Why would you put a tree in your living room??

Don’t forget to light your menorah before sundown today

Another reason Hanukkah feels better than Christmas – Never a silent night among Jewish families.

After hosting the fourth night of Hanukkah,

now is the time to figure out how to send all the mishpokhe home.

Adam Sandler had nothing better to do than to update his song yet again – Chanukah Song Part 4 –

It’s run by a big eastern syndicate, you know.

The Hanukkah Sessions: Night Four Kurstin x Grohl: –

Tonight Dave celebrated the other famous Canadian Jewish singer – Peaches.

Harmonica for Hanukkah Ella Jenkins–

8 Days (of Hanukkah) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings –

Remember, let’s leave that Manischewitz on the shelf.

How to light your Hanukkah Candles –

(Psst – From Left to Right)

Illuminating The Maccabeats –

They really are such nice boys (although they are getting a little long in the tooth.)

Today’s second theme – Christmas Light Shows:

According to the Gallup Poll, the percentage of Americans who celebrate Christmas has leveled off to approximately 93%. This means there are approximately 119,458,500 households in the United States that celebrate the holiday. While not every home in the U.S. that celebrates Christmas decorates with extravagant lighting, many of them do.

Electricity use in the United States in 2020 was still more than 13 times greater than electricity use in 1950. Locally, New Jersey uses 43,637,794 MW over the holiday season. The entire state can use about the same amount of electricity for their lights as all of Hong Kong (43,140,000 MW) uses in a year. New York uses 99,521,135 MW over the holiday season. Or, just slightly less than Vietnam uses in energy over an entire year (101,000,000 MW).

Today, it cost the country $3,760,000,000 per day and $170,096,150,000 for the whole 45-day holiday season. This would have Americans using 30 million MW of electricity just on Christmas lights. An average American home can use 42,000 watts (42 kW) of electricity per hour in order to power their home Christmas lights, or 300 kWh per day, with the lights only being on seven hours a night. This comes to 13,227 kW or 13.0 MW per home over the holiday season, costing a typical household about $10 extra a month to light their household Christmas decorations. Some extreme household decorators can spend an extra $2,000 to light their displays!

It’s nice to see that the public is helping support the public utilities. You know that they are barely eking out a living.

Demand Euphoria!