Do you prefer white or colored Christmas tree lights?

Coloured.

Also, the colored we’re not allowed to be in my neighborhood until 1973.

Wow, your friends really sound like they have the true Christmas spirit.

I detest monochromatic Christmas tree lights, regardless of the color.

Multicolor lights are ok but the a nice warm golden glow is pretty.

R3 i’m thinking of one guy in particular. He’s so uptight that he won’t even burp in front of his husband. He goes to another room to burp.

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I like white but honestly Christmas is a pretty tacky holiday. Nothing wrong with happy colored lights twinkling away on the tree on or the house.

Your friends sound like assholes, OP. You can do better.

Do you like colored lights? Then you put up colored lights.

If your alleged friends have an issue, instruct them to take down the lights, purchase white ones, reimburse you for the colored ones and install the new ones to your exact specifications.

I despise the current LED lights, they are so tacky and not at all magical.

“It’s very ’80s ‘Dynasty,’ ” Mr. Doonan wrote in an e-mail, referring to the evening soap opera. “People who are pathological about white lights are usually the same people who stuff their TV into an armoire and try to pretend they don’t have one.”

Colored lights, by contrast, Mr. Doonan said, are “beautiful and magical” and carnival-like.

“When I pass a suburban house festooned with twinkly colored fairy lights,” Mr. Doonan wrote, “I always scream ‘Bravo’ out of the window of my car.”

Multi-colored lights are the best!! No boring clear lights!!

WOW!! That French bottle of wine was really good!! I go to open another one,

Thanks OP!!

Girls, you're both the prettiest

Colored-American, OP.

The most headache-inducing of all are the blue and cold white Hannukah displays

I have some sets from the 80s and 90s that I still use. Am I going to have a house fire?

All red, of course.

I like multi-colored on the tree and then single color - red, white, blue or green - for outside.

I confess that I can't quite explain this preference.

I love the big, clunky old-fashioned multi-colored lights on houses, but they are getting increasingly rare.

Christmas just isn't what it used to be...

OP, the term is “multi-colored,” not “colored” — unless you’re referring to black lights.

R20 Oh no, the correct term for black light is “lights of color.” “Colored lights” is extremely offensive but for some reason in the 2020s “lights of color” is okay.

Multi colored lights, always.

Warm light, same colour. None of that multi-coloured crap for kids.

My mother always used warm white lights so I grew up used to that. I don’t mind color lights, though, and prefer them if big bulbs are used.

I like blue.

Jungle Red!

crisp white, no blinking on a natural tree.

I am not opposed to bright blue lights on a silver fake tree. still no blinking though.

I like the multi-colored lights that have the screw-in bulbs

I like the light that is black on red Tree.

A silver aluminum tree with a rotating color wheel under it looks spectacular compared to a green tree with boring, white string lights on it.

I think they are equal.

Just be sure to keep them separated.

Colored, definitely.

Tell your snotty friend for me, it’s warm, multicolored lights or nothing.

We saved our sanity by buying an artificial tree that has both options. Actually, it has a blinking option as well-switching from white to multicolor, like it’s bipolar. We ignore that choice. He likes non-blinking white, I like non-blinking multicolor. We switch nights, with usually no discord.

And we lived happily ever after, or at least through 2024.

Discovered Philips ‘’Concave’’? 100 lt. string. Tiny lights w/ 9 motion effects including glisten AND twinkle They’re really great in white and color-indoor/outdoor.

#Christmassowhite

The colored ones are so big and powerful. They last longer too.

Both, but I do keep mine segregated.

- Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Colored. All white reminds me of 2001.

My trees are racist, I guess.

All white because, well, that's what we have.

Team white.

Warm white. Or, green.

A tasteful medley of pastels.

Colored ones, unless it's just all blue. I hate when people do that.

I usually put white lights close to the trunk because they’re brighter and color lights on the branches.

White, non-twinkling only on my tree.

Colored. Plain white lights are for people who are tying to be fancy and most likely grew up poor. Think the yuppie couple in National Lampoon Christmas Vacation.

[quote] Team white

(Predominantly) white team.

That sounds like a great idea, R45.

Racists

r44 is anti-Semitic

I vont all red rights like my home district.

If they’re hanging then definitely colored.

Either colored or all white lights can be arranged & co-decorated tastefully.

I do miss the all multicolored lights of my youth, however. And the anticipation of the presents under the tree.

I had/have questionable to decent parents, but they both made sure we had a beautiful Christmas. 🎄

We do a beautiful tree; Full base of classic white twinkle lights. Overlay of colored balls. Gorgeous. Try it.

We did all white lights with red & white ornaments this year, R55.

It’s nice. Wish it had been a bit taller & wider.

Oh well. It’s perfectly fine as is.

But why are they Italian Christmas lights?

Only white

Colorred, big 1950-era lights.

It depends - SOME multi-color lights look good, but many are just tacky. It depends on the decorations.

Single color white is classic - but it needs a contrast.

Single color blue, red, green - fucking awful usually. However, I've seen it done well - but it's rare.

As a general rule for me - the average person doesn't care as long as it's festive. But I've seen a lot of cheap and tacky Christmas displays - we all have. More is not more.

I prefer them Cuban.

White vs. colored... hmmm....

Depends on desired effect. White, calm meditative or bright, festive, happy.

LED lights are of the devil

I find my tree looks best with strings of white lights and strings of multicolored lights. (The tree itself is pre-lit with white lights, and I add the others manually.)

Do any of you bitches still use tinsel?

The idea that white lights are "classy" is so trite and so middlebrow, I can't believe that people are still clinging to that notion.

I think it also depends on the hues of the multicolored lights, which can vary dramatically. Some look better to me than others.

I really miss the mid-century C7 and C9 lights with the enamel. It's total nostalgia. The new LED C7 and C9's have this rought texture that's transparent and I really can't latch onto it, and I think that's what many of you are referring to. I did see some enamel LED version sets, on Amazon, but they were sold out.

I like any kind of lights - the only thing thats horrendous are those stupid inflatables.

My entire neighbourhood is colored

I was surprised to learn the other day that most Americans—around 85 percent—who have Christmas trees have fake ones.

[quote]Do any of you bitches still use tinsel?

If it's good enough for Arlene, it's good enough for me.

C9 ceramic type colored lights are magnificent. T

he irony is that your friends are nouveau riche, aren't they

Colored lights are for Catholics.

Colourful lights! Clear lights are for lighting street trees in the summer.

I bought 6 sets of the old ceramic lights 3 or 4 years ago but I haven’t used them yet. This years theme is minimal.

“Colored lights” sounds like Stanley Kowalski talking about his sex life.

R78 real vintage or reproduction?

I love the old sets, but I'm afraid of fires. I've thought about getting Tru-tones, but they would cost a bomb in shipping to my country.

I still have my grandmother’s 1940’s, I think, bubble lights. That’s what we called them, anyway. Green base, gold liquid, red rising bubbles. Way smaller but like little proto lava lamps you string on the tree. I would be nervous leaving the room when they were lit. You can’t trust the wiring when it’s 75 years old. And you don’t want to unplug the tree every time you get up.

They don't have to be white, but I do like it when they're all one color.

Did someone say "colored lights"?

Infrared.

Black.

[quote] My snottiest friends say that colored lights are tacky and they should be white.

Your snotty friends remind me of Melania Trump ripping out the coloured roses for white ones.

Ultraviolet

My grandmother used to have those multi-color big ole screw-in Christmas lights on her tree. One year, she got a new artificial tree and the damn bulbs got so hot they melted the branches. That's the year she switched to the miniature lights.

Well...

Trafalgar Square tree looks like an ear of corn. Probably should have picked a different color.

Blue is the current color trend according to Christmas designers.

Horrid