Apparently white Christmas lights signals upper middle class and coloured lights do not. Mrs TiRed is of the white is right brigade and scorned my decorated aero bike with its aero nativity on account of the coloured light sacrilege!
so what colour are your Christmas lights this year?
Yeah this was a thing i didn't know until i got married. Also tinsel is tacky apparently, but we've reached an accommodation on that one.
Warm(er) white for the win. Cool white just ruins the mood. Mind you, the Icelanders light up their relatives graves at Christmas in coloured lights and they exude class so maybe that's the right choice.
No lights or tinsel here.
White here, though i allow some multi coloured as thats more christmasy.
Where is blue in this standing ?
What Christmas lights?
Douilles de chantier here, the lights you get the builders fit. The only sign of Christmas is a Lindt advent calendar I was given. The doors have been opened out of order looking for the ones I like. The Christmas lights at the pool are white, classy pool then. The supermarket less so, I'll check out other places through the day.
Christmas decorations and lights should be primarily to please children.
Colourful, flashy, the tackier the better please.
Christmas decorations and lights should be primarily to please children.
Colourful, flashy, the tackier the better please.
100%
Coloured. White is boring.
Plus I just hate snobs, so if tacky decorations wind them up I'm all for it.
That is the most thoughtfully decorated Christmas bike I've very seen 👍
How did you make it?
Belief that one is “upper middle class” is a signal that someone is actually one of those frightful grasping members of the lower orders. Let me guess - the upvc front door has a wreath from a garden centre and and the tree baubles are all new? 🙂
multi coloured and indeed app controlled here - but then I’m absolute scum and proud!!
Warm white outside. Coloured on the tree indoors.
Hmmmm. Outside, we have cool white dangly lights from the roofline, a multi-coloured string of coloured lights that go across the top of the ground floor windows and then dangling stars in all of the downstairs from windows that must be really cheap LEDs because they are a yellowy-orange, but with a hint of a green tinge which I have seen in cheap LEDs before.
It looks better than it sounds (probably quite a subjective view though, I admit) 😁
Problem with 'white' lights is there's no such thing & you are never quite sure what sort of 'white' you are going to get until you turn them on. There is quite a variation even among cool white or warm white.
We always have candles on the tree. The staff light them at eventide and extinguish them once we have retired.
I’d need to check if the C&U/Lighting Regs apply to bike - but it’s potentially illegal on a road!
I'm of the colour and sparkles are all good and for the kids and the kid inside us all.
Apparently I have no taste.
Where is blue in this standing ?
In the train station toilets making if difficult for you to find a vein
Where is blue in this standing ?
In the train station toilets making if difficult for you to find a vein
It's Christmas all year round in Leith
I didn't realise that so many of the Griswolds had made it onto this forum!
We have some cluster lights that are a 50/50 mix of warm and cool white and I think they look really nice.
Yes I tease my GF that she's middle class because of her preference for tasteful white lights.
My mini-tree does have white lights, but there is also tinsel.
Folk who try and do a classy middle class Christmas have missed the point by a mile.
It should be a) For the kids and then b) remind you of any good memories from your own childhood.
Christmas is coloured lights.
I know it's important to support the local Christmas tree farm, as they hardly make any money* ,but we have branches cut from the local woods. We then arrange them in an artistic bunch and use small solar powered uplighters to show off our hand made decorations.
* there is no truth in the money laundering stories
I see that this is the thread for people who like Christmas, and the 'how Christmassy do you feel' thread is the one for all the people that hate it 😀
👍 😊
I used to do white but when the kids came along I realised coloured is where it's at. Of the 14 sets of lights on the front of them house, only a couple are warm white, a star in the porch window and some hanging stars in the other window, all others are coloured.
We live on a road with a primary school and I love seeing the kids stopping to look at all the lights with big smiles on there faces
We have warm white solar lights outside all year round, so add extra coloured ones at Christmas, along with a rope light snowman and Reindeer pulling a sleigh.
White on the Christmas tree indoors though...
We know some people who are part of Edinburgh's banking classes, well she is he is a decent bloke. He is allowed to decorate inner facing part of the tree but she alone can dress the street facing sections.
She is an insufferable bore with little class but plenty of cash.
Does the OP wear burgundy trousers I wonder?????
Where is blue in this standing ?
Nowhere, hopefully. Blue LED lights are very unsettling, they give out more UV, I believe, but the light is just very harsh and unpleasant. Indoors, if I was going to have Christmas lights on, they’d have to be a warm white, not cold white.
As it stands, the only lights I’m likely to have on are little LED tea lights, which are pleasing to have lit without any other lights - I’ve got a bunch of them, but not got around to turning them on yet.
Then I’ll find out how many need the batteries replaced!
As they use CR2032’s, I can get cards with a dozen on for a couple of quid, then the batteries go into the battery recycling bag for the council to take away
It should be a) For the kids and then b) remind you of any good memories from your own childhood.
What if you have neither? asking for a friend who is trying to work out how to make Christmas something enjoyable again.
I came here thinking this was going to be a discussion of the Rory Stewart - Gary Stevenson beef. This one could run for much longer
No burgundy trousers. The nativity is a kunst and Schmidt which came with white bulbs about 20 years ago. I had to update to coloured LEDs. I thought the white went well with the white racebike. And it fitted nicely with just two zip ties into the Arundel Mandible - I’ve never lost a nativity errr bottle, bottle cages.
last year needed more engineering 