[RosieCotton]

The trend around here seems to be towards those white "icicle" lights. I don't particularly care them. I like bright colors! I like the multicolors best, I think, but I did do all bright blue one year. Growing up there was one house that always did all blue lights, and I loved the way that looked, so my first Christmas in Germany I set up a little tree all in blue. Looked really nice, actually!

I'm going to keep an eye out for multicolored icicle lights this year - they DO make 'em, they just aren't sold much. They really look neat!

(I refuse to put up lights before mid-December, though...some people seem to put them up BEFORE Thanksgiving!)

[Corin Stormhands]

I liked the white "icicle" lights until everybody got them. But I've seen the multicolored ones also.

I have some green ones for Halloween...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

We have several strings of multi-colored lights that are programmable for about seven different effects... blinking, chasing, etc. Like to put them on random so they go through the whole series one after the other...

It seems most people down here start putting lights up Thanksgiving weekend... I'm such a procrastinator that I don't get to it that early, though.

[SuziQ]

some people seem to put them up BEFORE Thanksgiving!)

LOL! I just left my lights on the backyard tree last year. It is very tall, and I didn't feel like hauling the ladder out in the cold and snow, then by the time it got warm, I figured, why bother! I did take lights off the bushes in front, so I'll have to put those back on in mid-November before the weather gets too cold. We use the tiny white lights in front, but a combo of large and small multicolor lights in the back. We started decorating the one in the back because we can see it from our kitchen table and it is so cheerful to look out there and see the lights, especially when there's been a big snow! We usually light it up on Thanksgiving, the same day I start using my Christmas Dishes. They have a lovely scene of a snow covered village, so I use them all winter long for Thanksgiving, Christmas, company and Sunday Dinner.