The Season For Christmas Lights
Posted by Jane Moore | Filed under Home & Family
The streets are beginning to twinkle and soft Christmas music is beginning to be pumped out on to the sidewalks. These are timeless images. The streets and avenues have been decorated with sparkly lights for hundreds of years and there is no reason to think this might change over the next hundred years.
At first glance it seems as though Christmas lights and Christmas decorations rarely change. We still use the same wreaths, garlands, mistletoe, stars and angels that out grandparents did. We still hang Christmas lighting from the edges of our roof tops. One of the special things about Christmas is the cherished continuity. It always feels the same. However, in reality Christmas lights have undergone a metamorphosis.
In days gone by, each individual Christmas bulb was hand screwed into a string of Christmas bulbs. Putting up the strings was heavy and cumbersome work. It was tricky work to get each light to light at the same time and then it was tricky work to get them fastened to the rain gutter. Each year many of the light bulbs needed to be replaced despite working perfectly when they were stored the year before.
Recent lighting technology has made advances in all of the ways we use lighting in our homes. Innovations in Christmas lighting are no exception. These days energy efficient LED lights make up the vast majority of Christmas lights on the market today. These new fangled Christmas lights are durable, light weight, use very little energy, do not create heat, and best of all are very reasonably priced. These lights are just as beautiful as their predecessors but cheaper and more durable.
Small LED lights are also great for creating focal pieces such as light balls and light stars. These focal pieces are starting to get very popular. At one time they were very expensive but now they can be found reasonably priced at Ikea.
The time for Christmas lights is upon us. This weekend will be the first weekend of Christmas house parties and therefore a lot of Christmas lighting will go up today. Our houses and communities will start to twinkle as they have for centuries at this time of the year. Christmas lights brighten our spirits and our homes.
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