Making
Holidays Greener
It’s no longer Christmas, but my 5 year old doesn’t seem to
care. He likes playing the Christmas
with the Chipmunks album on the PlayStation3 while he plays video games. He wants to decorate a tree. For some strange reason both last year and
this year he wanted Christmas in February and March. Some campgrounds (which are usually only open
in the spring, summer and part of fall) offer festivities like Christmas in
July or Christmas in August. The lots
are decorated with Christmas décor and lights and there’s even a parade where
Santa is the final “float”. It’s fun and
the younger kids get a kick out of it, especially when it happens so close to
the 4th of July parade and activities.
So, given my son’s recent obsession with a holiday that’s
still more than 9 months away, I’ve got Christmas on the brain. What better time to talk about Christmas
lights? (Actual Christmastime, right?)
LED Christmas lights are getting more and more
affordable. For Christmas 2010 we
invested in some for about $30/box (300-light strand). For Christmas 2011, for the same product,
they were nearly half that! When looking
for “stocking stuffers” at Walgreens a couple nights before Santa’s arrival, I
saw a box of 50 for just $5. The LED
revolution is in full-force, I thought.
LED holiday lights come in various colors including multi-color strands
and single-color strands. Plus, they can
be used for more than just decking the halls at Christmas. The color varieties lend themselves to
Halloween, birthdays, weddings and just another way to light up a small
space. Our friends go “all-out”
decorating for Halloween and Christmas – lights, spooky ghosts and skeletons
for Halloween and Santa’s sleigh and reindeer, among other things, for
Christmas. I think I’ll be suggesting
they make the switch to LED this year.
Many light strands, including the one featured here, have
several settings such as “waves”, sequential, slow glow, chase flash, constant
on, and others. The LEDs are great,
since, like all other LED products, they consume less energy. The ones featured here take only 1 to 5
watts, depending on the sequence mode being used. They stay cool during and after operation, so
there’s less fire hazards than with traditional lights and you won’t be
replacing them every year, since they last for at least up to 25,000 hours.
Most people usually wish for a white Christmas, but I’ll be
looking for a “green” one this year!
http://www.agreensupply.com/under-10-sale-led-string-lights-green-color-10-meters-or-32-8-feet-long-no-extended-plug/
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