# Who else thinks white christmas lights are ugly? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152 "2008-12-07T19:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phedre\_no\_Delaunay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phedre_no_Delaunay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/41 "2008-12-09T20:14:16Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > I find white lights to be bland and nouveau-yuppie (“We got the McMansion and the 2.4 children and fancy HDTV flat panel TV and tastefully trendy bland neutral decorations inside, so we must be classy and use all white lights for Christmas”). This! So boring and unoriginal. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/42 "2008-12-10T02:53:40Z")
White lights are nice enough, I guess. If you’re into that sort of thing. Personally, I’m not. I just don’t feel like they have a lot of personality. They’re the Martha Stewart of lighting–tasteful and refined and perfectly coordinated, but a little frosty and rigid and kind of bland. I prefer the multicolored lights. They’re more like Julia Child–maybe a little loud, maybe kind of tacky, but full of life and heart. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/43 "2008-12-10T06:35:29Z")
My dad still has some of those giant C9 colored bulbs from when I was a kid, and it makes me smile whenever he hauls them out. White or colored can each be nice, it’s all in how you use them. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/44 "2008-12-10T06:54:03Z")
> [@Boscibo](#): > > White lights are generic, boring and soulless. The neighborhoods full of McMansions around here must have a white light only clause, because you have tons of boring cookie cutter houses with the same boring white lights. Yawn. > > Gimme colored lights any day! They are more joyful and magical. Yes. This. Give me color. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/45 "2008-12-10T07:58:55Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Back in the eastern 'burbs of Cleveland, white and blue lights are usually displayed by Jewish households. It’s something that fits in with the holiday light displays of surrounding neighbors, yet doesn’t betray their Jewish heritage. Wait, so their religion is for white and blue LEDs, but against red and green and orange incandescents? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/46 "2008-12-10T12:21:18Z")
Multicolored only. They just look Christmassy. The white lights, besides being bland and boring, look like something a restaurant with outdoor seating would hang on the patio fence in summer: i.e. no relation to the holidays. ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/47 "2008-12-10T13:51:29Z")
> [@neutron\_star](#): > > Wait, so their religion is for white and blue LEDs, but against red and green and orange incandescents? I don’t get it. You haven’t noticed blue and white being Hannukah-y colors? There’s no mandatory color scheme for Hannukah, but blue and white have been popular since they are the colors of the Israeli flag. Plus, sometimes when Jewish kids feel left out because Christian kids are celebrating Christmas with lights and presents and decorations, it’s nice to be able to have some light strands outside on your house, too. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/48 "2008-12-10T15:03:17Z")
My folks have white lights on their tree, but that’s because my mom has collected a lot of red ornaments over the years, and the white lights contrast nicely with the red ornaments. We used to have multicolored lights when I was a kid, though. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152/49 "2008-12-11T01:31:46Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > You haven’t noticed blue and white being Hannukah-y colors? There’s no mandatory color scheme for Hannukah, but blue and white have been popular since they are the colors of the Israeli flag. > > Plus, sometimes when Jewish kids feel left out because Christian kids are celebrating Christmas with lights and presents and decorations, it’s nice to be able to have some light strands outside on your house, too. Ah, okay. Thanks. Not many Jewish people around here, so I hadn’t made the connection. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-thinks-white-christmas-lights-are-ugly/476152.md?page=2)