Time Guidelines for Holiday Lights

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we are going to be talking about how to decorate for Christmas. In this clip, let's talk about time guidelines for your Christmas lights. So we've got to think about we've got Christmas lights outside and Christmas lights indoors as well. Let's talk about your outside lights first off. If you think about your hydro bill so you are lighting the outdoors of course, with all of your Christmas lights, one, how many lights are you going to be using but how long are you going to have them on for. Advocate wise, usually you turn your lights on or no longer earlier one hour earlier before dusk and you want to have them turned them on by midnight so that should give people driving by a chance to look at your lights to see you are decorating. But again, no earlier than one hour before dusk and then up until the midnight hours. Another great thing to buy and add to your collection is a timer. You can get them at any store, you know a Home Depot type of store, Canadian Tires and such. To get yourself a timer for your light, perfect thing to add to that is (a), you don't have to think about it. We all live very busy lives and (b), you can just program it for when you want to start and when you want it to stop as well. Indoors light are slightly different of course. Usually you can turn your indoor lights on around 4:00 in the afternoon and have them going up until the midnight as well. Kids enjoy it with they are home from school. So again, maybe the kids can plug the tree in when they get home from school and save yourself a little bit of extra money and turn it off when they head off to bed. The only time this would change would be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Many people on Christmas day have their lights going 24/7 even on Christmas Eve as well. "