There are many different holiday lights you can choose from. Your Christmas decorations can be green and energy efficient. Christmas is almost here so it’s time to hang up the Christmas lights and put your home in a festive mood. Here are a few ways you can decorate your home and still be kind to the earth.

Use natural holiday decorations: Green decorations are environmentally friendly, won’t end up in a dump and add an unexpected touch to any house’s decor. They’re lots of holiday decorations that don’t use electricity at all. You can make your home festive with fresh evergreen boughs and other winter plants like holly bushes and poinsettias.

Use light-emitting-diode Christmas lights: You can save up to 40% on your electric costs for holiday lights if you switch to LED decorations. Some home improvement stores are trying out Christmas light trade-in programs to help encourage people to change to LED holiday lights. But be careful, light emitting diode Christmas lights are not always a great deal. LED (light-emitting-diode) Christmas lights cost a little more new but they offer large energy savings over incandescent light bulbs.

Use decorations you already have: Try to skip purchasing all new holiday lights each season. One of the best ways to save money is to go shopping in your own basement! By reusing holiday lights again and again you are keeping lots of plastic out of your local landfill and being smart about using resources.

Remember that your actions today can be a great gift for tomorrow’s children. As long as your Christmas lights are in good condition it should be safe to reuse them again and again. Many of these green decorating ideas will put more money in your pocket that you can spend on Christmas gifts! With a little planning you can put up decorations for the holidays and still be green.

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