Kestryl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2019
Quick and to the point: does anyone have any advice on buying Christmas lights for a house? Any sets you’ve loved or hated? Ways to keep costs down?
Longer:
We bought our house in January, and now we get to decorate it for the holidays! I’ve always wanted to do the icicle lights- you know, the strings of regular lights that hang down like “icicles.” My parents use them, and I just think they’re a really simple way of adding some lights to the house.
So I started looking. I actually started looking last year in December, right before we closed, but there was hardly anything left, or at least not enough to do a house- just like one string of this type, two of this, etc. (I was hoping to score a deal on after-Christmas sales, but I will pay more for uniformity.)
I’m a bit overwhelmed. I feel like LED is “smarter,” but of course they have a higher up-front cost. I guess I need to look at it as an investment for future years. My parents have had the same sent for 10 years, but they’re incandescent and they always complain about the higher costs.
I’m also wondering if it’s worth it to spring for lights where if one bulb goes out, the rest stay on.
So, any suggestions? Should I bug cheaper incandescents, or go big with the LED and fancy options?
Longer:
We bought our house in January, and now we get to decorate it for the holidays! I’ve always wanted to do the icicle lights- you know, the strings of regular lights that hang down like “icicles.” My parents use them, and I just think they’re a really simple way of adding some lights to the house.
So I started looking. I actually started looking last year in December, right before we closed, but there was hardly anything left, or at least not enough to do a house- just like one string of this type, two of this, etc. (I was hoping to score a deal on after-Christmas sales, but I will pay more for uniformity.)
I’m a bit overwhelmed. I feel like LED is “smarter,” but of course they have a higher up-front cost. I guess I need to look at it as an investment for future years. My parents have had the same sent for 10 years, but they’re incandescent and they always complain about the higher costs.
I’m also wondering if it’s worth it to spring for lights where if one bulb goes out, the rest stay on.
So, any suggestions? Should I bug cheaper incandescents, or go big with the LED and fancy options?