I’m a simple person. White sparkly lights only on my trees. This year for the first time we engaged the services of an outdoor Christmas light provider/installer - also white only.

Three trees, white, cool white and colored.

Warm white inside this year. Multi-colored outside, except for the faux icicles.

Definitely multicolored! ! ! !

Rusty

Like sealavender, I’ve been putting warm white inside the tree, multi outside. It adds a nice depth.

A tree as colorful & gaudy as can be with twinkling lights to mesmerize Santa into leaving extra gifts ;-)

I like white lights. The warm white, not the newer blueish colored ones that just look horrible. Our town changed their pole light Christmas lights to those quite a few years ago and I really hate them.

The strands I bought this year are changeable to all sorts of colors and patterns. I'm having fun trying out different ones each day. That said, in general, I prefer warm white and if I could find the old-fashioned random twinkle lights, I would buy all of them.

Warm white on the tree. No lights outside.

I use white on my big indoor tree but about 10% of them twinkle on and off randomly. My small tree is mutli-colored.

seagrass_gw Cape Cod

We both like the old fashioned large colored lights from our childhoods - red, green, white, orange and blue. We still buy a cut balsam tree, but they get shorter and shorter each year. We now just put one on a round table with a skirt around it. DH loads it up with lights. We might bother topping it with something, but we don't put ornaments on it anymore. Too much effort on both ends of the holidys. We just enjoy the lighted tree.

I have the old screw-in multi-colored bulbs and twinkle lights and white bubble lights. They're at least thirty years old. I use the white mini lights to provide light mostly inside the tree.

I do a mix of all warm white bulbs…faceted, smooth pearl and twinkly white. I also use LOTS of warm white fairy lights around the house for wreaths, mantels and plants. I like to ”spiral” them around poinsettias I have outside. The lights are so lightweight and easy to work with. They almost ”float” around the poinsettias. They can also be nice inside lanterns or in a container with some ornaments…similar to these inspiration pics I’ve saved.

“I’ve been putting warm white inside the tree, multi outside.”

bpath, you reminded me of a neighbor who uses larger, multi-colored lights outside with little white twinkly lights mixed in. Also nice!

White are fine but i’m kind of over them. My fake tree in the front room as well as the wreath in the front window are all white, my real tree and any other lights I string up myself are colored. I'll probably change my mind again at some point but for now colors seem more fun.

When I was younger, and was dedicated to having a real tree - always a balsam - I wanted only tiny white lights on the tree and colored lights outdoors. Now that I'm old, I prefer colorful lights everywhere - and have a vintage aluminum tree that I can't put lights on. Unfortunately, it's in a storage unit this year, and I lost all our outdoor lights to Helene's flooding. My big container of vintage ornaments survived tho.

I have a couple strings of vintage colored C7 bulbs I'd like to put up, and I also plan to grab some of the free branches at Home Depot and put them in a vase with some ornaments for a mini 'tree'.

I use only red and white lights, not clear but white They are this style, which I bought over 40 years ago. They’ve slowly burned out or quit working and I could never find replacements - until until last year they showed up on amazon. I bought them after the holidays and am so happy to have a new supply this year.

“…and I also plan to grab some of the free branches at Home Depot…”

Carol, I do that every year.👍🏻

The give away branches? From the trees they sell? Nice.

I've never had my own Christmas tree, probably because I've never had children, but if I did have one, I would want multi-colored lights.

All the colors!!

We like the multi-colored lights the best. We find the white to be kind of boring. I have a display of all snowmen on the fireplace that I have blue and white lights on with a snow looking garlands around their feet.

Yes - colored lights feel more cheerful to me than white ones 🙂

“The give away branches? From the trees they sell?”

Yes, cuttings (mostly lower branches) from the trees they sell. They’re happy to have you take all you like. I love using them for various things, such as this lamp post swag.

All my lights both inside and out are white these last years. I grew up with multi-colored (yes, the type that could burn you and left browned spots on the tree you would notice when taking it apart after the holiday - 'undecorating') but while I enjoy them in others homes, I prefer the all white here.

I have to be careful what I use for color near windows. Most of my living room and part of my dining room are floor to ceiling windows. We have year around hummingbirds, in fact I've got to lay things out to clean and refill feeders just as soon as DH is free to get them for me, they are due to be refreshed. A day late in fact. He can reach them from the ground, I can't.

Anything red or different close to a window is inviting injury to a bird which has become important - DH really enjoys the hummingbirds. He feeds hummingbirds and woodpeckers but doesn't intentionally encourage anything else to eat here.

How many and how often can you go back for these 'extra cut off branches"? My peeps and I have been making our porch pots--from greens we scrounge out of our yards or trip upon. This year we stopped at a house near our church, a storm and done quite a lot of damage to their spruce trees. They let us fill the back end of the car. We LOVE making pots!!

“How many and how often can you go back for these 'extra cut off branches"?"

I’ve only gone once each year, but I’m sure they wouldn’t care if you went back. As I mentioned, they always seem happy to get rid of them. Your pots are pretty!!!

Thank you chloebud! It's insane how easy, and cheap they are to put together when you consider what they charge you for them this time of year.

Yes, easy and cheap! Yours would be pricey to buy, for sure. Our local nurseries charge quite a bit for a ”bundle” of cut holiday greens. I think Trader Joe’s sells them for maybe $10. Not bad but free is better!👍🏻

I like the multicolored only. And I like the ones that twinkle and flash and sparkle. I guess white lights are okay for the warm, elegant look. But that is never what I am going for.

As long as the lights are in a warm tone, I'm fine with them - one thing I don't care for is cold toned lights.

A prior neighbor of ours used to use these ”falling snow” lights. This video of some is from online. Hope it works.

I have both , but usually use the multicolored. I still have my original 1972 GE multi colored, but I have not used them since the 80’s?

We bought a new artificial tree this year. The old one was getting shabby, and I was tired of putting lights on it. They never looked as nice as the pre-lit trees.

The one we bought has lights that you can change from white to milticolored. You can make them flash too, but I don't like that. I had planned to buy one with all warm white lights, but I find myslf happily switching back and forth.

As a person who lost a home to fire I don't want in any way lights that leave scorch marks on a highly flammable thing. My DH gave me a tiny smoke alarm for my tree years ago. That ought to be on the thread for romantic thoughtful gifts. My house was struck by lightening but the fear spreads.

I have clear Leds of two sorts. Some are tiny little blueish things that I use up top for stars amidst my various angels and warm white larger Leds for the majority of my tree. I had to give in and get artificial last year since I can no longer go to the tree farm for my tree. I miss the smell.

Fiber optic artificial tree about 4 ft tall (to put on table.)

Indoor trees are multicolored. Outside, all decorations are blue and white lit

I'm allergic to trees so we have artificial. It has multiple light patterns and I love multicolor in a slow fade. I don't love flashing lights, they seem too hectic for me.

If people are still reading this thread, there was a News item last night about certain ”remote control” (wireless) Christmas tree lights dimmer, on off ontroller that was malfunctioning, overheating and could cause a fire 🔥🔥⚡️

Look online for more info. And when you read the warning, please keep in mind that we DO need government agencies to monitor and test various things.

These agencies should NOT be privatized — unless you want wholesale grift as in certain autoracies. Sleep with your eyes open these coming days.

I wanted to be able to choose I strung 200 white lights and 400 multi. Here’s all white

Multicolored

Both together

Beautiful!

Lovely!

Multi colored for me, inside and out. A few years ago our local Menard's had these lovely glass star shaped and also ball shaped (both about 2" across) multi colored lights - only about 10 lights to a strand, so I bought 3 of each. I haven't put up a tree the past couple of years, so instead I have strung them up on my fireplace along with the colored C6 and one of those small net lights in white.

I've not been able to put up my porch and door decor this year, not that it was anything more than a wreath and a double strand of C7 bulbs along the front and side. First time in 32 years no lights!

That's clever Michele!

Thanks!