Christmas tree lights: white or multi-coloured?

[GloGirl]

Which ones look best on a tree?

Before anyone asks I've posted this in AIBU because I want a fierce and vigorous debate to help me make my mind up

White. No coloured lights here. Not on the tree nor round the archways. Also no f'ing tinsel here.
But. what do you like?

Not all coloured lights devotees also like tinsel!

I hate tinsel.

What is wrong with LED?

I like warm white and multicoloured.

Dislike blue or cool white and while we are at it tinsel, coloured trees, and festive lit twigs in lieu of a tree.

I always have warm white, but while I was buying some lights this year I remembered as a child we had multi coloured and I loved them. So, I bought some multi for my son to put in his bedroom and he loved them too. I have no idea what is wrong with LED either?!?

I have warm white on my tree but Christmas is tacky so frankly, as long as they are not those ghastly blue things I've been seeing for the last couple of years I couldn't give a toss.

My child would like me to put lights on the outside of the house, she lives with the disappointment. Instead, I take her on a tour of all the gaudy houses we can find. The fen is particularly good for screamingly gaudy houses.

MC relagated to the trees in the kids bedrooms, which are a monstrosity of tat (including tinsel). But it is ponciness personified on 12 foot tree downstairs. Warm white only of course.

By the way, M&S are doing little gold 'mini crackers' with chocolate truffles inside that are to die for. And look very cute on the branches of a tree (or did, till DH and i had a joint moment of weakness...)

Ours are not just multi-coloured, but changing colours in shapes of polar bears, penguins and reindeer.

I expect to be howled off mumsnet.

But I have removed all the tinsel that the dc put on, and the knitted snowpeople, and various other bits of tat.

And we have a second, "festive twig" with just white and silver decs, and white lights.

I like white, you should already have your tree up what are you playing at?

Both.

My tree's white (homemade) so I've always had white lights and silver decorations for it, but this year I needed to renew one string of lights, which was almost impossible. White lights a-plenty, all varieties, but they all come with green wires, shelf after shelf in one store. Am I the only person left with a light-coloured tree? Next to these dozens of lights on dark green wires, I saw a retro-looking tree in silver tinsel, but surely no-one would want to drape it with dark green wires? What's happened this year?

Totally outs self to friends and family

Purple bat lights on black tree.

I prefer white, but my family prefers colored. I bought us a new tree this year, a pre-lit one with both white and colored lights - you can choose all white, all colored, or to change from white to colored back to white. It's pretty nice and everyone is happy. :)

Warm white here.

I never thought about non-green wires being needed for light coloured trees!

Humphrey your tree sounds gorgeous and you are clearly a person of great taste! Not enough people go in for retro dried orange slice decorations. I think they're lovely.

I'm sure it must depend on your childhood Christmases. I do love warm white on a tree but we have multi as fir me it takes me right back to the 70s. I wanted a silver tree to complete the feeling but am yet to find the right one.

And cold blue is a travesty. Christmas is warm an cosy NOT blue!

I love blue lights, icy and sparkly and I think they are very Christmassy.

I think they're more Accident & Emergency-y

I like the white light.

Coloured. And tinsel to make them every more sparkly.

I live in poncey middle-class central and I can guarantee than our tree is the only one that looks like a proper Christmas tree with coloured lights.

Mine are MC, purely because everyone else on my street has white, the rebel in me will not allow me to be the same as the heard .

or herd even

White!

With silvery, glass, white and pale blue decs. Big dark green tree. No tinsel.

(I deviated from this for the first time in years last year, did coloured lights with a mixture of coloured decs. Bore it for 2 days then stripped it all off and put the white and pale decs back on).

Our tree when i was growing up had multi coloured lights and multi coloured decs on the tree.