To kick off the blue christmas light debate in november?

[Theperfectchangeling]

Ok, so this has been discussed many a time, but nothing ever seems to change, every year, people still seem to enjoy adorning their homes with these eye bleeding, migraine inducing, brain splitting fuckers. Would you consider reforming your blue light ways for the sake of your fellow neighbours? Will you finally ‘see the light’ and change to any other colour instead? Please? begging

I love blue. Hate blue light. And WHY do those awful zingy flashing settings even exist? Steady lights, yes. Subtle twinkling, lovely. STROBING SHOUTY LIGHTS NOT OK!!!

Loving this thread. Down with blue lights! Also just realised that my being too lazy to take down the outside lights I have on our front balcony after last Xmas is about to pay off when I decorate for this year. Result

(Don't worry they are a tasteful string of soft white twinkly ones and they haven't been switched on since new year)

Avidly watching this thread now for updates from Idontbelieve

YANBU OP.

We put tasteful warm white lights round a potted Christmas tree in our front garden. Sadly the rest of our neighbours have lights that can be seen from space so we might as well not bother.

Any one colour displays should be banned.

All multicolour.

And tinsel. All the tinsel.

YANBU. I hate the bloody things. Even worse when they flash

My neighbour has put his Christmas lights up already. Flashing blue lights - in November. Arsehole.

And the fucker doesn’t turn them off at night so we have to keep going over and asking otherwise it’s like all the local emergency services vehicles have congregated in our street when we try to go to bed

There's nothing Christmassy about a blue light. They should indeed be banned.

Blue lights are better than cool white lights.

I am with you.
Blue and - controversial addition from me- ice white have no place in Christmas.

Blue flashing lights trigger my PTSD, so it's not cool when there were some flashing through my window last year. We've since moved, so hopefully none this year.

I loathe and detest blue christmas lights. Do what you like in your home but there's been a mass outbreak of civic spending on the wretched things, ruining many high streets at Christmas, another small pleasure stolen away from us. How did this happen? Did someone have several million of the horrors for sale and knock em out cheaply to councils everywhere? Down with them. Grim and depressing.

Team Warm White here.
DH is obsessed with the colour of lights in general so Christmas is a time of head shaking for him.
We don't own a leaf blower. Just in case you were wondering...

I HATE blue lights!!! Why you’d choose such cold, clinical, ugly, spooky lights to celebrate the season of joy, warmth and family is just utterly beyond me. No excuse for it!

I'm afraid I'm a blue-light lover, although I would never go for twinkling/flashing. I also think they are better done in small amounts or they lose the 'specialness'.

But blue light is by far my favourite, when I look at it I get a sense of - pure, holy, cleansing, still peace.

I don't get warm/festive, that is true. But so much else of Christmas provides that bit that I really enjoy looking at something that makes me feel more - hmm, I guess spiritually-minded, reflective?

Yes! I hate them! I also hate those bluish white ones (although I'd love purple white ones, like the streetlights somewhere in Oxford that I love the colour of, if they're still there. They also got bonus points for being the saucer on top of a flowerpot shape.) Red lights have their place, someone near me decorates the holly tree in their front garden with them, which looks lovely. I like multicoloured lights.

My neighbours opposite, have blue lights on both sides of the drive, and a crazy disco projector thing that covers the whole house front, as well as light up reindeer, icicle lights etc that they run for the whole of December. They've also painted the front of their (lovely Edwardian semi) house Ribena purple. It's a couple in their fifties, not even any DCs there. It's atrocious and the reason we have black out curtains. DN (3) has already asked me when the pretty lights on the purple house come on, she loved it last year, she has no taste.

Maybe the blue High Streets have been done to make ne'er do goods too twitchy to loiter about in case it is the police. Cheap crime prevention

I find the plain blue so dreary. Warm white or multi-coloured to brighten up the longest evenings.

we have blue lights in our drive and they’re lovely. sorry, all.

Blue lights =
Ambulance, fire engine, police cars
Meat freezers
Fly zappers
Anti heroin toilets
Slowly freezing to death down a crack in a glacier

So heart warming.

Ambulance, fire engine, police cars
Meat freezers
Fly zappers
Anti heroin toilets
Slowly freezing to death down a crack in a glacier

Aaaaand....a partridge in a pear treeeee!

Was skint a few years ago and put some red lights around a Holly bush in the front garden to look a bit Christmasy, mum said it looked like I was advertising "services" my teenagers said it looked like the gateway to hell

A house just down from my parents cover their entire front in neon blue lights every year, and every year they seem to add more. I wince when I see them going up, it makes my eyes hurt just driving past. Warm white or multicoloured is fine, within reason. I'm not a fan of excessive light shows, delicate and tasteful is my preference.

Agreed - white lights can do one too.

Tawdry that made me laugh out loud

If you want blue lights, fine. Put them inside your house where only YOU can see them. Outside - not so much thanks

Another down with blue lights.CanI add the icicle decorations which already on quite a few houses on our street all flashing at different speeds!And it's only November

I hate the bright white lights.