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Lowe's Christmas Lights: Holiday Living 100-Count LED $2.50, GE 100-Count LED
& More + Free Store Pickup$3.25
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Next year I'll take the hit and repurchase all the lights in the front of my house for incandescence instead of LEDs.
LEDs are aesthetically AWFUL. They defile the appearance of Christmas as far as I'm concerned. I do hope they get there someday, but they're not anywhere close yet.
And yes, I bought warm white. I keep the lights on a tight timer (5pm-9pm) so I am okay with taking the energy bill hit. It's only a few weeks a year.
When I first got married and we got our first tree I also bought some colored LED bulbs thinking it was the smart thing to do for energy efficiency. I strung up the tree, plugged it in and BAM our living room lit up with all the warmth of a UFO abduction.
Straight back to the store I went for incandescent lights, and have ever since. Saving energy is great but if I can't relax by the Christmas tree what's the point?
Side note: yes, I'm aware you can get warmer color temperature white LEDs, and while they are more pleasant than the garish colored ones, they still don't emit the full spectrum of light that incandescent ones do (which results in eye strain). High CRI LEDs do exist now which emit nearly 100% of the visible light spectrum, but as long as low quality, low CRI LEDs are cheaper to produce then that's what will be used in string lights.
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And RGB
Incandescent colored = red and orange focused lighting
LED colored = blue and green focused lighting
At the end of the day, I grew up with the aesthetics of one from my childhood and not the other. Incandescent colored mini lights are so much more beautiful than the piercing green and blue spotlights of LED colored mini lights that it's not even funny.
Also personally not a fan of twinkle.
Incandescent colored = red and orange focused lighting
LED colored = blue and green focused lighting
At the end of the day, I grew up with the aesthetics of one from my childhood and not the other. Incandescent colored mini lights are so much more beautiful than the piercing green and blue spotlights of LED colored mini lights that it's not even funny.
Also personally not a fan of twinkle.
Also the incandescent multicolor lights have a coating that chips off
The LED's have globes that are moulded in transparent plastic the color of the light so they can't chip or fade
Plus there won't be stock. Now that it's on final sale people are clearing out the stores FAST. I was in NJ last weekend and they had 100's and 100's of the different types left. Now online stock shows that's almost entirely depleted.
I don't understand the lengths that people will go to around here to save 15¢.
I don't understand the lengths that people will go to around here to save 15¢.
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