fake xmas tree with ugly lights

chris&michele

my inlaws gave us their artificial tree that is beautiful in size and quality but the lights on them are not pretty..they aren't your typical color lights, they are yellow, red, green ...i don't want to use them but it's a prelit tree..do u think it would be worse if i put white lights on them and not plug in the tree's prelit lights?

mrs.starbucks

It would be a huge pain in the butt, but you could always switch out the bulbs...

stargirlsheart

I think it may look like you have a broken tree that you added more lights.  What a bummer

kathryn.ann

Maybe try supplementing with strands of single colored lights? Add a strand of blue or purple here and there to distract from the uglier colors. My mom has a prelit tree but she always adds strings of lights to it because she likes her tree to be half twinkly and half solid.

 

pandasquishy

Did it come in an instruction sheet?  We have a pre-lit tree that says you cannot add additional light strings, the heat from those strings are apparently damaging/dangerous to the ones already there.  I agree with PP, you're better off changing each individual light bulb.

Dyork

mrs.starbucks:

It would be a huge pain in the butt, but you could always switch out the bulbs...

It would be time consuming, but I would suggest this. Just swap them out with white. And as said in PP it probably will look like you have a broken tree if you added lights and don't plug in the tree.

ArtfulSplat!

I have to agree that the tedious business of swapping the colored lights for white ones will probably look the best in the long run.

Section off the tree into manageable sections (any logical grouping based on how it comes apart/folds up to go in the box), then spend an evening swapping all the bulbs in that little section. Get the family to help you by each taking a section, or do one section a night for a week while you watch through all the new DVDs the family got for Christmas. It won't take as long as you think, and when you put it away for the year you'll be glad it's done and actually excited to bring it out next year with the pretty white lights instead! (Conversely, you can plan ahaed and buy the white lights now while Crhistmas stuff is on sale, package the tree and the lights together in the attic, and make a point of taking the tree out and setting it up several days earlier next year so you have time to work on the lights first).

Christmas lights are generally a pain. But they make me smile. And that makes them worth the fuss.

stebbe81

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FirstWorldProblems

Ugh, I hate when I get free stuff, and that free stuff sucks.