Let’s say you went out this Christmas (or after Christmas) and you picked up a whole bunch of new, energy-efficient LED light strings. Even on sale, those aren’t terribly cheap. So, there’s a neat and fairly easy way to get yourself a little extra mileage out of those lights: use them as house lights!
All you do is take a standard pole-style light, get a $2 socket adapter from basically anywhere that sells anything, and then you plug your LED lights into your lamp, put the shade around them, and voila! I never would have thought of this myself. It’s killing two dollar-sucking birds with one stone. You get to avoid light bulb bills, you cut down on your energy bill, and you get to reuse those expensive LED lights. It’s like a perfect storm of money-saving tips, three in one.
Of course, you have to have one of those type of floor lamps, or some way to string those lights inside a lampshade. They’re pretty cool-glowing, so that’s probably safe to do.*
*May not be safe to do.
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