Leaving your holiday lights on for 24 hours and exponentially increase your energy costs and pollution. Make sure you unplug them, or even put them on a timer so that they are not on all the time. Try to keep your holiday lights usage to six hours or less to keep your energy bill down.
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We put our lights up at the beginning of the month and have only turned them on once. :-/ I’m lazy and didn’t want to go in the cold to plug them in but I’ll lie and say I was being thrifty.
Mine are on a solar thingey that I got on clearance a few years ago! Goes on at dusk, then off 4 hours later!
i hated havn go out n cold n snow everynight so when i saw these remote controll plugs i had get em.. my 2 yr old jus pushes on button turns em all on n pushes em off b4 he goes bed..dont even have 2 open the door…ahhh! lol
i hated havn go out n cold n snow everynight so when i saw these remote controll plugs i had get em.. my 2 yr old jus pushes on button turns em all on n pushes em off b4 he goes bed..dont even have 2 open the door…ahhh! lol
Ours are on a timer, but I’m liking the sound of the solar power thing! Something to look for after Christmas. I have noticed lights going out very early this year because we went out looking at lights one night and a neighborhood that had them on at dusk was dark at 8:30-9. Kids were passed out anyway on our way home
I’m all for being thrifty but I actually am glad some of my neighbors leave their Christmas lights for long hours. I come home from work late in the evening and leave again early every morning and it cheers me up to see the pretty lights. It’s a lonely, dark drive otherwise.