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Blue Christmas (Lights)

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 19:15

Am I the only person who thinks that they don't look Christmas-like?

I rejected a set of LED lights earlier because blue was incorporated and went for bulbs which DS will no doubt eat / crush because the colours were more traditional. I've always had simple white lights but this year I'm yearning for the tree of my childhood which seemed to be lit by Quality Street chocolates

Lots of people where I live have electric-blue lights on their houses.

To me, that colour reminds me of hi-tech stuff. Remember when blue rather than green LED displays were the thing to have? I was very proud of my blue-screen Nokia at the time but it just isn't festive somehow.

That isn't to say that a complete blue Christmas can't be striking. Or an emerald-green one. With silver ooh, but we'd have to redecorate...

Do you agree and what are your colour preferences?

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clam · 05/12/2009 19:27

Why didn't you post this a few hours ago? Would have saved me the effort of standing in Homebase calling various frineds and family for opinions as to whether blue lights (for outside) are naff or not.

Went for white in the end. Icicles.

thisisyesterday · 05/12/2009 19:33

no, i agree! i don't mind the very white ones that have the slightest hint of a blue, but i HATE the plain blue ones

my preference however is multi-coloured

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 19:40

Ooh Clam, icicles are classy. lovely

Homebase was a nightmare earlier. DH took the DC to the car in the end where they had to wait twenty minutes for me to emerge from the checkout queue screaming, "Bah sodding Humbug!" such was my frustration with the Saturday staff.

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SantasKinkyKnickers0nMaHead · 05/12/2009 19:43

I have shocking blue lights on my tree but then they look great as it is a white tree, and purple in the windows

Each to their own.

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 19:46

Well there you go, I did say that a blue Christmas can be striking. Sounds great! My ambition is for the emerald and silver but not until we win the lottery.

But blue amidst traditional colours does look shite.

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SantasKinkyKnickers0nMaHead · 05/12/2009 19:49

And, in my defence, I did let 2yo dd pick the colours

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 20:00

I love purple. Your DD has incredible taste.

My twattish arse of a next-door neighbour has window stickers of snowflakes but they are gold / yellow. Now that's bad. Looks like a drunk has pissed on them.

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thisisyesterday · 05/12/2009 20:01

purple is cool, i have pink everything! chosen, i might add, before pink got super-popular and everywhere (i had to search high and low for my pink decorations)

Lapsedrunner · 05/12/2009 20:05

I'm a white girl

SantasKinkyKnickers0nMaHead · 05/12/2009 20:08

Mine are pink and purple

Just waiting on my ceiling decs though which are tradtional 80s/90s ones!

YouLukaAmazing · 05/12/2009 20:09

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mathanxiety · 05/12/2009 20:11

I used to hate them, but now I love them. In the US, a lot of Jewish families decorate with blue lights. Blue looks very sparkly and seasonal if it snows.

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 20:21

Oh no, YouLook, I might hate mine now. Pink should certainly be there, it's a Quality Street classic!

Mind you all my baubles are gold / white / silver separate figurines, a Cinderella shoe, gilded hat with fluffyness, an angel, a snowman, you get the drift. They won't work with coloured lights will they?

What will do y'all think? Plain silver baubles?

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thisisyesterday · 05/12/2009 20:52

quite frankly anything works with coloured lights IMO! it's not like you're ever going to match stuff to all the lights, it's eclectic or something

we do a good like in tacky in this house, and proud of it! lol

YouLukaAmazing · 05/12/2009 20:52

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Ripeberry · 05/12/2009 20:56

Twinkling white is best. Not seen any purple lights, where do you get them from?

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 21:03

Oh sorry, luka, not look, I'm an eejit!

Twinklng white is great but easy. Twinkling Quality Street is another matter entirely.

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SoupDragon · 05/12/2009 21:13

I love blue lights.

I have a set of fabulous purple ones in the fir tree at the front of my house together with a long string of white right across the house and down the hedge and a new blue set which I have yet to decide where to put!

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 21:18

See, blue-y purple and white! That is fine, it's great!

Blue with festive red, orange, yellow, pink, white and green is wrong wrong wrong.

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ISawTortoiseFuckingSantaClaus · 05/12/2009 21:23

I have bright blue lights on white tree too. Other decs are mainly silver and purple. Just replaced my old white lights with the blue and i love them.

Seen someone with purple ones along their fence they look great. Where do purple ones come from? I haven't seen them in a shop yet.

NotanOtter · 05/12/2009 21:23

our town has blue
spooky and cold
should be multi coloured imo

crankytwanky · 05/12/2009 21:32

I will only allow simple white lights and a muted colour palate for my deccies.

DH, meanwhile, likes the multi-coloured garish quality-street(copy-write YouLukaAmazing) lights. (Which I secretly love.)

We have two trees.

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WeThreeNinks · 05/12/2009 21:34

NaO that post is almost poetic.

In the style of Haiku even.

But it sums up my OP very well. Santa would not have a blue-led mobile, it'd be green and red or some other such hideous but festive combination.

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YouLukaAmazing · 05/12/2009 21:45

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SantasKinkyKnickers0nMaHead · 05/12/2009 21:53

Matalan do purple ones