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For many of us, it is time to begin decorating our homes in preparation for the holiday season. If you are like most of us, you still have the old, traditional Christmas lights that you have been using for years. The Halloween decorations are likely just as old and tired. This may be the perfect time to think about upgrading to solar holiday lights.

Traditional holiday lights are a hassle. You always wind up running extension chords all over the place, burned out bulbs need to be replaced; you have to worry about short circuits due to rain, the huge electricity bills… Yea, it’s a pain. Solar holiday lights completely eliminate those hassles, but how do they look?

Solar lighting technology has come so far in just the last couple of years that manufacturers have release a huge assortment of solar lighting styles – including Halloween and Christmas lights. For Christmas you have options like:

Solar Net Lights – These are basically a “net” of LED lights that you use to wrap a shrub. They light up at night and a sensor turns them of when the sun rises. They stay lit for about 8 hours and require 1 AAA battery that is sold separately.

Solar String Lights – String lights usually come in a string of 50 LED lights. They also come with a sensor that turns them off during the day and back on at night. They are great for stringing along your front porch railing, the eves, in trees and just about anywhere else you want.

Multicolor Solar Christmas Lights – These lights are the multicolored counterparts to the regular string lights. They also have a day/night sensor and usually come with about 50 LEDs.

Blue Snow Flake Solar Lights – These lights are beautiful and can be found very inexpensively. Unfortunately, some people had reported problems with the lights not working after a couple of months, but others have had no issues. They come in a string of 20, and can be found for as low as $7.99, so I will leave it up to you. I do know that the main company that sells them has a very good ranking on Amazon.

If you’re looking for Halloween decorations, you can choose:

Solar Halloween Lighted Carved Pumpkin Jack-o-lantern Decoration – This is a solar power smiling Jack-o-lantern decoration for a front lawn or porch. It is about 8″ in diameter and has a daylight sensor that lights it up at night and turns it off during the day.

Halloween Sound Activated Rocks – These are rocks that charge during the day, and at night light up with a “Go Back” or “Boo” (depending on the model). These rocks are about 9.5″ by 6″ by 4″. They also have a daylight sensor and are solar powered (of course).

Solar Powered Lighted Halloween Skull Decoration – This is basically the same as the smiling pumpkin, but a little bit bigger and in skull form.

Needless to say, they all come with the benefits that we have come to expect from all solar lighting products, like: ease of installation, energy efficiency, versatility, etc. Not to mention, most traditional lights need to be either turned on and off manually, or attached to a timer. All of these solar holiday lights come with daylight sensors. It doesn’t get more trouble free than that!

There are many more types and styles of solar holiday lights, but I hope I have helped to spark some ideas for you.

Find all of the lights in this article and many more at Steve’s Easy Solar Lighting site, as well as many more easy solar lighting projects.