text: how do you straighten out icicle style lights? whenever i buy them at the store and unravel them they are bent and i don't know what to do. what i do before i put them up outside the home -- is that i, right after i take a shower (and while the bathroom is still warm and moist) hang the newly purchased icicle lights over the shower curtain rod -- and let them stay in there overnight.   the moisture and heat in the bathroom does most of the trick of straightening out the bends that are present from packaging.