As much as I LOVE picture frames, there is one type of picture frame that we choose not to offer on our website – digital picture frames.

Digital picture frames, if you haven’t seen them in stores, are electronic picture frames that allow you to display digital photos. The problem I personally have with digital picture frames, is that they require electricity and must be plugged in 24×7 if you plan to use them. Call me old fashioned, but this seems extremely wasteful when they are better energy-free options available. However, until now, I never really understood how much energy they used.

According to the Electronic Power Institute, if every home in America had ONE digital picture frame left on day and night (which is typical), it would require us to build FIVE NEW 250 -megawatt power plants. I don’t know about you but to me that screams wasteful.

It was really shocking to me that just one digital frame in every household could make such a horrible impact. So, the next time you think about buying a digital picture frame, think about the difference that you can make by NOT buying one…as together we can eliminate the need for this wasteful use of electricity.

And if that isn’t enough to convince you, think about the money you can save, by not having a picture frame plugged in all the time. For example,  in the average American household, 75% of the electricity used for electronic devices is used when the devices are shut off. According to the US Department of Energy, this energy used on electronic devices shut off translates to more than $100 per year spent on essentially nothing.

So, save money and be green by displaying your pictures in non-electrical metal picture frames and wood picture frames