Why do rich people like white Christmas lights?

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Also, it's not just the color of the lights themselves how they are displayed that can make or break the design and display on the home. You can have sheity looking white lights, if they aren't hung right.

QFT actually. But it is easier to not be tacky with white lights, or at least solid colors.

 

[petey117]

Originally posted by: Shame
Page 143 in the Rich People Manual, second paragraph.

Obviously you didn't read page 12, paragraph 7

"First rule of Rich people, never talk about rich people"

 

[palswim]

Am I the only one who read this as "Why do rich white people like Christmas lights?"? I was going to say... I didn't realize Christmas lights were so racial!

 

[Mr Pepper]

I don't put up lights.

Who needs em? It seems like there are plenty of stupid, half-deflated snow-globe things and epileptic reindeer squirming around on their sides already out there for my holiday cheer.

Now if I had a lamp in the form of a woman's leg... That I would put up for sure.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Mr Pepper
Now if I had a lamp in the form of a woman's leg... That I would put up for sure.

Here you go

Smaller/Cheaper version

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: DaShen

Originally posted by: LookingGlass
Also, it's not just the color of the lights themselves how they are displayed that can make or break the design and display on the home. You can have sheity looking white lights, if they aren't hung right.

QFT actually. But it is easier to not be tacky with white lights, or at least solid colors.

well, several years ago, when my brother was still an undergrad and living in a house with a few pals of his; they concocted a scheme to spell "HO-HO" on their roof (kind of tilted, so you could see it from the street).

they used white lights, and ran out. All it said was "HO"

i'd call that a tacky use of white lights.

 

[Randum]

400-500k "rich suburb?"

I dont know houston....but.....in that case I know some suburbs they should all have white lights and "rich items" about their 1/4 acre of 1 bedroom goodness! not a poke, just think its interesting how relative house costs are if you move about the country

 

[IceBergSLiM]

they may have HOA rules about exterior lighting.

 

[oCxTiTaN]

multi-colored, while traditional, are tacky. This is our tree from last year: http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7116/imgp2223jw8.jpg I like the whole silver/gold/white/etc better than red blue green orange, blech

 

[Kev]

rainbow colored lights are trashy and unchristmassylike

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Every house in my brother's neighborhood ($400-500k houses) has all white Christmas lights. I guess it's seen as classier, to the point where no one at all has colored lights. What compels these people to be so bland and whitebread that even their Christmas lights lack color?

Edit: I realize 400-500k is not a lot in most highly populated parts of the country, but this is in a Houston suburb, and one of the most expensive subdivisions in this area. It's expensive enough for Slim Thug to have a house there.

Does your brother live in Northwest near Bear Creek Park? There are some ritzy neighborhoods there with very colorful lights--we drove through the ones with open gates just to see the lights.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Every house in my brother's neighborhood ($400-500k houses) has all white Christmas lights. I guess it's seen as classier, to the point where no one at all has colored lights. What compels these people to be so bland and whitebread that even their Christmas lights lack color?

Edit: I realize 400-500k is not a lot in most highly populated parts of the country, but this is in a Houston suburb, and one of the most expensive subdivisions in this area. It's expensive enough for Slim Thug to have a house there.

Does your brother live in Northwest near Bear Creek Park? There are some ritzy neighborhoods there with very colorful lights--we drove through the ones with open gates just to see the lights.

No. Rock Creek.

 

[Andyb23]

I used to live in a pretty rich neighborhood in NJ, much richer than any southern or midwestern 'wealthy' community. And we had colored lights.

Never saw the problem...
'

 

[cmv]

White lights for the FTW.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: cmv
White lights for the FTW.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Randum
400-500k "rich suburb?"

I dont know houston....but.....in that case I know some suburbs they should all have white lights and "rich items" about their 1/4 acre of 1 bedroom goodness! not a poke, just think its interesting how relative house costs are if you move about the country

Yeah yeah, we've heard all this crap before. California beats you hands down in the e-penis measuring contest.

 

[3NF]

We use black lights ...

 

[LeadMagnet]

Rich people need more big dancing inflatable junk on their lawns, a plastic Santa set, and prelite deer. Now that is the true meaning of Christmas.

 

[uberman]

Affluent white people like white Christmas lights because it's a race issue. It's always a race issue.

 

[Vic]

Why is this thread still alive?

Anyway, suburban upper middle class in their vanilla-and-white-bread McMansions != rich

 

[XprincoX]

All the houses around have both colored and white lights...

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Every house in my brother's neighborhood ($400-500k houses) has all white Christmas lights. I guess it's seen as classier, to the point where no one at all has colored lights. What compels these people to be so bland and whitebread that even their Christmas lights lack color?

Edit: I realize 400-500k is not a lot in most highly populated parts of the country, but this is in a Houston suburb, and one of the most expensive subdivisions in this area. It's expensive enough for Slim Thug to have a house there.

Having mixed color lights is just tacky imo, My parents stick to white on the bushes and trees and such. At most I would go with white and blue.

 

[soccerballtux]

Colored lights are tacky my friend, tacky.

 

[newParadigm]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
I like the colored lights. A simple string of colored lights along the gutter on the front of a house looks very nice.

Only if they're the old fashonied 1 inch wide bulbs. Then they look pretty chique