Christmas Lights Advice

Christmas revelers love the blinking, colored lights that highlight the holiday season, but come January, their utility bill can turn even the zealous Christmas enthusiast into a Scrooge. What’s more, word on the street is that there are many more “would be” Christmas decorators - if only they knew that their holiday lights wouldn’t break their bank. A Fort Worth company, Christmas Light Source, has come to the rescue by offering a nifty little tool on their website that helps those holiday merrymakers determine the approximate cost of their lighting displays. With the rising costs of, well, just about everything, and with consumers becoming more and more aware of their utility bills, this handy dandy little tool is priceless.

Fort Worth, TX (PRWEB) October 31, 2008 — Christmas revelers love the blinking, colored lights that highlight the holiday season, but come January, their utility bill can turn even the zealous Christmas enthusiast into a Scrooge. What’s more, word on the street is that there are many more “would be” Christmas decorators - if only they knew that their holiday lights wouldn’t break their bank. A Fort Worth company, Christmas Light Source, has come to the rescue by offering a nifty little tool on their website that helps those holiday merrymakers determine the approximate cost of their lighting displays. With the rising costs of, well, just about everything, and with consumers becoming more and more aware of their utility bills, this handy dandy little tool is priceless.

Visitors to the Christmas Lights Electricity Calculator plug in a few numbers such as the number of bulbs/nets they are using, bulb size and bulb type and this tool instantly calculates how much electricity their Christmas lights will use based on their electricity cost per kW/hr. There are also helpful hints available to help consumers decorate in a more energy efficient manner and save a little on their utility bill. It can also help those who are considering holiday lighting decorations by giving them some insight on various types of lighting. It can help them decide what kind of lights would be best for them to use and how many lights to use to keep their utility bill at a manageable level.

Tool users are also treated to some very timely, money saving tips. For instance, they are advised to put their lights on a timer because, “Few Holiday-goers are out and about at 2 am in the morning.” Other money saving, energy saving advice that the site offers include considering LED lights and revising the time for putting up and taking down lights (up in late November and down in early January).

As consumers throughout the nation are feeling the crunch from lay offs to rising costs of living, not to mention increased energy costs, people are becoming more aware of their utility bills - and how to cut corners without doing without. “We thought that this would be a fun but useful tool,” says Shellie Gardner, co-owner of Christmas Light Source. “It does automatically what many folks are asking us about - and much more efficiently!” And we all know when it comes to saving money on utility bills, efficiency is the key!

Christmas Light Source is a one stop shopping source for Christmas lighting needs. From hardware to lights and everything in between, Christmas Light Source has everything for holiday lighting decor as well as tips, tricks and do it yourself projects. For more information, visit their website at Christmas Light Source.

Here’s a blurb of an article in the Central Arizona blog.

Contractor begins installing holiday lights

3 comments by Coty Dolores Miranda - Sept. 25, 2008 02:19 PM
Special for The Republic

Holiday lights are being strung around saguaros and palo verdes on the Chandler Boulevard median between 24th Street and Desert Foothills Parkway.

The Festival of Lights’ mile of million white lights holiday display doesn’t light up officially until November. But professional installers Christmas Light Decorators started putting up lights Monday morning.

Company president Doug Topham said the project could take several weeks to complete. Although an errant white light or two were left on Monday night, they’re not scheduled to be officially turned on until Nov. 24, three days before Thanksgiving. Then, they’ll shine each night from 5:30 to 11 until Jan 1. This is the second year Christmas Light Decorators have been contracted by the Festival of Lights. The Mesa-based company also decorates the courthouse plaza in Prescott, Mill Avenue in Tempe and Glendale Glitters in Glendale, among others.

June 14, 2008

Christmas Light Source has an entirely new and updated look! Many thanks to everyone who worked on it including the team at iCreativemedia.com. As owner and lead designer, Stacey has really kicked things up a notch making this website one of the coolest places to look for Christmas lights! (if I do say so myself LOL).

We’ll be adding a ton of new products in about 6 weeks and will be kicking off a Grand Opening Sale next week to celebrate the new look. Since pricing will be changing in July/August to reflect higher shipping and copper prices, it will be a good deal for customers to do all their Christmas light shopping REALLY early!!

Regards,

Best regards,

Shellie
Christmas Light Source
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I’m so happy that the blog is back up and better looking than ever! Thanks to Susan Emerson at Accrete Web Solutions for her help with the new template!

I just can’t decide what topics to cover - I know that this is a Christmas Lights advice blog and I have a ton of stuff to talk about regarding lights - but there is so much else about Christmas and other Holidays and parties that I may have to branch out a little

Let’s just say that this blog needs to be a nice place to sit down with a cup of coffee and think about Christmas in the middle of 90 degree temperature. Aaaah.

Regards,

Shellie

Hi,

After a little confusion and mayhem, we are bringing our blog back and have reloaded our old articles to this location.

Be on the lookout for our new look coming soon!

We have loaded additional articles at Christmas Light Source.