Christmas Tree Lights: What's Your Preference?

[Tiggerish]

Just for fun, without debating LEDs, how do you like your Christmas tree lights?

I don't like blinking lights, and although clear (warm) white has its place, I love multi-colored lights on my tree.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Multicolored is the way to go. White are pretty but multicolored is what I grew up with. A few times my mom tried white lights but after a couple years she went back to multi. The couple years she tried white lights on the main tree we had a secondary tree in the basement with multi.

When I got married, there was no discussion about the light type, we are both multi colored people. All 8 trees have multi, although one is themed red/white. It’s our candy cane tree.

As for flashing… no.

 

[Tiggerish]

Multicolored is the way to go. White are pretty but multicolored is what I grew up with. A few times my mom tried white lights but after a couple years she went back to multi. The couple years she tried white lights on the main tree we had a secondary tree in the basement with multi.

When I got married, there was no discussion about the light type, we are both multi colored people. All 8 trees have multi, although one is themed red/white. It’s our candy cane tree.

As for flashing… no.

Our "discussion" for our first married Christmas tree was blinking or steady, we both came from multi households. He still prefers blinking, but I've imposed my iron will and we've only ever had steady lights.

And apparently, all those years multi was his moms preference, he likes clear! So with six or.more trees, we have a mix, though I still think multi are much more beautiful.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

On my tree I like multi color steady, along with the old bubble lights. On the house I still love the traditional look of steady white icicles along the roofline and multi color lights on the trees and shrubs , the latest sets I’ve bought have about 90% steady and about 10% twinkle lights though which I think is kind of the best of both worlds.

 

[nickys]

We have multi coloured lights for the tree and elsewhere.
But there is a button for different options for steady, slow-fade, 50/50 slow fade, rapid blinking etc.
Usually we have everything steady but occasionally we’ll use a slow fade option.

For me the all white lights look best on a huge tree with thousands of lights.

 

[Back!Elbow!Shoulders!]

I like multicolor steady and that’s what we usually do. This year lil BES saw a strand of red steady (that was supposed to be used elsewhere) and decided that’s how we were doing the tree this year.

I don’t love it but it’s not too bad. Tbd what home boss will pick next year.

 

[MinnieM123]

Clear steady, as one soft neutral color acts as a perfect background, highlighting the various colored bulbs on the tree.

That said, I like ALL varieties of lights -- just depends upon how the rest of the tree (and size of tree) are decorated.

 

[Baron Von Capybara]

Multi coloured and steady family here.
We may look at getting some new lights this year as well both like the retro look a la stranger things.

 

[John park hopper]

This year we got an artificial tree with blinking lights 9' with many light options got it on Monday set it up Tuesday looked great worked Christmas day no lights the next day called Amazon-- UPS picked up Saturday

 

[Disstevefan1]

As we know, the majority of todays typical lights are either incandescent or LED in one or two serial loops, if one of them goes bad (open) then the entire loop goes out. Even when the go bad and short, the loop still lights but for every one that shorts the remaining lit ones have more voltages across them which also bad.

Many remember C6, C7, C9 Christmas light strings. The great thing about these is each bulb is in parallel and as we know, if one goes bad, the rest stay lit at the same voltage and you just need to replace the bad bulb.

In my opinion, the best of both worlds is the C6,C7, C9 (parallel) strings populated with screw in LED bulbs. As we know, LEDs use about 20 percent of the power compared to its corresponding incandescent bulb.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Smart lights. No need to choose. Can do what whatever suits my fancy on a whim.

 

[Tiggerish]

Smart lights. No need to choose. Can do what whatever suits my fancy on a whim.

I have a set of those, too. I choose to leave them on multi colored steady.

Except when I choose to put them on clear steady.

 

[Wicked Sisters]

We always have coloured lights not flashing and a mixture of baubles and hanging ornaments. Here’s a pic from this year and our fireplace.

 

[Baron Von Capybara]

Smart lights. No need to choose. Can do what whatever suits my fancy on a whim.

I have a set of those, too. I choose to leave them on multi colored steady.

Except when I choose to put them on clear steady.

If they were truly "smart" lights, they would automagically be on your favourite setting .

 

[lazyboy97o]

If they were truly "smart" lights, they would automagically be on your favourite setting .

My favorite setting is indecision and they rotate through a variety of settings.

 

[donaldtoo]

Just for fun, without debating LEDs, how do you like your Christmas tree lights?

I don't like blinking lights, and although clear (warm) white has its place, I love multi-colored lights on my tree.

Yep, Multi-colored Steady here, too…!!!

 

[Figgy1]

I vote clear steady
Dh votes, whatever doesn't need to be untangled
The boys vote blinking and multi colored
I don't know when where or how but the boys found a strand of blue blinking lights to add to the tree. I still have a headache

 

[Chi84]

As we know, the majority of todays typical lights are either incandescent or LED in one or two serial loops, if one of them goes bad (open) then the entire loop goes out. Even when the go bad and short, the loop still lights but for every one that shorts the remaining lit ones have more voltages across them which also bad.

Many remember C6, C7, C9 Christmas light strings. The great thing about these is each bulb is in parallel and as we know, if one goes bad, the rest stay lit at the same voltage and you just need to replace the bad bulb.

In my opinion, the best of both worlds is the C6,C7, C9 (parallel) strings populated with screw in LED bulbs. As we know, LEDs use about 20 percent of the power compared to its corresponding incandescent bulb.

So did you vote?

 

[Disstevefan1]

So did you vote?

Yup, multi-colored steady. Just my personal preference.

 

[Dead2009]

Multi colored and I don't mind if they blink but steady is the way to go.