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Title: Christmas electric bill?
Post by: sgluckadoo on December 14, 2014, 08:18:39 pm
Do you decorate for the holidays? Do you notice a big difference in your electric bill?
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Post by: raven1114 on December 15, 2014, 03:00:21 am
We do and never noticed a huge difference.
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Post by: Screwedupclick4life337 on December 15, 2014, 04:42:17 am
Yes we do an not really
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Post by: Nancy5 on December 15, 2014, 07:01:54 am
We do, we really haven't noticed any big change in the bill.
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Post by: singletonb on December 15, 2014, 07:55:27 am
We do but have not noticed a big difference in our bills.
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Post by: dancer139 on December 15, 2014, 07:56:22 am
I'm on a budget so mine is always the same year round. i always pay the difference in January when my year is up  lol  so i don't know if the extra is from the summer cooling or my December Christmas lights.  Doesn't matter they are pretty and i really don't care  :)
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Post by: tikihut5 on December 15, 2014, 08:19:21 am
There isn't a huge difference. I don't put a ton of lights up and have them synced to music.
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Post by: bowrunner on December 15, 2014, 08:59:47 am
I used to when I had lights outside but I no longer have them outside so I don't have a higher electric bill.
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Post by: ghunter on December 15, 2014, 09:12:32 am
We do, but the bill never really change that much.
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Post by: vp44 on December 15, 2014, 11:40:22 am
My son and I do decorate but we try not to turn the lights on for long period of hours. So not much difference on the bill.
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Post by: moonangel on December 15, 2014, 06:51:15 pm
have had lights in the past and never noticed a difference
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Post by: gaylasue on December 16, 2014, 06:03:21 am
I don't decorate any more.  When I did, our electric bill would take a huge jump.  I  have so many lights on my tree that we wouldn't need to turn the furnace up very high because of the heat generated.
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Post by: kimber62372 on December 16, 2014, 06:10:37 am
This year is the first year I did not deck out the outside of my house! I am tired of the huge electric bill that comes with it. A tree with lights and lights wrapped around my lamp post is it for me this year! It's about Christ not about how sparkly your house is! :)
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Post by: lhz123 on December 16, 2014, 06:25:28 am
We do decorate every year, I put Christmas lights and colorful  small bulb lights in front of our house. Its really cool to watch it at night.
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Post by: pwvogt on December 16, 2014, 08:07:56 am
We used to decorate a *lot* when we were younger and it did make a considerable difference in our electricity bill.  As we've gotten older and less able to do all the decorating our decorating is more modest and there is now only a small blip on the electricity bill.
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Post by: yikes77 on December 16, 2014, 08:58:24 am
We still decorate but only light it for a few hours a night.  We're expecting a spike in hydrop prices as it is, I don't need any more!
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Post by: nannycoe1 on December 16, 2014, 11:39:43 am
I think they increase your bill for Dec. whether you decorate or not!
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Post by: ShadowWolf16 on December 16, 2014, 09:42:01 pm
We always decorate every year and I never notice too much of a difference in our electricity bill. But, this year will be the first year that we will not put up too much outside our house. The most we will do is wrap lights around our lamp post near the driveway and put a wreathe with lights on the door.
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Post by: Forp on December 16, 2014, 09:55:41 pm
Some years.  I read on a box of lights that it adds 30 bucks to your electric bill..to run them 4 hours a night for a month..so I don't run them all month  just some of the time.
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Post by: Skyenkit on December 18, 2014, 12:24:12 pm
One time we had a lot of Christmas lights all over our house and yes we noticed a difference of our electric bill. That's why this year we tried to minimize our lights and turn them off by midnight. Except of course when its really close to christmas we let them on overnight.
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Post by: monnee on December 18, 2014, 03:24:55 pm
Due to the cold winter weather, the electric bill is going to go up for sure.
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Post by: renee10 on December 18, 2014, 11:09:44 pm
I'm not decorating this year so the electric bill won't be any different.
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Post by: schoolvan on December 19, 2014, 03:20:40 am
I don't decorate anymore so by bill stays ok