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LED Christmas lights.
You don’t need Al Gore to explain the importance of energy efficiency during the upcoming holiday season. This you can figure out for yourself.
My neighbors light up the area with a fantastic display each year. Their utility bill is directly proportional to the number of strings of lights they tack or wind around their porch. This year it is all about LED Christmas lights. Yes… LED stringlighting. Beautiful and energy efficient. Over 80% less energy than incandescent lights. Funny, I never thought much about sustainable Christmas. Never considered environmentally friendly decorations — “green”in more than one sense of the word.
We are fans of warm white Christmas lights, the sparkly kind. With a white glow around the inside of the house, the colors of bows, ornaments, and decorations like garlands and poinsettias stand out and become a real part of the holiday for us. Cheerful – sustainable – energy efficient – and beautiful.
We’re buying LED lights this year. Yup. And I’m going to surprise the grandboys with lights around the big Leyland cedar outside the living room window. Can’t wait to get my order from holidayleds.com. The website has all kinds of tips, suggestions, and ideas for your holiday home. Christmas will be fun this year! Three year old and 20-month-old boy guaranteed! Imagine how they’ll love “Rob and Nana’s” house when we light it up for the holidays!
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I was just thinking that the cooler LED lights might be less stressful on live trees than the hot old incandescent ones. We moved to an area where getting a real Christmas tree was pretty much impossible so a couple years ago I tried substituting a rosemary bush. After being subjected to a week of the lights it was never the same and it eventually died.
We’ve discussed further this with the use of track lighting with LED for rooms in the house. Three watts and life of 10 years? I’m all for that.
i really enjoyed reading this post. i do love to celebrate christmas with coloured and decorated lights. every year i wish to decorate my home and x-mass tree with lights to have great fun with my family and friends. This time i am going to Try LED lights.
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