AIBU To Not like Blue Christmas lights? (Light-hearted)

[Delilah21D00LoT]

I really do not like them and yet where I live they have become very 'popular'.

I love original yellow fairy lights, no chaser, no flashing, no colours as such -no bright white.

Never mind, each to their own! X

They always look cheap and tacky to me, and not at all Christmassy. I like warm white lights.

But I also like simple, colour coordinated decorations. No tinsel, or trees that look like a camp pantomime has vomited over them.

There's nothing christmassy about blue lights. I hate all these trendy Christmas decor colour combinations though.

YANBU they are hideous.

I do like white/golden ones if they are kind of 'rippling' or on a 'snowfall' kind of setting.

But blue? Yuk!

When we bought our house our neighbour across the road ran the Neighbourhood Watch and duly invited us to a meeting a few weeks later. Up came the subject of christmas and outdoor lights, and he asked the whole street to adhere to the "warm white only" rule he'd invented. Now, I like warm white and DH wants to vomit at the very thought of any outdoor lights, so I tend to just have the warm whites around the bay windows and coiled around the porch pillar, but the lady next door thought "fuck you and your rules" so that christmas decorated her house in the very finest gaudy shite and each December adds to the monstrous calamity she calls her garden. The NW man gets apoplectic with rage whenever she starts setting them up, sends out passive aggressive emails and, frankly, it adds such joy to my life that I'm grateful blue, flashy shite was invented, even if I hate them.

In short, YANBU. But please never ban them. Because real-life neighbourhood wars make me happy.

I love mine

I like yours, User.

YANBU.

Can't stand any of the new LED type of light actually, although blue is the worst. Even the new 'warm white' aren't like the good old fashioned incandescent lights. They are slightly too orangey pink in tone and remind me of multi storey car park lighting.

I currently still have a set of incandescent lights on my tree but no spare bulbs. Each Christmas I pray they will work when I switch them on, but I know eventually my time will be up and it'll be LED or nothing. Does anyone know if you can still buy incandescent lights anywhere? I'm really unhappy with whoever decided to outlaw old fashioned bulbs.

Lovely trees user and pixie but they do look like Christmas in the Upside Down (if you watch Stranger Things).
With a set of warm whites they would be beautiful.
Sorry.

I also agree that flashing blue lights are dangerous near main roads and should be banned due to looking too much like emergency vehicles.

YADNBU
I was hoping they were just a fad. Apparently not.

Old fashioned multi colours chez campion-not an led in sight.
Next door's porch is flashing like an episode of Casualty. Aargh!

BlindYeo
You can get them on Amazon and other outlets online. There was a thread about this a week or so ago. I got some Noma Pickwick ones and they're fab. Expensive,but fab!

I also got some extra spares-more money but a definite insurance.

My DH loves them. We've got them strung 'artisticly' around the kitchen now. I suppose the silver living is least my kitchen won't become a heroin injecting hotspot (admittedly the likelyhood of this was pretty low anyway - but the bright side and what not)

Thank you Campion!

Aren't blue/white/silver and the Hanukkah colours? I know a Jewish family who decorate with blue & white lights for Hanukkah. Could these light be for that? Obviously not if they're on a Christmas tree...

Pleasure BlindYeo.
You won't regret buying them,I promise you. Apart from the bank balance, that is

I don't like them. I can't seem to see them properly. They mess with my eyes/brain.

NOtfinished - yes they are.

Plenty of Jewish families that I know get a Christmas tree. It's not called a 'Christmas tree' in their homes but they buy them at the Christmas tree (or 'Holiday Tree') lot. More like a 'Hanukkah bush', and it's decorated without Christian symbols.

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I loathed all blue Christmas lights until this year. My neighbour has some on her shrubs outside BUT she has intertwined them with some warm white ones and the effect is quite pretty.Its the only exception to my no blue light rule though.
The next door to her house is actually a dentists and they have blue lights, which seems fitting (and would make me want to go to the dentist even less).

Lighthearted?! Just in case someone thought you were serious about disliking blue lights.

YABU for that alone

Another one here who hates the blue lights...and the over-bright white too. I thought I was the only one but pleased to find I'm not alone!

Hate.

Like blue painted fences.

Just wrong.

I love them! And I have them. Not flashing though. Hate flashing Christmas lights, except on the street.

You can get the old fashioned type in the Range too, indoor only thouigh.