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Do you like white lights or colored lights on your tree? I like the like the white lights.especially the twinkling (Original Post) debm55 Dec 2024 OP
Color on tree, white lights thru out house... Color or white outside depending. LizBeth Dec 2024 #1
Thank you LizBeth. debm55 Dec 2024 #4
Colored, definitely!!! CrispyQ Dec 2024 #2
Thank you CristyQ. debm55 Dec 2024 #5
We just set parts of it on fire. Natural light. underpants Dec 2024 #3
Oh underpants. Natural light would come from the sun or stars. debm55 Dec 2024 #6
And what are those? underpants Dec 2024 #27
Don't understand the question? I am talking about natural lignt.in the sky. you are talking about a fire that would debm55 Dec 2024 #30
I once put blue, white and green bulbs and lights on my parents' applegrove Dec 2024 #7
Me too. Thank you applegrove. debm55 Dec 2024 #8
When I was a kid... Dulcinea Dec 2024 #11
We had outdoor lights in the same blue/green palate. applegrove Dec 2024 #13
Yhat sounds very nice. Thank you Dulcinea. debm55 Dec 2024 #15
Colored lights. Dulcinea Dec 2024 #9
Thank you Dulcinea debm55 Dec 2024 #10
Warm white lights Hassler Dec 2024 #12
Thank you Hassler. debm55 Dec 2024 #16
Colored, non-twinkling lights. catbyte Dec 2024 #14
Thank you catbyte. I understand. debm55 Dec 2024 #17
White lights only. Lonestarblue Dec 2024 #18
Thank you Lonestarblue. debm55 Dec 2024 #21
Colored, blinking lights on the tree. Different Drummer Dec 2024 #19
Thank you Different Drummer Great choices. debm55 Dec 2024 #22
Had disagreement with Mr. D. He wanted colored lights, I wanted white twinkly lights Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 #20
Way to go. Thank you Diamond_Dog debm55 Dec 2024 #23
Now that's the way to compromise...LOL hlthe2b Dec 2024 #25
I told him he can put up whatever kind of lights he wants outside. Lol Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 #26
Yes it is . debm55 Dec 2024 #31
... Niagara Dec 2024 #38
If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody... 3catwoman3 Dec 2024 #59
Color OR WARM WHITE lights. I can't stand those icy white white (blue undertone) lights... hlthe2b Dec 2024 #24
White lights on the tree with old fashion bubble lights surfered Dec 2024 #28
You years I looked for bubble lights I found them at wal marts. They were in old fashioned boxes. I loved them as a kid debm55 Dec 2024 #32
The bubble lights - do they look like transparent candles w a base, and ... electric_blue68 Dec 2024 #44
Yes the bulbs were clear. the liquid inside was colored. As the colored liquid in the bulb got hot it would bubble. debm55 Dec 2024 #48
Thanks, yup, that's them. electric_blue68 Dec 2024 #61
Warm white leds, not the cold colored ones, with colorful ornaments on the tree, colored lights here and there on other diane in sf Dec 2024 #29
Good luck diane in sf trying to figure it out. It sounds like it will be beautuful. Thank you debm55 Dec 2024 #34
I like to mix things up each year Niagara Dec 2024 #33
Thank you Niagara. Your tree will be beautiful. debm55 Dec 2024 #35
Thank you and you're welcome, Debbie Niagara Dec 2024 #36
White ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #37
Thank you ProfessorGAC That sounds beautiful debm55 Dec 2024 #39
I like colored lights but we have white on the tree dwayneb Dec 2024 #40
HAHAHHAHAH, Thank you dwayneb debm55 Dec 2024 #41
It varies from year to year. woodsprite Dec 2024 #42
Woodsprite. thank you for your post. I really like the led tha changes colors and intensity. Sounds like a great idea debm55 Dec 2024 #43
Yes, colored lights onto the tinsel is lovely! electric_blue68 Dec 2024 #46
Colored lights. My mom wanted to try all blue, but we never did... electric_blue68 Dec 2024 #45
Thank you electric_blue68 , it sounds beautiful. debm55 Dec 2024 #49
Thank you electric_blue68 , it sounds beautiful. debm55 Dec 2024 #50
I like both. arkielib Dec 2024 #47
Thank you arkielib. Great fun for the grandkids. debm55 Dec 2024 #51
Multicolored lights. Before LED lights, my family always used assorted color bulb sets. Eugene Dec 2024 #52
Thank you Eugene. debm55 Dec 2024 #56
We use colored lights. Elessar Zappa Dec 2024 #53
Thank you very much. Elessar Zappa debm55 Dec 2024 #57
I like colored lights on the main tree. LisaM Dec 2024 #54
Thank you LisaM. At one time I had 8 trees for every room in my house. debm55 Dec 2024 #58
Usually white... justaprogressive Dec 2024 #55
Thank you very much justaprogressive. It sounds beautiful. debm55 Dec 2024 #60
White lights on the indoor, prelit artificial tree, non-twinkling. 3catwoman3 Dec 2024 #62

CrispyQ

(39,367 posts)
2. Colored, definitely!!!
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:27 PM
Dec 2024

There's noting like being stoned with pretty Christmas lights! Maybe a with a half gallon of peppermint ice cream, too.

debm55

(43,872 posts)
30. Don't understand the question? I am talking about natural lignt.in the sky. you are talking about a fire that would
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:42 PM
Dec 2024

destroy the tree and animals living in the area or the tree.IMO

applegrove

(125,407 posts)
7. I once put blue, white and green bulbs and lights on my parents'
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:33 PM
Dec 2024

Christmas tree. I was going for a theme. My dad walked in and said "Put the red bulbs and lights back on the tree". He didn't get my artistic expression at all.

I like the white fairy lights that twinkle.

Dulcinea

(8,118 posts)
11. When I was a kid...
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:38 PM
Dec 2024

...there was a family on our street that used only green & blue lights outdoors. I thought it was pretty & distinctive.

applegrove

(125,407 posts)
13. We had outdoor lights in the same blue/green palate.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:41 PM
Dec 2024

They were sort of hung on some ancient cedar trees about half way up. I never got what my mother was going for but lights are never wrong.

Dulcinea

(8,118 posts)
9. Colored lights.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:37 PM
Dec 2024

Every house in the neighborhood looks the same with all white lights. Just my opinion.

catbyte

(36,647 posts)
14. Colored, non-twinkling lights.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:43 PM
Dec 2024

Light can trigger a migraine, especially blinking ones so those are a deal-breaker for me. The white lights are pretty but even the mini lights are too bright for me.

Diamond_Dog

(36,462 posts)
20. Had disagreement with Mr. D. He wanted colored lights, I wanted white twinkly lights
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 04:56 PM
Dec 2024

So we compromised and got white twinkly lights

hlthe2b

(108,924 posts)
24. Color OR WARM WHITE lights. I can't stand those icy white white (blue undertone) lights...
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:05 PM
Dec 2024

surfered

(5,880 posts)
28. White lights on the tree with old fashion bubble lights
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:10 PM
Dec 2024

Colored lights around the fireplace and outside

debm55

(43,872 posts)
32. You years I looked for bubble lights I found them at wal marts. They were in old fashioned boxes. I loved them as a kid
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:50 PM
Dec 2024

on my grandmother's tree. Now I have my own.Thank you for bringing back those memories for me.

electric_blue68

(20,603 posts)
44. The bubble lights - do they look like transparent candles w a base, and ...
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 12:34 AM
Dec 2024

the liquid inside bubbles up?

If so my cousin had them like 60 - 50 yrs back.

debm55

(43,872 posts)
48. Yes the bulbs were clear. the liquid inside was colored. As the colored liquid in the bulb got hot it would bubble.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 12:53 PM
Dec 2024

diane in sf

(4,147 posts)
29. Warm white leds, not the cold colored ones, with colorful ornaments on the tree, colored lights here and there on other
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:15 PM
Dec 2024

decorated areas in the house. I have one of those laser light things and I’m trying to figure out where to put it to shine up at my palm trees in the front yard in a place where it won’t be stolen. Too many nasty little high school kids and thieves walking by.

debm55

(43,872 posts)
34. Good luck diane in sf trying to figure it out. It sounds like it will be beautuful. Thank you
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:54 PM
Dec 2024

Niagara

(10,414 posts)
33. I like to mix things up each year
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 05:53 PM
Dec 2024

Last year it was the multicolored lights on the tree, this year it's going to be warm white lights.

ProfessorGAC

(72,149 posts)
37. White
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 08:56 PM
Dec 2024

Well, mostly.
We have all white lights on our yes & boxwoods all across the front yard.
But, on the south side of the yard we have a row of boxwoods that grew together into one continuous, curved 22' hedge.
Those are covered in blue LED lights, just to have something different.

dwayneb

(972 posts)
40. I like colored lights but we have white on the tree
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:58 PM
Dec 2024

It's a small price to pay to keep peace in the house.

woodsprite

(12,380 posts)
42. It varies from year to year.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 12:08 AM
Dec 2024

I like the twinkle setting that fades every other light on/off but we’ve had a hard time finding that type. We bought new led lights last year - warm white that could be switched to several different color settings, then you could change the color intensity from full 100% down to 20 or 25%.

I love copious lights on our tree. I like how the lights reflect in the tinsel I insist we use 🤩.

debm55

(43,872 posts)
43. Woodsprite. thank you for your post. I really like the led tha changes colors and intensity. Sounds like a great idea
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 12:14 AM
Dec 2024

electric_blue68

(20,603 posts)
45. Colored lights. My mom wanted to try all blue, but we never did...
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 12:41 AM
Dec 2024

When I lived in Brooklyn one of our brownstone further down, and across the street on the 4th floor had all ?cerulean blue lights.
Very pretty, and I thought of my mom.

arkielib

(394 posts)
47. I like both.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 11:10 AM
Dec 2024

We had always used white lights on the tree and throughout the house until we got grandchildren. They like the colored lights, so that's what we have now!

Eugene

(64,198 posts)
52. Multicolored lights. Before LED lights, my family always used assorted color bulb sets.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 01:04 PM
Dec 2024

Nowadays, multicolor LED strips. Never used white.

LisaM

(29,086 posts)
54. I like colored lights on the main tree.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 01:09 PM
Dec 2024

But I like to have a smaller tree in the corner with just white lights (I'd have 50 trees if I could!)

3catwoman3

(26,455 posts)
62. White lights on the indoor, prelit artificial tree, non-twinkling.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 02:58 PM
Dec 2024

I put lights on 25+ bushes and trees outside.

*back yard:
- a flamingo willow gets green string lights wrapped around the trunk and a few of the lower branches, and steady multi-colored string lights around the whole circumference of the upper branches and looks rather like a large lollipop
- 5 small bushes around the base of a maple tree get steady green string lights
- 3 arbovitae are also wrapped in steady green string lights and topped with bright white twinkling snow flakes
- 4 little I-don't-know-what-they-are bushes in front of the arbovitae get draped in steady multi net lights
- the maple tree has a warm white twinkling buck deer standing by it and the arbovitae have a doe and baby deer standing by them/ the baby deer is looking up at his mother, and the doe is looking toward the buck

*front yard:
- a big burning bush is wrapped in at least 8 strings of twinkling multi-colored lights and looks kind of like a giant gumdrop
- all the remaining small bushes in front of our bay windows are a mix of multi and white net lights

*the bay windows get electric candles in them

My deer are the Phillips brand carried at Target, and I like them because they have eyes and noses and look more like real deer, in a Disney sort of way, than the kind with no facial features. See link below.

https://www.target.com/p/philips-27-4-34-led-glitter-string-fawn-novelty-sculpture-light-pure-white-twinkle/-/A-81565428?sid=&ref=tgt_adv_xsp&AFID=google&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000

I love Christmas lights!

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