<$Wednesday, October 31, 2007$>
Product Love: LED Christmas Lights
| As October comes to a close, it's looking less and less likely to happen, but I'm still holding out hope that Husband and I will be in our own place by Christmas. Whether or not our Christmas wish comes true, I want us to aim to have an environmentally-conscious holiday season. There's a lot of talk in the personal finance blogosphere about switching out incandescent lightbulbs to CFLs in order to reduce both energy costs and environmental impact. So it makes sense to also look at alternatives to incandescent Christmas lights. One such alternative is LED Christmas lights, which look just as pretty while using 90% less energy than incandescents. They're safer, too, seeing as they don't get nearly as hot as the old-fashioned variety. Growing up, artificial trees were de rigueur in my family, so one thing I'm definitely looking forward to is the day I have space for a real, live Christmas tree. I love the suggestion in this article, 9 Things You Can Do To Make Your Holidays Greener, to use a live tree that you can re-plant in your yard come spring. It has some other great suggestions, too, some of which I've already been doing for years--more for frugality's sake than that of the planet--like skipping cards or tags and just writing names directly on the package. Here I thought I was just being cheap; turns out I was also reducing waste. I really, really hope we can celebrate the holiday in our very own house this year; but even if we're stuck spending another Christmas in our two-room attic, we can enjoy the challenge of having ourselves a Green Christmas. Labels: disclosure, green, PPP |
