightly better photography.It all started when we moved in. I wanted to find a non-destructive way of attaching a string of christmas lights to the facia board above the porch. Being lazy I wanted to do it quickly and easily.I tried a number of different methods and none worked. The next step would be attaching eye-screws in the board to get things mounted.Then I had a brainstorm: big binder clips would be big enough to span the board! The problem is that they are ugly black. Well, ugly in this case anyway; on business documents they somehow work. Solution: spend a few minutes spray-painting them white to match the house.I even used the legs of the clip to hold up the plugs between the chains of lights to keep them from dangling:The cool thing is you can barely tell they're there!And it only takes five minutes to mount them all up.BTW: the new Philips LED lights are awesome -- they don't look blue at all. They compare very favorably to the incandescent lights that are on the wreath and in the windows. And they also use a lot less power![smugmug url="http://photos.vec.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=20281239_wqwJgz&format=rss200" imagecount="100" start="1" num="100" thumbsize="Th" link="lightbox" captions="false" sort="false" window="true" smugmug="true" size="L"]