Anonymous wrote:Yes. What's also trashy: not using an extension cord so the beginning of the light string starts at the outlet before it gets to the bush, tree or railing. Not having enough lights so that the string ends in a random place on a tree. Using different kinds of lights in close proximity to each other (so a set of big bulb lights in one color scheme next to mini lights in another color scheme, or worse, stringing them all together).

Ohhhh....I am guilty of all of that. Too many random buys of lights and never remember what we have/need. But do not worry, I just got a new inflatable that should tie it altogether.

Anonymous wrote:my goodness….since when did everything become so difficult

This.

Anonymous wrote:In think in a dual area, white lights are beautiful. But when you are surrounded by street lights that are white, white lights are pretty boring. Looks like you just turned a few extra street lights on.

Rural not dual.

In think in a dual area, white lights are beautiful. But when you are surrounded by street lights that are white, white lights are pretty boring. Looks like you just turned a few extra street lights on.

I grew up with colored lights and wanted white lights forever. Now we have white lights and my children are begging for colored lights. I don't like the blue tinge of the LEDs, I prefer the yellowy tinge of the incadescent. I like the colored LEDs. So this year my children will get what they crave: colored lights.

This thread has racist undertones

Do you think that anything non-white is trashy?

I have always liked the big colored bulbs for outdoor. Still what my parents use. I imagine they are coming back as "retro" now, but my husband is a strictly white lights kind of guy, so that's what we do.

Anonymous wrote:We use blue lights as an homage to my husbands Jewish heritage.

I loved my grandparents' blue lights! Although they weren't Jewish. Actually I don't know if they ever even knew any Jewish people. Rural Minnesota wasn't full of Jewish people when they were alive.

Go nuts with your colored lights. I just don't like the "chasers" because they make me nauseated if I look too long.

Anonymous wrote:We use blue lights as an homage to my husbands Jewish heritage.

My DH absolutely LOVES those blue lights!

Anonymous wrote:Yes. What's also trashy: not using an extension cord so the beginning of the light string starts at the outlet before it gets to the bush, tree or railing. Not having enough lights so that the string ends in a random place on a tree. Using different kinds of lights in close proximity to each other (so a set of big bulb lights in one color scheme next to mini lights in another color scheme, or worse, stringing them all together).

I wish we could be friends.

Yes

my goodness….since when did everything become so difficult

"Trashy"? That's some strong language. Everyone on the street I grew up on, which was a solidly middle-class single-family-home neighborhood in the northwest, used multicolored lights. My in-laws live in a well-established neighborhood in CT and I'd say their neighborhood is divided among white lights, colored lights, and candles in the windows. Unless the lights are blinking or something, I don't see how the classic multicolor strand is trashy.

I prefer white lights but will hang colored lights this year. My little kids love them!

We use blue lights as an homage to my husbands Jewish heritage.