Warm vs Cold white Christmas lights

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Am I the only one who prefers the warm white Xmas lights. Why have we gone cold white in the uk. Am in the Netherlands now and it is all warm white. I think so much more classy. And don’t get me started on blue lights. Simply awful no?

@7Days you could buy them in Tesco this year but I got some nice soft led ones in b&m that aren’t quite as harsh. They’re not perfect but they use much less energy and aren’t a fire risk so they’ll do

MyDP put blue lights onour tree this year, honestly, you spend 18 years with a man you thought you knew then he forces blue strobey style lights...

Love warm, but i think White must be cheaper to produce.

Am in the Netherlands now

Do you celebrate Christmas and Sinterklaas day?

Warm white
Multicoloured
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@DonaldTrumpsChopper that is hilarious. Didn’t know anybody else hated them as well and called them out! I remember those lovely coloured lights and when one bulb broke the entire set went out. We spent ages as kids screwing bulbs back in and them flickering back on. Anyway I didn’t notice until my DP who is Dutch asked me why the brits were so obsessed with cold and blue.

Always warm white here, definitely look classier imo. Although I bought some lights in the sale last year, morrisons (I think), and they say warm white but they have a strange hint of yellowish green . Really don't match my other lovely warm white ones .

Too many blue and bright white in our area, hate them, also dislike purple, turquoise or basically any none Christmasy colour! Subtle multicoloured NONE flashing ones are growing on me

@CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost well DP does yes. But I live in the UK so we do Xmas (we live in different countries!!). That’s why we really notice it. My mum was on the lights committee for her small town in Norfolk and said she was the lone voice asking for warm white lights in town. Everybody else wanted cold white. It’s just not as cosy !

We have thrown out all our yellow lights, inside and out, and replaced with white. I think they look nicer.

Blue lights are wrong.

Warm white makes my living room cosy! Can't do white they make my vision funny.

Are all the blue light lovers hiding ? There are so many of them

They're too scared to say anything. But thnn they'll vote for blue in our "warm white v blue" referendum and confuse us.

@donaldtrumpschopper yes! And then if warm white win they will demand a second referendum

Philistines !!

Lights should be multicoloured. And plenty of them.

We should put this in AIBU and set up a poll. Might flush out a few shy voters.

7days Poundland if all places is good for proper, bulb fairy lights. I have.mine up all year so they last really well. The most expensive are 200 for a fiver or they have small sets of 20 or so for 1 or £2.

These are Poundland ones..

In order of preference (on trees):

Multicoloured LED (including blue)
Warm white
Old fashioned multi-coloured (a bit boring)
Single colour (preferably blue)
Cold white - really don't like.

Outdoors - I like multicoloured on hedges and bushes etc also blue and green together look amazing. I think the mixed blue and cold white icicle lights hanging from eaves look stunning too. Blue is my favourite colour.

warm white / Nordic all the way here. So much more subtle and traditional compared the bright white.

I wonder if its an age thing? I’m old.

my neighbours have young teenagers and theyve got those white projected snowflakes that look like Misterons.

The cold white, blue and red look eerie in my opinion. More suited to a bar.

You'll hate me. I currently have a mix of warm white, coloured, and bright white.

In my defence, I've literally just got my tree up today due to a full on combination of Christmas preparation delaying factors and its the first Christmas in a new house with a bigger tree than normal! Am just grateful to have got the bloody thing up!

@nightsofcabiria yes I am old too! Warm white was all there was when I was a child (I think) and was just so much more cosy and Christmassy. Netherlands is all warm and is so nice now I am here. Not a blue or cold white light in sight.

@teddyneedsawash you’ll be replacing those cold white with warm when you get a moment to breathe. You mark my words

It has to be warm white, definitely. But I'm also very fond of multicoloured ones.

I’m a bright white fan - warm white just looks like a dirty yellow colour to me or as though the. batteries are going.

Cold white & blue are my usual colours, I usually do real, silver & brown baubles to match our decoration. Hope fully will be in a new house next year so will be buying a new colour theme but will carry on with the cold white lights as I prefer them because they show up the glittery decorations better.

That should say teal, not real, bloody predictive text.

I tried the bright white but they gave my tree and wreath a green tinge. Not nice at all.

The most annoying thing is though that manufacturers cant seem to agree on what constitutes warm white. Ive had everything from green, through amber to yellow and proper warm white. I sometimes wonder if theyre colour blind.

We had coloured lights on a real tree when i was little. so i do have a soft spot for them.