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.