What color lights do you put on your tree??

[Debbie]

I love little white lights on the tree..and tons of them with one strand a slow flicker. However, when we got our new pre-lit tree it's colored lights. I don't hate it, but it's not the same

Exactly the opposite, here.

Last year we got a slim 6.5 ft tree - after 6 years of a HUGE 12 ft! We really like the slim trim and it is prelit with white. This year I want to put a few strands of colored lights on it also because I missed the colored light last year.

I miss the coloured lights, so it's either a second tree or a few strands on the prelit one.

 

[DISNEYNV]

I love white lights on the tree, but we got a white tree a few years back on sale at Lowes. It has changing optical fibers and it's really cool! The kids live it and I don't need to string the lights! I still prefer white lights outdoors though! It's all what you prefer and how you love to decorate! I just love driving around to look at the outdoor displays with our kids Can't wait!

 

[MyK9Bites]

My wife loves the white lights that blink, she loads it down with everything else.

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

I like multi-color, but DH thinks it looks like a circus. He is definitely a traditional white-only bulb guy.

 

[mommyof2princesses]

We do non-blinking white lights. Our ornaments are mostly red and white. We do have a yearly ornament that isn't always red or white, but those are the only ornaments that aren't. I also do red beads as garland and a red star although sometiems I do a very large red velvet bow with long tails that go down the tree.

We have a second store bought tree that the girls decorate. This will be the first year we do it. Not sure what color lights, but all the ornaments are disney. I have been collecting them for almost 20 years!

 

[bdkane]

We do a all white light tree in the living room and a smaller multi color - of course Disney themed!- in the den

 

[kacaju]

colored blinking lights no theme, i collect ornaments from vacations and hallmark (I used to buy a ton the day after Christmas when they went 1/2 price)

 

[Lumiere Lover]

Both of my parents had a huge love of Christmas. My father passed away while I was 13, my mom is still here with us, and Christmas is a HUGE deal for me.

I live in a 3 bedroom home, and we put up 8 trees:

The living room tree is 10 feet tall, and it has colored lights. This is because we have an open ceiling to a room upstairs, where I put two trees, both with white lights. That way the tree downstairs doesn't blend in with the trees upstairs.

My upstairs bedroom tree is burgundy and gold, with Beauty and the Beast ornaments, and it has white lights.

Our kitchen has a tree that is decorated with candy each year, and this tree has white lights, to blend better with the garland that has white lights that runs above my kitchen cabinets.

Our dinette tree is decorated with kitchen themed ornaments, and has gingerbread-themed garland. This tree also has white lights.

My son's bedroom tree has colored lights, this tree is fishing themed.

My daughters bedroom tree is dolphin/tropical themed, with all blue lights.

Although most of my trees have white lights, I prefer the colored lights. The main tree is in our living room, and that is the one with colored lights.

Also, I love bubble lights! My husband hates them! Our living room tree with the colored lights also gets strands of bubble light on it. The bubble lights are getting harder and harder to find, and they are starting to look cheap/plastic.

Before you ask, I start decorating the week after Halloween. I also have a 90 piece Department 56 Dicken's Village that I put up.

Most of the trees are put away with the lights on them, so I only need to open and fluff the trees, then decorate.

I love Christmas. I have been fortunate to be at Disney twice to see all the wonderful decorations, and we are planning/saving for another Disney Christmas trip/DCL trip in three years!!

 

[csharpwv]

Ahhhh - Yes - the great Christmas Light debate - it's a time honored tradition in our home.

Growing up there was NO QUESTION - it was always colored light - we used the same ones every year until they wore out - and then we replaced them - with more colored lights. We had handmade, homemade, kid made, adult made, school made ornaments - something from everyone! The tree was about family - our history - and our present - memorialized from about a week before Christmas until Epiphany rolled around - and THEN the REAL TREE (usually a white pine) came down. It always had icicles, gold or silver tinsel garland, and a star on top - until it broke - and then we used and angel - and now the tree is back to a star.

My wife grew up in a house that did something different with the tree every year- some years it was real - some years it was artificial - but every year it was 'adult'.

I inherited all of my grandmother's Christmas decorations including a nativity that was literally assembled over the course of 20+ year (one of the stable animals has a Woolworth's price tag on the inside for pocketchange) it's very mismatched, very eclectic - not totally in scale - but it is an absolute treasure to me. Along with some of the vintage glass ornaments that she had used for year - and year - and years - there were some handmade things she had put together over the years. She loved to sew and crochet - so it's always a very sentimental time for me to crack open that box each winter.

The first year we were married - we had bought a real tree following what my family had always done - that tree tipped over the night after putting it up breaking many glass ornaments - even some that were personalized from our Honeymoon just a few months before (from WDW!)
And as it turns out - I am allergic to real trees now - it's getting worse as I get older - so we decided to shop for an artificial tree in the 'aftermath' of Christmas hoping to find a good deal on a high end tree.
We had seen one at Sam's that we REALLY liked but it was way out of our price range - so we vowed to go back and check the day after Christmas.
Well we didn't make it - BUT - we went back a few days after and sure enough ALL of the trees were gone.
So we were leaving and sure enough - there was one - still in the box (actually two boxes) coming back in the door. I asked the guy if he was returning it - and he said "YES we never had it out of the box - we went to put our tree up a few days before Christmas and the lights didn't work - so I came and bought this one - and by the time I got back home my uncle who is an electrician had fixed the old one - and Sam's had already closed - so we just put it in the garage - see it still has the tape on it."
So we followed him to the register - and told the clerk that as soon as he returned it - we wanted to buy it!

So we got the tree we wanted - a 9ft Tree with over 1,000 lights for under $100 - it was an amazing deal - and we LOVE the tree. It has mixed branches so it looks very real and doesn't really shed like the trees with all flat needles.

So that's out tree story - and I wish it were colored light - but it's all clear/white lights - so that makes DW happy - the size and beauty make me happy! It's very full - and touches out 9ft ceilings. If we had carpet on instead of hardwood - it would be too tall! HAHA

But it takes a LONG time to decorate it - but WE LOVE IT!

 

[disneychrista]

It was always white lights. Last year I think I got multi-color lights. Ornaments change depending on how well feel that year. I have snowflakes, disney, multi-color ornamtents and other misc.

 

[jacksmom]

I really like white lights best! But, we do a real tree that we cut at a tree farm in the L/R with white lights (my formal tree, Victorian style), and an artificial tree that has multicolored lights in our family room (a casual family tree), and small artificial tree in our D/R with white lights (I add framed family pics and flowers to it)! I also do a table top tree in the kitchen with multicolored lights (gingerbread themed) and a table top tree in the D/R with fancy floral and white lights! We also do 2 outside trees with white lights and a smaller one with red lights! We also do fiber optic trees in the bed rooms!

 

[goofyfordisney]

I love little white lights on the tree..and tons of them with one strand a slow flicker.

Me too! I thought I was the only one who did that!

My husband would prefer that I don't have the one strand with the slow blinking lights, but I like it...it looks like twinkling to me.

 

[Minnie]

White lights

 

[marthachick]

We ALWAYS got to the Top of the Mountian Christmas Tree Farm (can see for miles!) and pick our tree out the day after Thanksgiving. Take it home & put white blinking lights AND steady burning colored lights. THEN, we put on our ecelctic collection of ornaments. Things we have collected for years. I have an angel that my 5th grade teacher painted for me MANY years ago. Things DS made in preschool, and school. Ornaments we got on vacations or that relate to something significant that happened that year. Just last year we got the mascot of the college that our DS had been accepted to for this year. Also, every year, our extended family has a reunion and we all receive a dated Christmas ornament with some sort of "family" significance. These are always on the tree also. So it's kind of a history tree like a PP mentioned. Love our tree & everyone who sees it says it's beautiful!

 

[pigletto]

Sigh. I bought all new LED lights for the tree last year and I LOATHE them. But once I got them all up I was exhausted and didn't want to deal with taking them all down, so I told myself they would grow on me.
They didn't.
They are weird colors (purple and blue and yellow and orange.. what was I thinking?!?).

I hate the idea of buying all new lights this year but I seriously hate these things.

 

[orbrian]

I like white lights.

 

[bettymae1121]

I like white lights on indoor trees, I think color lights distract from the ornaments.

Outdoors you can go either way, either all white or all multi color. I don't care for all-color other than white (say all blue or all green).

 

[MommyBell08]

We like white inside and colored lights on the bushes. So excited about Christmas coming!

 

[beansmom]

well, since I think I am the Poor Man's Martha Stewart....

I prefer all white lights and we use them on our Disney themed real tree. DH likes colored lights so we use THEM on our white fake tree. I do themes...the big tree is all disney...a smaller white tree was brightly colored 'mod' ornaments last year...this year it will be dragons and knights (yeah, I'm kinda nuts...I know). I have some blue/snowman ornaments that I'd like to put on a tree on the porch...we'll see if I can do that without DH strangling me.

I also decorate the living room in theme...last year was gold/red shiny...this year is navy blue/silver/snowflakes. I like to rotate/alternate each year so it doesn't get 'old'.

Like I said...trailer park martha stewart.

 

[sydneysmom]

we do colored lights inside and outside. I've got a big collection of Christopher Radko ornaments which are very colorful. So when we had white lights on the tree it didn't really do them justice for some reason... it looked bland. As soon as we put colored lights on, all the ornaments just sparkled.

It just looks so much warmer ( to me) with colored lights. It reminds me of the big huge bulbs we had growing up. ( that my parents still use today!!)