Christmas light swap could cut costs to '14p' per month, MoneySavingExpert says

Using one 100-bulb string of these lights for six hours a day over a month may cost roughly 14p, estimates suggest

If you want to decorate with Christmas lights but are discouraged by high bills, you're not alone. Last Christmas , 14% of UK households skipped their decorations due to worries about rising costs, according to GoCompare .

However, MoneySavingExpert (MSE) offers a festive lighting solution that could help ease the impact. The financial website, founded by Martin Lewis , asserts that employing specific decorations could slash costs to only 1p every 12 hours per 100 bulbs.

Perhaps surprisingly, this involves simply swapping traditional incandescent lights for LEDs, with the team highlighting a significant cost difference between the two. In an online blog, experts at