# Blinking Lights Or Non-Blinking Lights On Christmas Trees **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724 "2009-12-02T18:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/21 "2009-12-03T14:24:48Z")
Blinking lights are an abomination. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/22 "2009-12-03T14:36:05Z")
Non blinking on a tree, since I have to look at it all the time, and the blinking ones drive me nuts. Blinking is fine on outdoor displays, though, I just don’t like being stuck in the same room with it. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/23 "2009-12-03T16:55:33Z")
Twinkling lights, where a few bulbs on the string randomly blink at different intervals, are nice. Regular blinking lights are awful. I can’t stand when you see a house that used blinking _and_ non-blinking lights to, say, trim the roofline. Half the roofline blinks and the other stays solid. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/24 "2009-12-03T18:02:03Z")
Solid ON/OFF/ON/OFF blinking seems jarring to me but I find some variation in the brightness looks pretty. I had some lights that I used at my store that had a few different settings. My two favorite options were “slow fade” and “twinkling”. If I could find those again I’d like them on my tree, but I’m a cheapskate and as long as there’s nothing wrong with the lights I already own I won’t be shopping for new ones. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/25 "2009-12-03T18:56:02Z")
Another person for both. A set of blinking lights to be turned on just _occasionally,_ and non-blinking for the rest of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/26 "2009-12-03T18:59:59Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > So far as traditional lights go, it’s definitely non-blinking. The new, fancy lights that can do various sorts of fade-in/fade-out “twinkling,” though–those are very cool. Bingo – I string our tree with solid lights, and add one or two strings of slow-fade lights as well. They compliment each other nicely, and the effect doesn’t have the harshness of blinking lights. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724/27 "2009-12-04T03:35:08Z")
I like a mix. But I really, REALLY hate the lights that blink in sync or in patterns. I much prefer individually blinking lights. They’re hard to find, though, so I usually go with non-blinking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinking-lights-or-non-blinking-lights-on-christmas-trees/519724.md?page=1)