Nothing i hate more then white icicle Christmas lights…I mean if they were PURE white it would look great. But i cannot stand that yellow hue to them. I barf in my mouth everytime isee them. Now BLUE ones are great…i saw some down the street with differnt shades of blue and thought they were awesome…
That’s funny, my husband dislikes the colored lights and prefers the white ones.
Me, I think they’re all great as long as they are in moderation.
You’re insane. The colored lights look cheap and tacky - they’re the same colors as the Las Vegas strip.
White looks great.
Around here the white lights are way overdone, and IMHO, boring. I really like seeing multi-colored lights. I agree with you about the blue lights, too.
I don’t care what color they are–they just shouldn’t blink on and off. I hate that!
I prefer multicolored lights, but I don’t think white lights are ugly.
I don’t see the point of those “icicle” lights. They don’t look like icicles; they just look like what they are: random short lengths of white lights. Real icicles are solid. But I don’t hate those lights, and anyone who does like them will get no objection from me.
I just wouldn’t buy icicle lights or regular white lights.
I do hate the lights that blink in patterns. I’d like to find lights that blink individually. That’s a bit like stars twinkling.
I like white lights, and I don’t mind coloured lights. I’m not crazy about the new LED lights. They just don’t like “right” to me–dim and depressing.
I think that the all-white lights are totally boring.
I think all Christmas lights are ugly.
I waffle. White lights are elegant and tasteful, and boring. Colored lights are too much, and fun. Which I guess is why I only have star lamps in my windows.
I do like the blue lights, but they can be overdone too. Also I find them hard to see, as if they are just at the edge of my vision spectrum. It’s a weird feeling.
I have my room decorated with several strands of blue lights. They make for a cooling, soothing feeling that is just bright enough to illuminate the room, but not quite bright enough to read (so I still have an overhead light for that). I’ve never been fond of Christmas lights in general, especially the multicolored ones, but I sure do love blue lights.
There was a time when all-blue lights were fashionable, and it got to look kind of depressing. I like multi-colored ones. You can get ones that blink at random, but I don’t like them. The “chaser” lights are fun, in moderation. On our house we just put up clear white lights wound around the front porch columns. Later on, on the tree, we’ll put up multicolors.
In Thailand, Christmas lights are used to festoon coffins and in various other areas during funerals. Takes some getting used.
I have exactly the opposite opinion. I looooove the white christmas lights, and I think those blue things are horrible. My husband loves them all, though, so we’ve got some blue ones and green ones and mixed colors along with my beloved white strands.
I can’t stand the blue ones - they look like wintermint, which used to be known as wintergreen, which tastes like Pepto-Bismol and therefore makes me barf. Hope you followed all that. Anyway, the upshot is that the blue lights literally make me feel queasy, due to an unfortunate set of associations.
I like small multicolored, I love small whites. I don’t like the large multicolored ones at all. Just too dated looking.
I saw something tonight I can’t decide if I liked or not - some sort of sleeve wrap of small red and white lights, spaced so that they made large red and white stripes around a good sized tree - like a giant old fashioned peppermint stick. At first I thought it was weird, but the third time I drove by it (errands), it was starting to grow on me.
I like all the single-colored schemes. Blue, green, white; as long as it isn’t multi-colored, I like it.
I like black light Christmas lights.
And these are cool, too.
The only ones I really object to are:
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Chaser lights. I shouldn’t have to fear developing epilepsy just driving down the street.
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Multicolor “icicle” lights. At least the idea that the clear/white lights = icicles makes some sense. But who ever heard of red, green, blue, pink, and yellow icicles? These make me grit my teeth.
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People who just randomly wind a string of lights through a bush or tree, creating a lumpy, haphazard shape when they are lit up at night. C’mon, people, at least try a little.
I have a front yard for the first time this year. I’m thinking I should get some really tacky plastic reindeer or something.
Yeah. What he (?) said.
99% of Christmas lights on houses look cheap and tacky no matter what colour they are!