The Great Christmas Debate - #3 Lights Plain or Multicolour

Ah this is too much, why does it feel like I am hurting an old friend if I vote plain?

We use plain lights on the tree as were are supposedly 'grown-ups' nice soft lights not blue. But in the kitchen we have coloured lights above the presses which light the ceiling. We also have those tacky (but brilliant) accordion style shinny ceiling decorations.

My folks have lights on their tree with a hand written date on their box from before they were married. They have a lovely old smell off them (no, not from burning). They are lantern like ones and you can take the lantern part off however the bulb matched the colour of the lantern, belt and braces back then I guess.

We also have soft plain ones for outside, which are used all autumn and winter here, I would call them hipstery ones. I need to put them up this week.

This one is a close call.

Multicolored all the way for me. Just more christmassy

We have multicoloured but i prefer plain.

Reason we have multicoloured is because......well, kids.

multi coloured looks too ugly for me

Yep, we're at eth e sensible white/blue-ish lights stage at the moment; I'm planning/hoping to re-introduce the multi-coloured with the help of my 4 year old soon. She's just the right age to start campaigning I reckon.

I voted plain, because they are 'nicer', but multi-coloured just says Children's Christmas to me, which is what it's all about really.

In the same way I'd choose cleanly painted walls, but still love the scribbles

I'll only say this once... I HATE the blinking lights indoors. Have no issue with the external icicle type & the ones we put in the tress & bushes but indoors, not a chance. I like the consistent warm relaxing glow, the blinky blinky madness does terrible things to my OCD:D

I voted plain because that's what I have on my tree.  Like Miamee, I thought it was very sophisticated after years of tinsel and mismatched decorations and coloured lights on a very bad fake tree - remember the ones that were basically made from tinsel. 
I now have a hankering to buy myself a couple of sets of the retro coloured lights from BT & would love to get my hands on a few boxes of those 'foil bauble' decorations etc and do a completely retro tree.  Maybe a small second tree in the dining room or hall or something would be in order....

I like plain lights and I just keep them 'on'. I find blinking lights a real distraction. I love when they reflect off my shiny decorations and the whole ambiance they give when they're on.

I had epilepsy when I was younger thankfully seizure free well over a decade now. No blinking lights for me I prefer plain lights to coloured. Enough colour in other decorations although I do have a set of red lights for my front door but only got them 2 years ago I think.

I voted plain.

Guys I'm legitimately shocked at the attitude to multicoloured lights shown here.

Childish?

I THINK NOT.

:P

We have plain
but
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they are those LEDs that change,
so first they go white, then red, then yellow

Before they came into my life, I preferred plain, so that's my vote

Multicolour here! Every year, I think "maybe this year, we'll go rogue and put plain ones on" but tbh, I can't bring myself to do it :pac:

We have multicoloured on both tree - gently flickering (not strobe, they do my head in and cue a migraine). I put warm plain ones in my garlands. Outside, we also have a mix, multicoloured on the gutters & plain in the bushes.

Also, we don't have a theme for our trees - unless it is "christmas got sick on this tree" I'm not sure you could have a theme with smallies

I have a combo on my tree.....warm white on a gentle twinkle setting ( not blinking) and traditional colored lights ( static) with the shades. Could we have a combo in the poll. We don’t have a themed tree, I am crazy about collecting Christmas tree ornaments as was my Mum. Started my own collection in 2000 and have always bought at least 2/3 items for my tree every year and usually get something on holidays too! Love the thrill of unwrapping the ornaments every year.