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Christmas Lights For Trees, Walls, Arches and House Exteriors

Types of Christmas Lights

Christmas lights have kept on increasing in popularity over the decades, with ever more flashy, flamboyant and large displays. Even ordinary homes now often adopt commercial style light displays for the festive season, indoors and outdoors. That includes, in some cases, giant animated Christmas decorations with lights.

Most families have lights on their Christmas trees, but they may also appear on wreaths and garlands, as well as hung around windows, trees and bushes in the garden, stairways, door frames, and just about anywhere they can add to the overall Christmas display.

Nearly all Christmas lights are made from incandescent bulbs, but they can bring with them an annual, and frustrating, ritual of checking hundreds of bulbs and replacing those that no longer work. For that reason, and long term savings, many people are now switching to long lasting LED Christmas lights.

However, whatever types of bulbs you use, no Christmas display of decorations is complete without at least some Christmas lights.

Also: Commercial Christmas Lights

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One of the most delightful aspects of the Christmas season, in those countries which celebrate it, is the Christmas light displays. From the simple to the elaborate, from the static to the flashing and animated, we know Christmas is surely coming when those first lights go up.

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My childhood was spent in London, where I recall three major events, each year, that signaled that the Christmas holiday was really upon us, and all involved lights and Christmas decorations. One was the arrival from Norway of a massive Christmas tree to be set up in, some 3 weeks before Christmas Day. The tree is an annual gift from Norway, a tradition started in 1947 as gratitude for Britain's help in World War 2. The lighting of the tree is a major event in the British Christmas calendar, and for many it represents the beginning of Christmas.

The second big occasion was the switching on of the Christmas lights in London's West End, notably Regent Street and later (I seem to recall) Oxford Street. It does not matter, for that event signaled the beginning of the shopping frenzy in Britain's biggest "High Street". Like a starter firing a starting gun at the races, the switching on of the lights was the "off". Once released from the starter stalls, the consumers were let loose into the stores, which were all prepared to lap up their cash right into the New year.

The third big Christmas light event was closer to home. In fact, it was home. Much nearer to December 25 than the big events in the center of town, my father would bring home a modest, but real, Christmas tree. Then, sometimes as late as Christmas Eve, with my help or hindrance, plus that of older sister and brothers, on would go the very modest string of lights plus a few decorations on the tree, plus some streamers on the ceiling and paper ornaments, such as bells, to break their monotony.

Whatever decorations went up, though, it was always the lights that symbolized childhood Christmases.