For those who put up christmas trees or just lights, what kind do you prefer? I am strictly a solid white lights gal, because I don't want them to detract from the ornaments. I wonder what is most popular?
NTTGPR: Christmas Tree Lights Poll 187 votes
Solid white
45%85 votes
Blinking white
2%4 votes
Solid Multicolor
25%47 votes
Blinking multicolor
3%7 votes
Whatever I'm in the mood for each year
11%21 votes
Those fancy lights that go from solid to blinking to fading, etc.
I only do white, I HATE color lights on the tree. I feel like it looks too busy. We have the lights that slowly fade in & out. I don't like blinking because again, too busy.
We have a little music box you connect the lights to and it plays Christmas songs and the lights blink in unison. We've had that thing for YEARS, and now that I host I have to use it, like my family would disown me if I don't. It's tradition! When it's just DH and I, it's solid clear lights.
I prefer the small white ones so the ornaments are the focus, but DH is adamant about big multi color bulbs. And since he usually decorates the tree while I "help" (aka drink brandy and egg nog and sing Christmas carols while half-assedly putting an ornament on here and there), he has won this debate every year for 10 years.
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I do both solid white and blinking white. I don't like all blinking bc then there are dark spots I put a bunch of solid throughout the entire tree as the main lights and then put on a couple strands of blinking.
I hate the strands that have a ton of colors. I don't mind the ones that only have two or maybe three colors for outside. Like red, green, and blue or blue and white.
I also only like the small bulbs. The big ones look gaudy.
All the color. I use the big old fashioned color lights on our small tree and regular colored lights on our big tree. I also have to either search for the old-school mini lights, or I have to get the soft LED ones. The straight up LED colored lights are waaaaay too blue-ish for my tastes. I like the warmth. Outside colored lights too. It just looks so festive.
I also in no way 'theme' my trees. We have a few cheap filler ornaments (I get rid of some every year as we collect more), but I like to use ones that H and I collect over the years, plus some from my mom and my grandmother.
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I have twinkling white lights and blue lights. The effect gives more of a "white Christmas" with my white wnd blue ornaments. This year I might switch it up to red lights and candy canes.
The color combo of white and blue came up this weekend. Someone said how Christmas-y it felt and I started laughing. Blue and white (or silver) is all Hanukah to me.
Yeah, I think Hanukkah when I see blue and white/silver lights too!
I have white lights as we bought a pre-lit tree a few years ago, but I love multi color or doing white with one other color. My mom used to do white with purple and it was always so pretty.
We bought a pre-lit tree from Costco that let's us choose all of the above! White, color, different blinking rates or solid on. I love it!
I chose SS because I have a pre-lit white light tree, and I put big and small, multi colour and white all over my pre-lit tree. I think my tree is awesome and more lights the better. I love the shaped lights too, like snow men, tardises and little yoda heads.
Tasteful is not a word to describe my tree.
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Solid multicolor lights on the tree, with lots of silver ornaments. Solid multicolor lights on the roof, and solid white wrapped around the pillars on the porch.
What can I say; I love all the pretty colors!
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We have a little music box you connect the lights to and it plays Christmas songs and the lights blink in unison. We've had that thing for YEARS, and now that I host I have to use it, like my family would disown me if I don't. It's tradition! When it's just DH and I, it's solid clear lights.
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I hate the strands that have a ton of colors. I don't mind the ones that only have two or maybe three colors for outside. Like red, green, and blue or blue and white.
I also only like the small bulbs. The big ones look gaudy.
Once kids are involved we will switch back to exterior and interior colored lights. I found plain white so boring when I was a kid.
Blinking lights would give me a damn seizure.
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I also in no way 'theme' my trees. We have a few cheap filler ornaments (I get rid of some every year as we collect more), but I like to use ones that H and I collect over the years, plus some from my mom and my grandmother.
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I HATE blinking lights.
On our tree we have red and white lights. No blinking.
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