# What's the deal with white Christmas lights lately?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-white-christmas-lights-lately/472901>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-white-christmas-lights-lately/472901 "2008-11-15T21:20:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![twit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twit)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-white-christmas-lights-lately/472901/21 "2008-11-16T22:29:41Z")

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All I do is hang up the “old-fashioned” ceramic bulb lights, the C7s, I think.

It reminds me of when we used to drive up to visit my grandparents in Wisconsin in the 1970s when lots of houses had those type of lights.

Not like now with the icicles and LED light shows. That doesn’t do it for me. I like my simple ceramic lights.

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-white-christmas-lights-lately/472901/22 "2008-11-17T04:01:35Z")

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Could it be the white lights better emulate the candles people used to use as decoration?

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