Outdoor flashing Christmas lights are obnoxious & tacky

I actually laughed out loud at 'aggressive christmas lights'

I love to see tacky lights. The more ghastly the better

I thought this thread was about FLASHING lights being ‘obnoxious and tacky’? Lots of people posting about their coloured lights, inflatables and whatnot to defend them. I think most of us have said we like all sorts of styles (except blue, quite a few saying never blue to be fair) - but many find FLASHING lights to be unpleasant or disruptive (I’m avoiding the word tacky myself)

I love all things tacky at Christmas! I can't wait until my grandkids spot my waving Santa in the front garden when they arrive. Merry Christmas everyone!

I put up Christmas lights because my kids like them.

Couldn't give a fuck if joyless bastards think they are tacky.

Some lights start on demo mode every time and do crazy flashing unless you press the button a few times. The button is usually outside, so people don't change it.

Personally, I don't use them if I accidentally buy some that do this because I cba to go outside and press the button. Other people just leave them doing random flashing.

The neighbours across from me have left them on demo mode and have a massive projection of snowflakes that somehow keeps ending up reflecting onto my windows. It is awful.

My Xmas feel wants to be narnia old bbc series. I Want that feeling of walking through the door and seeing the trees and flickering lamp light tumnus cosy cottage/crumpets, hot choclate wind in the willows and animal footprint in the snow.

All these flashing displays are very florida, Disney loud and cheery.
Nothing wrong with that at all but I suspect it suits florida more than uk. Also depends on the housing stock I guess more modern houses suit these displays.

FREE FROSTY

I hate blue lights but other than that go for what you like!

I LOVE Christmas lights, the tackier the better. But I really don't like the very bright flashing ones because they make me feel a bit ill. The blue ones are the worst.
(DH has of course bought some blue lights but at least I can stop them flashing. They aren't up this year, I think he's forgotten where he put them😁)

Don’t mind lights. I don’t like the inflatables that are deflated much of the time blowing everywhere. 😂

I like lights and don’t really care what colours they are, but I hate it when they flash!

Gentle twinkling is fine, but the speedy flashing is a migraine trigger for me and I can’t stand looking at them for long!

The paradox of calling out tackiness is that in doing so you become tacky.

And now I am tacky for calling out your tackiness.

Same as saying something isn't 'classy'. By doing so you show your utter lack of class to the world (and also now my lack of class).

I love them all, warm white, cool white, coloured, tasteful, tacky, garish, uber bright, whatever. We do an annual Christmas lights hunt where we drive around our town and the neighbouring villages looking for the best/biggest displays, it's one of my daughter's favourite Christmas traditions.

I do however hate anything that flashes, and blue lights can get in the bin. Flashing blue lights have no place anywhere other than on emergency response vehicles.

It's not to my taste at all, but it's only a few weeks a year and it's lovely knowing that people are getting in the spirit of it. I like to think how excited children will be when they see all the Christmas decorations going up in their neighbourhood!

I have a line of blue lights, just on the front face of our home. I turned the flashing off, as they did remind us of the emergency services and because of how we are orientated on the road, distracting to drivers. We have no street lights and they go on as it gets dark and off about 10. I like the fact that the house puts on a festive face and miss the windows, over decoration of homes, handmade streamers, tacky foil ceiling decorations of my youth, when the space was more about family and fun and less about curation of decor and what the neighbours think.

I hate them too.
Unfortunately my dh loves them, as does our grandson... so my house does indeed resemble a knocking shop I try remind myself that they won't be up for long!

We have the tackiest house on our street 😝 with 6(!) blow up oversized santas/smowmen/dog/baubles 🎅 and lots of different lights 😅

We're like one of those over the top houses you see in American films.

We don’t have any Christmas lights but I absolutely LOVE seeing them on neighbour’s houses. So cheery at Christmas! YABU.

Tacky is the word I'd choose. Also a symptom of overcelebrating and hyping up events, I'd guess the neighbours will spend a fortune on 'big birthdays' and have things like 'birthday week'.

Same

Do we live near each other

Or just both have miserable people

It's for a few weeks at the most

Not noisy like fireworks

I don't like blue and white lights (cold and really not tacky enough), but my multicoloured lights go on a 'flashing' mode 2 weeks before Christmas until New Year's Day (they are just 'on' the rest of the time from the end of November to Jan 6th). I love tacky.

I doubt it bothers any neighbours - it's not 'seen from space' stuff and most of my neighbours have similar.

@NotParticularly that sounds awful for her 🙁