Outdoor flashing Christmas lights are obnoxious & tacky

I absolutely hate flashing lights, they really bother me!

It's the flashing that I find really triggers a migraine for me. I bet those who have it on the strobe type of setting never have to actually look at them - they're outside or in an empty room!

Tacky things I can just silently judge and roll my eyes at and move on.

I remember the day we moved into the first every home we bought in the late 90s and I walked into DC1's about to be bedroom and it was like Blackpool Illuminations because the house behind us was COVERED with decorations. I was absolutely horrified because I used to be a hideous snob

Then I met the neighbors and I ended up loving that family and their much loved Xmas home. And I invested in good black out curtains.

My neighbour has flashing lights but I think he doesn't realise that if he pushed a button they'd change the setting! It's very annoying

Bah humbug

House local to me is amazing. Has 3.5min flashing sequence all diff colours and shapes and can tune your car radio to it and lights flash in time to the music

Fantastic !!!

I don’t like them but I like seeing them!

Each to thier own, but the tackier the better at Christmas, colourful 80’s/90s vibes. And tbh if I knew that you lived on my street it would give me great pleasure they piss you off 🙃 mine are colourful and sometimes flash depends on the programme I select. Can’t be dealing with aesthetics at Christmas.

I'm with you! Warm white is best followed by colourful ones, ideally incandescent rather than LED. But it's the bright blue and/or flashing that I find irritating, flashing lights if you can see them from your window are just annoying. I would rather some big inflatable colourful craze that didn't flash to a simple flashing set.

You need the new Richard Franks ‘Mum’ video.

It's all about what atmosphere you're going for though isn't it.

The only thing I don't understand is why you'd ramp up your electricity bill for something you can't personally enjoy from inside your house.

Saying that, thanks house opposite, as your Halloween moving skeleton display was epic, and your Xmas display is pleasing to me.

Still wonder how much it costs you though.

I love Christmas lights! So cheerful! We have warm yellow ones but I love the coloured ones too. The only ones I don’t appreciate are the flashy ones to be honest.

I’m all for the sparkles and lights, all the colours or white, artfully wrapped on a tree or strung between the wheely bins, all of it. But the flashing bothers me and I’ve had to put some cardboard over a couple of windows to block out the neighbour’s. As others have said, they are also troublesome for me when I’m driving and even more so the blue ones.

I can’t see them so I can’t say whether I like them but hey ho, it’s Christmas, and a few lights here and there are usually fairly jolly. I doubt I’d have an issue with them.

Every time I read a thread like this it puts me in mind of just one person. Hyacinth Bucket.

It depends on the lights.

I do get a bit cross when the local council decide on blue lights... just what I wanted.. to feel like I'm surrounded by emergency service vehicles and also feel cold. How merry.
Luckily this year they've gone for warm colours.

I drove past someone with violet and pink tiny fairy lights in their trees in the front garden the other day and it did actually look so pretty. Really inviting.
I wouldn't have thought of pink being a good colour for Christmas but it was lovely. Was an old cottage and really suited it.

I love them.

I wish I could afford to put millions of lights and decorations up

I actually harbour a view that those people who stick to one colour scheme are more tacky.. like you see the tree is entirely white and grey.. white branches and silver ornaments.. and the stocking are crushed grey velvet..
Just reminds me of chav tactic decor. Crushed velvet lol..
However I would never say that out loud to anyone in real life because more than I think that, I think people should be allowed to enjoy Christmas how they want. There's enough misery in the world without getting cats bum face about someone's colour scheme.

It isn't so much the colour of the lights as I'm a big fan of multicoloured fairy lights, but the blinking of them. It drives me mental. Especially when they're blue lights and I'm forever looking for an ambulance or something.

100% agree our neighbours across the way have their icicle lights on 'manic flash mode' 😒 we're a warm static white house and the outside matches the tree lights. Might put them on soft twinkle mode Christmas Eve / Christmas Day

Can I ask that you nip next door and ask them where they got them from? Red, yellow, blue and white? They sound right up my street. Thankd, in advance.

Oh pull yourself together. It's just a bit of fun. I don't have any personally but it always make me smile when I drive past someone's house and they've really gone to town. Good for them.
I think perhaps the ones that flash too rapidly might be bad for people with epilepsy so I'd think people should avoid having those.. but other than that it's just people enjoying themselves. I like to see that.
Even if I couldn't be arsed to go to those lengths myself.

@BinghamtonMetz

Completely agree, warm white only here

Yes, this! Lol!