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Coloured Christmas tree lights

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Dogspawssmellofcheetos · 13/12/2023 22:34

Are they back in/never went out?

Ive noticed three different Christmas trees in well to do 🤷🏻‍♀️😂homes recently and they look really nice.
I grew up with them as an 80’s kid, but only ever have used the plain yellow/white lights

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ChoupetteTheCat · 17/12/2023 09:24

Iwantmyoldnameback · 17/12/2023 08:50

I'm disgusted that Balsam Hill sell pre lit trees with coloured lights. I thought getting a BH tree would make me MC but now I find out the coloured lights make me WC. Shall I just not plug it in then?

You're going to need therapy for this one. 😆

Iwantmyoldnameback · 17/12/2023 08:50

I'm disgusted that Balsam Hill sell pre lit trees with coloured lights. I thought getting a BH tree would make me MC but now I find out the coloured lights make me WC. Shall I just not plug it in then?

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 16/12/2023 00:32

I have coloured lights and warm white lights. I have all the colours on my tree - I actively dislike the curated, symmetrical, 'tasteful' look. I want my tree to reflect how I like Christmas to be - fun! I do wish they'd stop putting blue light in though. Blue is not Christmas!

I wish I had some of the lights my mum had though. She had these fabulous fibreoptic ones when I was a kid - like these but I only remember the hairy bits being on one side.

Vintage retro fibre optic Pifco Fantasy Christmas Tree Lights Working | eBay

<p>Vintage retro fibre optic Pifco Fantasy Christmas Tree Lights Working. No box, but a fully working set of lights in lovely condition </p>

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334879703446

Bournetilly · 16/12/2023 00:03

We went shopping for lights 2 years ago, I wanted warm white but they were out of stock and only had colourful or bright white left. DH wanted colourful anyway and I don’t like bright white so we got colourful.

I wasn’t keen on the idea at first but now I love colourful. They are so much nicer and the kids love them. I love the houses with all the colourful lights outside, makes the ones with white icicles look boring (I used to love just white icicles but now it’s all about the colour).

Stickytreacle · 15/12/2023 23:54

The colours are more pink in rl.

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Stickytreacle · 15/12/2023 23:51

I've had coloured lights for the past three years

KellyMarieTunstall2 · 15/12/2023 23:11

I've bought some multi colored lights this year and I love them. It's nostalgic, I'm a 70s/80s child and it makes me remember happy childhood Christmases.

Notfeelinghunkydory · 15/12/2023 22:51

I have vintage coloured lights and coloured LED lights. I love them. Have always had coloured lights and always will.

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furtivetussling · 15/12/2023 22:50

Grumpsy · 13/12/2023 23:33

What I do wish would disappear are those migraine inducing luminous LED blue (just blue not multicoloured) ones that look like a police car is in the house.

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Outdoor blue ones are horrid, especially when you are driving late at night and you see a flashing blue glow in the distance.

MereDintofPandiculation · 15/12/2023 22:48

Mistressofnone · 13/12/2023 22:45

Same! The ones that get really hot to touch and have the fuse bulb on the end. They have a vintage charm. The new coloured LED ones are a little too vibrant.

I'm all for tinsel and foil ceiling decs too.

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And all those happy hours spent unscrewing and replacing each bulb in turn till you find the one that's blown. Then finding that it's obviously two that have gone, so repeat replacing all possible pairs of bulbs.

Takacupokindnessyet · 15/12/2023 22:25

Never went out

QueenMegan · 15/12/2023 22:23

Never realised lights were in or out.

My daughter did our tree and she just used red and white non flashing looks posh but I miss the flashing tacky lights

TheDogIsInCharge · 15/12/2023 22:18

youngones1 · 14/12/2023 17:11

Coloured Christmas lights are as working class as pit bulls and tattoos.

Does a lurcher and tattoo (singular) count?

Well pleased.

ChoupetteTheCat · 14/12/2023 19:41

not4profit · 14/12/2023 19:32

Second time lucky

That's a beautiful tree 🌲

not4profit · 14/12/2023 19:32

Second time lucky

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 14/12/2023 19:30

youngones1 · 14/12/2023 17:11

Coloured Christmas lights are as working class as pit bulls and tattoos.

The thing is, the folk pretending to be MC will have white ones and still go to work in the morning 🤣

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 14/12/2023 19:28

I love our coloured lights. Plain ones are super boring

not4profit · 14/12/2023 19:28

Time to add a pic

Sallyingon · 14/12/2023 19:26

I wish they would invent less harsh leds. I have a thousand coloured LEDs on our tree. It's hard to look at with the naked eye and photographs very blue. My ideal scenario would be 600 soft twinkly coloured LEDs. I'm really pleased they are back in fashion.

Wellhellooooodear · 14/12/2023 18:57

We have coloured outside and warm white on the tree but we have a lot of random coloured decorations so certainly not a designer tree

MistyGreenAndBlue · 14/12/2023 18:54

youngones1 · 14/12/2023 17:11

Coloured Christmas lights are as working class as pit bulls and tattoos.

Spoken like a true MC social climber

😂

Fyi the poshest woman I ever knew (I was dating her son in the '90s and they were RICH rich) had multi coloured Christmas lights up - as did my VERY MC grandparents throughout my entire young life.

No pitbulls or tattoos to be found on any of them.

Myridiculousstomach · 14/12/2023 18:37

I don’t like LED coloured lights at all - they really jar. They’re over bright and make my head and eyes sore. But I did love proper old fashioned coloured lights. They were so twinkly and warm and soft. And a massive fire hazard, I know. I wish there was a way of replicating that look with LEDs but there doesn’t seem to be.

AlwaysForksAndMarbles · 14/12/2023 18:37

youngones1 · 14/12/2023 17:11

Coloured Christmas lights are as working class as pit bulls and tattoos.

Interesting take. What do you think caused the inferiority complex which results in your making comments like this? Ironically, they lack class.

Garman · 14/12/2023 18:28

We’ve always had them, I don’t see how colours are tacky, they’re certainly more festive and fun than plain white.

Iloveabaileys · 14/12/2023 18:24

Same here why on earth do Christmas lights become a class issue and who bloody cares . It's Christmas FFS . Throw the tinsel around chuck joy up everywhere in your house . Ignore the colourful light haters 😂😂