White Fairy Lights

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I bought a mini bell tent type tent and am now legally required to wrap fairy lights around the centre pole. I was in The Range and saw the last packet of cheap lights the right length for my needs so I snaffled them quickly. Imagine my horror and despair when I got home and loaded in some batteries to find I had accidentally purchased "Bright White" lights instead of the "Warm White" lights of the type that a fully grown, rational human being would want.
Why do they even sell those "Bright White" lights? What's gone so badly wrong in somebody's life that make then want a fairy light experience similar a Post Office counter or a dental clinic?
I bought the correct lights in Tesco and feel much better now in their homely, comforting and subtle glow.

I feel the same about blue lights, nothing says Christmas like flashing blue lights reminiscent of a crime scene.

If you a bit bored, sat on your bell tent, one evening you can paint each bulb with yellow nail polish.

I did this ONCE...

Totally agree. No one is buying the bright white ones, surely?

Yes, blue is even more dire though.

I’m the one who buys bright white, I think the warm white look dirty 😂

I feel your pain. Our village fundraises for Christmas lights each year and I've long since stopped donating because they are all ICE WHITE.

Warm white would create a cosy glow with cheery ambience and not something reminiscent of a permanent polar winter. Other villages have multicolours and warm white and they look amazing.

Sympathies. Bright white are horrific.

🙋🏻 that would be me.
Much prefer them to warm white. Happy to leave them on the shelves for you guys 😆

Hi @Scutterbug - fellow bright white fan

I did this two christmasses ago to a 700 bulb set with sharpies, to get the perfect retro glow reminiscent of 1980s Christmas. Took me a whole day.

Bright white and blue are horrible, especially flashing, massive migraine trigger.

Our town centre is all blue Christmas lights, it’s so depressing to look at. Are blue cheaper?

I buy based on colour temperature 😂

Blue lights are awful aren't they? So cold.

Our town centre is the same.

Blue lights always seem to be left on the shelves so imagine they could end up being cheaper/discounted

I do too! 😂 Thanks for making me laugh though OP 😁

Needs must! About 30 years ago my mum, frustrated that you could only buy coloured lights where we lived bought a string and got my dad to strip the colour out of each bulb

Any kind of white is a weird choice. Multi-coloured all the way.

Amazed to see people admit to bright white lights. They must want the "Ice" look to match their cold emotionless hearts.

Haha, I love this thread - absolutely agree OP! It's good to hear the opinions of the bright white lovers, in a sort of scientific way...

I used to dislike coloured as well, but have come round to them - although a bell tent definitely calls for warm white

I spend every December wondering why there's an ambulance up the road... it's a house with a maintainence van parked next to a lot of flashing blue lights.

Ice white looks like the batteries are going flat and they're only just lighting up. Dreary.

Warm white and multi-coloured all the way!

I used to put those icicle lights all along the first floor of my double fronted detached house. I hired a handyman to do it as I am far too old and heavy to risk a ladder.
He did it. We turned them on and shock horror they were bright white!!! I could have accepted it but my tree in the bay window and my wreath had warm lights and I just could not live with the clash. I got him to take them all down and replace with warm white icicles. Ahhhhhh...

Oh I love bright white! They seem...cleaner to me.

We have blue icicle type lights on the front gable and blue twinkling wrapped around the ornamental wrought iron fencing. I think they look lovely in a north pole way.

Inside it's the same coloured lights every year. I've never been drawn to white lights on a Christmas tree. But I do have white lights wound around the nativity set.