Are you having outside lights this Christmas?

As the cost-of-living crisis begins to bite some of us may be thinking twice about how much energy we should be using over Christmas.

There have been reports of many councils across the UK cancelling their annual Christmas lights switch on to save on energy costs.

Guildford Borough Council announced that the cost of putting on the event safely would be too high at a time when it is ‘struggling financially’. Leader Joss Bigmore said the council ‘cannot afford or justify value for money for such an additional significant cost’

Budleigh Salterton, in Devonshire, will also have its light switch-on cancelled because the council ‘could not take on the cost of the lights in the economic climate’.

Ely council, in Cambridgeshire, said it could not justify spending the typical £9,000 on their Christmas event this year.

And, just like local authorities, many of us are holding off on spending our money on decorations. Some are saving switching on lights until the Christmas week itself and others are not switching them on at all.

What will you be doing this Christmas? Will you be saving your lights until Christmas Eve or will you be switching them on regardless? Will you be scaling down your decorations?