Is less more this time?
In view of rising energy costs, the Christmas season offers good opportunities to save electricity when fairy lights and tree lights are off.
Or not?
Voices and moods from the district.
Alexandra Teuffel (47) from Sauerlach:
"I will definitely limit the Christmas lights this year, a simple way to save electricity and it doesn't hurt you either.
Even though the lights on the tree and house always look pretty nice, a little less never hurts.”
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Alexandra Teuffel (47) from Sauerlach
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Monika Lamprecht (59) from Unterhaching:
"We have individual candles with batteries for the Christmas tree in the living room.
Of course you need a lot of batteries and maybe that's why I'll get an LED light chain.
The fact is: I definitely want lights on the Christmas tree, that's important to me.
I haven't installed fairy lights for outdoor use in recent years anyway, especially since we only have a few old lights and they are definitely anything but energy-saving.
Maybe there will be a bit of LED here too.”
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Monika Lamprecht (59) from Unterhaching
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Sandra Mittermaier (37) from Hohenbrunn-Riemerling:
"We are not big Christmas lights.
Our motto is: prefer fewer, but use real candles instead.
We also installed a solar system a few months ago, so we'll have to see how it performs in winter.
In any case, so far it has been producing more than we consume.”
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Sandra Mittermaier (37) from Hohenbrunn-Riemerling:
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Renè van Kemenade (53) from Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn:
"We haven't thought about it yet when it comes to Christmas lights.
But we exchanged light bulbs for LED lights years ago, which saves a good 80 percent of electricity.
And the Christmas tree will probably shine again in LED light.
With us, even lower consumption is actually only possible if you do without any lighting at all.”
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Renè van Kemenade (53) from Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn
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Jürgen Schütt (63) from Ottobrunn:
“With the use of Christmas light decorations, I take the same view as the Bavarians do with beer consumption: it has to be moderate.
No Wies'n and no Las Vegas in the district's front yard.
In general, I would advocate more wax instead of watts for this year's festival of festivals.
Which is not to say that the Free State (including the rest of the Republic) has to sit in front of the Christmas goose with rechargeable headlamps and tea lights.
The middle way, in this case between doing without and waste, seems to me, as so often, to be the wisest at the moment.”
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Jürgen Schütt (63) from Ottobrunn
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Uwe Jentsch from Unterhaching:
“We are strictly opposed to imitating American Christmas traditions, such as excessive house lighting.
The Christ Child comes to us, modestly and quietly, just like in our childhood.
That's why we've never had a lot of lighting, just a few real candles on the Advent wreath in the living room.
We have had battery-operated LED lighting on our Christmas tree for eight years, but not because of the energy transition: there were very practical reasons for the conversion, namely the elimination of the "strips".
Since we are not even remotely endangering the power supply of the district of Munich, we are only interested in saving the Christmas lights in private households, as demanded by some political ricochets, insofar as one seriously has to ask oneself
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Uwe Jentsch from Unterhaching
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Heinrich Reichel (71), organizer of the Argeter village Christmas:
"At the "Argeter Village Christmas" this year on November 26th and 27th, there is traditionally only warm-white lighting, primarily with LEDs.
Flashing advertising or other elaborate lighting is not permitted.
Compared to other Christmas markets, we don't have long evening openings, on Saturdays only until 9 p.m. and on Sundays until 6 p.m., which of course also saves electricity.
Furthermore, neither electric heaters nor gas patio heaters are permitted in the huts.
Nevertheless, after four years now, our Christmas market will shine in atmospheric splendor.”
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Heinrich Reichel (71), organizer of the Argeter village Christmas
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Erika Hörner (62) from Ismaning:
"There will be no outside lighting on the balcony and windows this year, and we will certainly use more candlelight in the evenings.
The lighting on the Christmas tree is limited, where possible we use LED lights.
In addition, there is no longer any standby mode in the house, the light is always switched off when we leave a room, the heating is used consciously and the room temperature is lowered.
I've been preparing hot water for boiling in the tea kettle for a long time, because it's much faster than on the stove."
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Erika Hörner (62) from Ismaning
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