What lights do you have on your Xmas tree?

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I've always had just white lights but my daughter asked me this year when we was out if we could have coloured as white are sooooooooooo boring! ( said in a teenage manner ).... I feel guilty now and think, well it is for kids so maybe i should get some and be a lovely mummy:banana:

So what do you guys have? colour coded tree? traditional style? just throw it on?

Maybe i should let her have her choice as i don't have tinsel on me tree either...
 
White lights, blue and silver baubles and tinsel is what we have... I dont go in for the multicoloured lights.
 
White just order a new 200 LED set with silver, gold and perl decorations...was tempted to go for a change this year and order all new as have been using these same decorations for 12/13 years but in the end all I've done is replace the lights as the old set were working less and less
 
100 multi coloured LED's with red and silver baubles and red and silver tinsel.
Only thing missing in my eyes is a train going round the base of the tree :) refuse to by the cheap crap ones from the discount stores but at the same time I ain't gonna bust the bank with a proper hornby job either :p
 
I am a stickler for the old fasioned cheap tacky multicoloured ones, the ones we had as kids in the 80s.
 
Sunlight!

If the daughter wants multi coloured, tell her she's allowed them - at her expense!

TBH, I'm not sure what we've got in the way of outdoor strings. Will have to send Mrs N up into the loft to dig out the box of doom!
 
cambsno said:
I am a stickler for the old fasioned cheap tacky multicoloured ones, the ones we had as kids in the 80s.
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I think it's growing up in the 80's fashion that's done it for me, i remember having multi coloured tinsel, silver string stuff that hangs on the tree, multi coloured lights and those things you hang from the ceiling!:lol: as a kid i thought it was the best house ever but now i've gone totally the opposite
 
stupar said:
100 multi coloured LED's with red and silver baubles and red and silver tinsel.
Only thing missing in my eyes is a train going round the base of the tree :) refuse to by the cheap crap ones from the discount stores but at the same time I ain't gonna bust the bank with a proper hornby job either :p
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Awww now a train yes that would be cool, i'm much the same, i want a decent one but cost is shocking!
 
Nod said:
Sunlight!

If the daughter wants multi coloured, tell her she's allowed them - at her expense!

TBH, I'm not sure what we've got in the way of outdoor strings. Will have to send Mrs N up into the loft to dig out the box of doom!
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I did get her a small box of 50 coloured ones for her room so i think she can make do! she can have her choice when she gets her own tree lol
 
No tree this year - we are hopefully moving house in mid dec , so everything is packed. Incidentally scientific research indicates that real trees last longer with white lights than they do with colours (something to do with not stimulating needle drop - heard on radio 2)
 
MWHCVT said:
White just order a new 200 LED set with silver, gold and perl decorations...was tempted to go for a change this year and order all new as have been using these same decorations for 12/13 years but in the end all I've done is replace the lights as the old set were working less and less
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I've been saying the same for years too lol
 
big soft moose said:
No tree this year - we are hopefully moving house in mid dec , so everything is packed. Incidentally scientific research indicates that real trees last longer with white lights than they do with colours (something to do with not stimulating needle drop - heard on radio 2)
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We've had a really decent fake tree for years but because we are so much mess here neither myself nor Poppy wants to spend hours putting each branch together so it's going to be a real one this year ... i have white lights so i shall record needle drop ( not)
 
yeah you'll be hard pushed to find anyone who really cares - it was mentioned on the 'pointless research' segment on the chris evans show yesterday .

I'm really hoping we don't get another outbreak of morons with chainsaws 'harvesting' xmas trees this year - I just 'love' it when some inconsiderate oaf fells a 40ft douglas fir because he wants the top 5ft for xmas - and then says "but its in the wild so whats the problem' by way of explanation
 
We always had white lights. Haven't had a Christmas tree since my wife moved back to the UK and the kids got their own places a few years ago, but I'd like to get one again. Just can't be bothered to do it for myself.
 
MartynK said:
We always had white lights. Haven't had a Christmas tree since my wife moved back to the UK and the kids got their own places a few years ago, but I'd like to get one again. Just can't be bothered to do it for myself.
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It should be a mission for you now to go out and get one... make it pretty! :D
 
Can't have a tree due to psycho destructocat who would have a field day causing havoc :eek:

....so I have multi-coloured lights in the hedge instead! :D
 
I was sure that we always had multicoloured lights on our tree, until I got my eyes fixed, at which point I found out that they were all white, really.
 
Got to be colour co-ordinated.

Artificial tree in the living room has warm white lights (almost goldy) decorated in red and gold.
Real tree in the hall has cold white lights and is decorated in silver and white.

I'll actually need to buy a new real tree this year. The one we've had was bought potted with root ball intact and has been going for about 4 years. It lives in the garden the rest of the year but the heat this Summer has left it looking too tatty to bring inside. Just hoping that I can get another potted and rooted one.
 
Cg_Girl said:
I've always had just white lights but my daughter asked me this year when we was out if we could have coloured as white are sooooooooooo boring! ( said in a teenage manner ).... I feel guilty now and think, well it is for kids so maybe i should get some and be a lovely mummy:banana:

So what do you guys have? colour coded tree? traditional style? just throw it on?

Maybe i should let her have her choice as i don't have tinsel on me tree either...
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I'd have thought red lights would have been appropriate for you
 
We're too poor to have lights. We'll all be huddled round a candle keeping warm. If it gets really cold, we'll light it.
 
Is this lights question in the OP not a trifle early?
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Is this lights question in the OP not a trifle early?
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I haven't put them up yet although i know loads that already have, i guess for peace and quiet from the children it will be the weekend though
 
Cg_Girl said:
It should be a mission for you now to go out and get one... make it pretty! :D
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Yeah, I know, and we've got a lovely artificial one - real Christmas trees aren't so easy to find in SA - but it's buried in a storage unit with a lot of other stuff and I don't feel starting an archaeological dig to find it! We'll have a proper Christmas with a tree again, once we get things sorted out and decide where to live. I'm voting for sun and warm weather......:)
 
i think we're vetoing having a christmas tree this year. mainly because of the kittens being at home alone with it all day. did toy with putting it in the dining room where we can shut the door but kinda defeats the object.

we'll probably put some lights around the fireplace if that helps though. nice multicoloured LEDs :D
 
I can understand those that have cats/kittens not having a tree... Many years ago i woke up in the middle of the night by a huge crashing sound to find my then cat had tried climbing said tree!.. The tree toppled over and the cat was stuck underneath wrapped in beads baubles the lot!:lol:
 
Cg_Girl said:
those things you hang from the ceiling!
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We had them up last year and have again this year - I love them because they remind me of Christmas as a kid when the entire family would gather at my grandparents :)

We have a black tree with white tinsel. For baubles, we've got metallic cupcakes, red and blue felt hearts with toadstools on from our wedding, red with white polka dots, white with red glitter stripes, a felt robin, a felt reindeer, and a couple of different material owls (wooden and tin). Tree topper is an owl and the tree skirt has owls on it. The "filler" baubles are blue. Lights are white. So red, blue and white I guess!

Our lights are LED with loads of different settings and I went for a "warm white" :)

Thinking of getting a white tree for next year and ditching the tinsel but adding a LOT more different, fun baubles I find.

I also have 2 very boisterous cats. The tree is tied at the top and in the middle to a unit next to it ;)
 
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neil_g said:
i think we're vetoing having a christmas tree this year. mainly because of the kittens being at home alone with it all day. did toy with putting it in the dining room where we can shut the door but kinda defeats the object.

we'll probably put some lights around the fireplace if that helps though. nice multicoloured LEDs :D
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Ah, come on, let the cats have some fun too, it is Christmas after all.

Our little one always knocks a few of the baubles off the tree and does climb it now and then, it's hilarious :lol:
 
I turn the very ends of my (fake) tree over the string from the bobbles so they can't come off - cats have a great time batting the bottom ones :D
 
Cg_Girl said:
I can understand those that have cats/kittens not having a tree... Many years ago i woke up in the middle of the night by a huge crashing sound to find my then cat had tried climbing said tree!.. The tree toppled over and the cat was stuck underneath wrapped in beads baubles the lot!:lol:
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Further settles my argument, cats should not exist.
 
BRASH said:
Further settles my argument, cats should not exist.
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I don't mind them and i used to have one, but we shall get a dog once we are more settled here
 
toadstool said:
We had them up last year and have again this year - I love them because they remind me of Christmas as a kid when the entire family would gather at my grandparents :)

We have a black tree with white tinsel. For baubles, we've got metallic cupcakes, red and blue felt hearts with toadstools on from our wedding, red with white polka dots, white with red glitter stripes, a felt robin, a felt reindeer, and a couple of different material owls (wooden and tin).

Thinking of getting a white tree for next year and ditching the tinsel but adding a LOT more different, fun baubles I find.
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Celing things do remind me of how it used to be, so i'm not sure why i hate them now when xmas at home was lovely..... i like lots of different baubles although i wouldn't mind a colour scheme, but then i know i'll see little things that are then different lol
 
We didn't set out with a colour scheme, it just sort of happened... Christmas is a month after our wedding anniversary and last month was our 1st.. our wedding colours were red and lighter shades of blue :P :lol: I suspect if I see any ornament I like, I'll buy them. Even if they're neon orange :D
 
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