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

Ecureuil, yes, they have been appropriated by people who apparently have no idea they are Hanukkah colours, which is offensive enough without hundreds of people announcing in caps how much they hate them (some in caps) and find them 'not Christmassy'. Well no, they are not 'Christmassy', but Hanukkah coincides with Christmas most years.

BeyondAssignation I actually quite like that house, they've unashamedly gone ridiculously overboard so it ended up looking nice, Snow Queen style.

Unlike most on this thread, I do like blue fairy lights, just not necessarily on my tree, I prefer multicoloured ones.
I only hate the cold white ones really which is strange as I generally dislike warm tones.

I dont mind the blue ones but I cannot stand the red ones.

Every year i used to pass a house with a tree decorated purely with red lights. Horrible and looked more devilish that christmassy.

I’m not sure why not knowing they are traditional Hanukkah colours is offensive mathanxiety. I consider myself to be fairly well read and well travelled but I have never been amongst the Jewish community at Hanukkah so until this thread it wasn’t something I had ever learned. I’m glad I now have that knowledge.

After years of white lights on our tree I swapped to multi coloured this year, aiming to re-create that 70's feel of childhood christmasses

I've done the same for the same reason - complete with tinsel and wooden toy ornaments

The mistake i made last year was using led lights, you need the shaded incandescent ones for the proper look. Got mine on Amazon, think it was pickwick brand.

I was a 70's child. Cheap tinsel skinny silver tree with lots of hideous ornaments - cheap angel on the top and some gaudy glass baubles should cover it. Finish with the lights as described above but have flowers on them and the constant need to find the defective one that renders the whole fairy light useless.

Oh dear, I have blue lights. They were cheap in b&q one year. I quite like them.

I am impartial, I don't really care. I know someone who puts up pink and purple ones outside. I just do warm white but since last year I have started to like the multicoloured ones again, I love the retro feel of them!

We have blue lights. I hate them. Husband bought them a few years ago and I keep forgetting we have them until after he's put up the tree. Then I can't be arsed to change them.
After Christmas I'm blowing money in the sales on new lights/decorations!

My OH lives above a commercial premises that has blue flashing icicles hanging just above our bedroom window. They go off at about half past 12 at night when the place closes, and since laying there 4 years ago (when they first got put up) wondering if there was some sort of emergency services meeting on the front lawn, I’ve never really warmed to blue lights at Christmas

I agree. You can't appropriate blue ffs. Stop being silly.

Not at all keen on blue lights (I'm all for 'warm white'), even less keen on flashing lights of any colour........

I love blue lights and last year I bought myself some - they are decorating my bookcase and giving me joy even as we speak
Our tree has multicoloured lights though - we like gaudy..

YANBU - they are horrid and hurt my eyes....

And I had no idea that blue lit trees were a Hannukah tradition and that's lovely but they have certainly been appropriated for Christian Christmas on a very wide scale where I live, particularly outdoors where they really jar with me!

Happy Hannukah!

The blue ones are my favourite

I don't think they're Christmas lights are they? Where I grew up blue lights were put up for Hannukah.

blue lights belong on emergency vehicles only. gavel emoticon.

I'm not insisting they should be copyrighted, or not used by anyone who fancies the colour.

What I find very odd is that people are complaining they are not Christmassy. No, they are not Christmassy. Not everything that appears in the 'Christmas season' has to be associated with Christmas.

It's also the 'Hanukkah season' though this is a movable feast, and the Winter Solstice, and Kwanzaa occurs too at this time.

I'm moving to the 'hate camp' - the ones near us were all the blue-white ones which look lovely but a house down the road has now put some up which are not only the same blue as the lights on emergency vehicles but are also flashing, they distracted me the other night as I was sure an emergency vehicle was coming up behind me.

That's weird, I only like blue lights.

I think they look magical and enchanting.

Makes me feel I am on the set of some romantic Christmas movie.

mathanxiety

The MAJORITY on this thread are talking about Christmas. It is still the main winter celebration in the UK. I cannot stand when people start whining about this sort of stupid.