After a week of letting our christmas tree set in the corner of my office/sitting room, Ed and I finally decorated our tree!!! This year we took advantage of the Home Depot christmas light trade in. Using the rebate from turning in our energy sucking incandescent christmas lights (to be recycled of course), we got new energy-efficient LED christmas lights for only $3 a box! I find it super cool that I can feel less guilty about the energy used to bolster my christmas spirit, since LEDs use 80% less energy than traditional lights. Also, the initial cost was so low that we should recoup it in no time. Just a word of warning, I'm not certain if it just the brand that we purchased, but the LED lights we got project target shapes on nearby surfaces (like the ceiling and floor).
I am the type of person who always forgets to turn the christmas lights off when I go to bed, plus I hate having to crawl under the tree to plug the lights in. So, this year I hooked the christmas tree lights into a timer, and set it so they come on and off when its dark outside and we are awake (both in the morning and night). I LOVE coming home and seeing our christmas tree lit up in the window.
