It’s taken me a while to jump on the LED Christmas light bandwagon, mainly because the incandescent strands we have still work and the prices on the LED lights are still a little high for my liking. Last year though, I noticed I had about three strands that weren’t working properly, so I began pillaging them for bulbs.
Mini-LED Lights
This weekend, Home Depot was running a trade-in deal that I couldn’t pass up though. For every strand of incandescent Christmas lights you brought in to recycle, you got $3 off the purchase of a new set of LED lights. I ended up picking up 3 boxes of LED lights for about $9 after the discount, saving me 50% off the original cost. That’s what I call a heckuva deal!
I can’t wait to decorate for Christmas and see how these new LED light strands look and perform compared to their old outdated cousins. It will be nice knowing I’m using 80% less electricity to light up my holiday display with LED lights, they stay cool to the touch and you can (if you’d want to) plug in dozens more strands to each other before you risk overloading an outlet.
Have you purchased any LED lights? If so, share your experience with how they’ve performed and if you want to share a photo of your LED light display, that would be great too!
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does this mean you’re decorating early?
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I’m not decorating early, I’m just thinking about how I’m going to decorate early
Thanksgiving weekend will mean Fall decorations come down and Christmas decorations go up. It’s a lot to look forward too!
I think LED Christmas lights are pretty ugly, I’ll be sticking with the lovely, warm glow of incandescent
They are a little different looking. Do you not like how “cool” the light looks? It’s hard for me to get used too as well because I enjoy that warm incandescent glow. There seems to be some new developments for incandescent lovers like us though. This last week I just saw some warm toned LED lights at my local Menards store.
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