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Old Christmas Lights = $3 coupon

Take your old Christmas lights to Home Depot from November 5th-15th and get a $3 coupon for each set (up to 5 sets) good on any energy efficient LED Christmas lights. Home Depot LED lights will be $5.97 during that promotion- or only $2.97 each after the trade-in coupon!

Need a good reason to buy? The LED light strings use 80% less energy than tradtional incandescent and string lights. These should save you MORE in electric than the $2.97 you paid for them in one season!

Thanks Money Saving Madness for passing this along

November 1st, 2009 | Category: coupons

4 comments to Old Christmas Lights = $3 coupon

  • ashley
    November 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    This was right from the Home Depot sight: (features & benefits and how the old lights are recycled)

    Features & Benefits
    · Uses 80% less energy than traditional incandescent holiday lights
    · ENERGY STAR® qualified
    · Can last up to 10 times longer than traditional incandescent lights
    · Cool to the touch, reducing the risk of fire
    · Do not have moving parts, filaments or glass, so they are much more durable shock-resistant than other lights
    · The amount of electricity consumed by just one 7-watt incandescent bulb could power 140 LEDs- enough to light two 24 foot strings

    How Lights are Recycled
    · The light bulb coupler and the socket plug are manually clipped
    · Three byproducts result and four categories of raw materials
    · Each byproduct is independently shredded for separation, returning glass, HDPE plastics , and non-ferrous copper as well as ferrous steel
    · The prepared separated raw materials are then sent to licensed smelters for re-casting or re-molding, all in accordance with local, state and Federal statutes

  • Amy B.
    November 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    we did this and it was no problem! I did ask what they did with the lights we would exchange and they will sort them into 4 recycling components…….. the metal, plastic and such gets seperated out.

    5 sets of lights with the coupons with tax in our store came to $16.05

    also on our way to the check out line I spied a 2 bottle set of Round up (and it came with a pair of garden gloves) — reg. $14.95 for $2

  • Karen H
    November 2nd, 2009 at 8:10 am

    I love this! Thanks for passing it along!

  • Sally
    November 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am

    What does Home Depot do with the old Christmas lights that are brought in?