Woman cleverly cuts her electricity bills but keeps her house bright at night – and it’s all thanks to Home Bargains
WE’RE all looking for ways to cut our households bills in the current climate.
So instead of leaving her hall light on at night, one woman came up with a clever idea to keep her house bright, while keeping her bills low.
“Exactly what I’ve been looking for,” Susan Lindsay wrote on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group on Facebook.
“I need a hall light on all evening as it’s so dark and I’m always tripping over my cats.
“But this is the answer for me.”
She then shared two pictures of the grey LED glass lantern, as she added: “£4.99 home bargains, takes two triple a batteries led bulb.
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“Saves on electricity and is really nice too.”
“Agree – I have a white and pink and they are ideal,” one person commented on the post.
“I have one of these in the hallway,” another added.
“The batteries last a month so cheaper for me as I’ve got spot lights so a lot more lights than just one running.”
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“These are great,” someone else commented.
“I got a couple and two of the standing lights that are also battery operated.”
The standing lights are £14.99 each.
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And while some said that using battery-powered lights would still cost a lot, another added: “An ordinary LED light bulb will cost you about 4p in electric if you leave it on 24 hours.
“If you run it 8 hours every night, that’s still less than a fiver a year in electricity.”