Every year in the Girotti household, there arises the annual debate over which color of Christmas lights is the best. We have some members who have the nerve to call multi-colored lights TACKY and GAUDY! Can you believe that? Of course, all sane people know that colorful lights are the perfect, cheerful, Christmas-y choice. :) So, I'm bringing the question to you in the poll below - choose well. (The poll may take a minute to load.)
Edit: Well, at the moment, multi-colored is winning by one vote - 32 to 31 with 2 votes for other! I can't really officially close the poll, so I'll leave it up for now, but I think we'll say that the best option is the official winner. :) Heheh.
~Sarah
We had this discussion for YEARS after we were first married. My family always had multi-colored lights but my husband preferred all white.
I finally settled on all white but insisted on a variety of Christmas ornaments.
My husband is rather severely ADHD and the white calms him... anything to calm him! :)
Posted by: Brenda@Coffeeteabooksandme | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 07:13 AM
LOL I love how biased the poll is!
Posted by: Tammy | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 08:45 AM
I agree with the other Tammy!
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Tammy | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 08:55 AM
We compromise and use white lights on the tree and colored lights outside. Have you ever done political polling? :)
Victoria
Posted by: victoria | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 09:03 AM
What? I am the only one that likes random? Well, I like solid color trees, as long as they are not white.
Posted by: Tonya | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Although your poll is biased, the correct answer IS "multi-colored".
Trees used to be decorated with candles which would fix the onlookers gaze upon them by their flickering. White Lighters must be trying to mimick the candles but what they are missing is that when the flames flicker, multiple colors are produced.
My children say the same, multi-colored lights are cheery and Christmasy and white lights are boring. Unfortunately, my computer can only vote once, so 8 more votes needed to be added to the "Multi-Colored" option.
What a fun blog post! :)
Posted by: Linda in the Evergreen State | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 01:24 PM
For those of us who are indecisive and like ALL the lights, there should have been another option in the poll - ALL of the above!!!
Blessing to all Girotti's and may the best "color" win!!
Posted by: Kathy W. | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 04:24 PM
Well, this debate has gone on in our house for many years. When I was growing up, we had colored lights--the large REALLY, REALLY tacky bulbs. Finally, my dad's heart grew soft and he let us have white lights (he was outvoted 4:1) :). Now, my mom feels a little sorry for him, so, she puts small, multi-colored lights on their small Christmas tree in "The Gathering Room." But, the living room tree and outdoors are all white lights. So pretty! :)
Posted by: Kendra | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 06:02 PM
My side is winning, Sar. :) :)
Go white!!!!
Posted by: Jonathan Girotti | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 07:24 PM
LOL! Sarah, you would probably love our tree this year. My husband went and bought us a new one - without me - because our old one didn't fit in our apartment. He came home with a RETRO tree with the LED version of those old, huge, multi-colored lights that used to be so popular. My first thought was to cry; I hated those lights when I was a little girl! Now that it's decorated, it's fine, but I sure thought it was ugly when he brought it home! LOL
Posted by: Susan | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 07:30 PM
Jonathan, You forgot to add 8 votes to the multi-colored for our 8 children. Unless the rules say one vote per family. You know how some people can be, making new rules half way through a game.... :) That would make it: Multi-colored = 16, White = 11.
Posted by: Linda in the Evergreen State | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 08:29 PM
Definitely WHITE!!!! :) And since we have LOTS of people in our family can we count ALL of their votes too??? :) That would make it 12 votes for white. Now who is ahead?! :) Great post. :) Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by: Chris O'Dorisio | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM
OK... the three in our family vote for multi-colored, Sarah. I, too, tried to vote for all of us, but the poll would take only one vote. I hope you're keeping this tally accurately. Go Colored!!!! :)
Posted by: Rhonda | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Sorry, Deb. We are an all white household. Always have been.
Yup! We are boring and love it that way!!
Posted by: Dawn | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 01:31 PM
Looks like white has an edge on multi-colored. When does the polling close? This is too funny. :)
Posted by: Linda in the Evergreen State | Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:51 AM
What a fun post! In our home, I prefer both. I use a power strip and it's easy to pull out the colors or the whites. I usually prefer both whites and colors during the day but pull out the colors for night time. It must be a big deal because one time a neighbor stopped by and asked what happened to all the colors! (Our tree sits in front of our living room window.)
I also have noticed that Virginians tend to use all white a lot...whereas in San Diego I never once saw all white. Interesting.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Kathie | Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 09:48 AM