Decorate your house with BLUE lights this Christmas!

[blue neen]

:think: We always use red, green, and white lights on our house. The red and green need replaced, so we're going to have a BLUE house this year!

The candelabras in the windows will have blue lights. The outside carriage lamps will be lit blue. The trees and shrubs will be twinkling blue and white.

I'm in the process of making blue bows for the wreaths on the windows.

This will agitate the neo-con next-door neighbors to no end!

Let's show our unity! "Don't let the bastards get ya' down." :toast:

[laura888]

1. nice! great idea! n/t

[Blue Gardener]

2. Excellent Idea

No red lights in sight!

[wicket]

3. "I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas..."

Elvis would be proud :) I love this idea! :thumbsup:

[Dem Agog]

4. Won't people just think you're Jewish?

That's what I always thought. Blue & Gold are the Red & Green of Hannukah.

[blue neen]

9. I'm not using any gold.

But if everybody thinks I'm Jewish, so be it. It doesn't matter. :hi:

[Throckmorton]

54. Who cares if they think your Jewish?

What a strange comment, like something you would hear on FR.

[Dem Agog]

58. Oh please...

My point was that they would not be getting the message they want to get across with the blue lights. I don't care if people think anyone's Jewish or not, but if they want to convey a specific message, they should probably go another route because using blue lights won't work.

[Throckmorton]

61. I couldn't hurt now, could it.

Sometimes subtle statements go further.

[Dem Agog]

68. Maybe not...

But your attitude was uselessly inflammatory by saying that such a statement was something one would find over F.R. when you know good and well that's not at all what I meant.

Your comment was beyond rude and uncalled for.

[blue neen]

65. When everyone sees that big ol' Christmas tree in the picture window,

there will be no confusion about which holiday we're celebrating. Trust me, my neighbor will get the message about the blue lights. :)

[barb162]

64. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Unfortunately, blue lights have already been claimed...

displaying blue lights is a memoriam for a fallen police officer. But hey, display them anyway and you can honor both!

[ornotna]

28. I've been doing blue lights

for over 10 years now. My Mother and Father used to do, so I'm just following a little tradition in my family. I think it looks great.

[barb162]

66. Blue lights are very pretty and I know several people who do

blue with no statement intended; they just like the look.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. everybody will think you are Jewish

that's what MOMT do

[Virginian]

40. or Blue-ish. Go Blue!

[blue neen]

42. I like that! Blue-ish.

It has a nice ring to it!

[andyhappy]

7. DUDE!

thats a great idea!

though I live in an apartment in a city, I will do my windows up as blue as this election has made my heart! :cry:

[blue neen]

18. Hey, go for it.

It'll make your heart happy! :)

[DrWeird]

8. Alright, decorate with black lights.

Have a very trippy X-mas.

[blue neen]

11. "What a long strange trip it's been."

Don't cha think?

[gumby]

10. I'm going blue too.

I heard of a nonpartisan 'blue movement' getting started.

There might be more information sometime after Christmas.

[blm]

12. Cool idea.

Great spirit.

[Lisa]

13. the new LED lights are a nice bright blue

Very distinctive (can tell right away they're not ordinary incandescents). And the bonus is, they use much less energy.



http://www.brite-lite.com/Products/LEDchristmas.htm

[blue neen]

15. Oh, those are gorgeous!

I really like the energy efficiency, too. I wonder if any stores like Target carry them?

Thanks so much for the info!

[kaitykaity]

14. What an amazing idea.

Simple and elegant and powerful. I'm heading up to
Walgreens to get some blue lights.

:yourock:

[graywarrior]

16. Could you go to Target instead?

[kaitykaity]

17. Why??

I don't have a car and Walgreens is within walking
distance.

:shrug:

[graywarrior]

23. I hear ya. Sometimes we must consort with the enemy

especially when we have no car.

[kaitykaity]

24. If the reason is good enough, I'll find a way to get to Target.

Why is Walgreens the enemy? I know about Wal Mart and
won't shop there.

But I don't know about Walgreens. What am I missing?

[69KV]

36. Just thought I'd point out - Walgreens is better than Target

graywarrior, just thought I'd point out for those who want to boycott repig donors, Target is not one of the good guys.

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=N03

Target: #4 political contributor in the retail sector. $289,763 - 28% to Democrats, 72% to repigs.

Walgreens: #10. $126,961 - 47% to Democrats, 53% to repigs.

Either of them are better than Wal-Mart: #1, $1,875,557, 19% to Democrats, 81% to repigs.

[graywarrior]

37. Oops. Cross another one off my list.

Sheesh.

[blue neen]

19. Thanks!

No Republicans grinches are going to steal my Christmas!

[thinkingwoman]

20. I do this every year

I'm jewish.

[blue neen]

21. We can all celebrate together this year!

My brother-in-law is Jewish, too.

[BrklynLiberal]

22. GREAT idea!

I just forwarded your idea and the website to everyone on my email list!! We will light up this entire country in blue lights!!!

[blue neen]

25. I'd love to see blue lights everywhere!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[AP]

26. How bout, 'save your money and don't decorate your house with lights.'

[blue neen]

27. Well, I actually did consider doing that.

We are on an economy kick in this house. But we already have all the white lights, so we just need to get the blue ones.

[AP]

29. If you're on an economy kick, why are you buying more lights?

Ok, if you want to use the electricity to light your house, fine. But why buy more lights when you have lights?

[blue neen]

30. Because we were going to have to replace the red and green ones anyhow.

They're verrry old, and half of them went out last year. We're just replacing those ones with blue ones. And we don't have enough white lights to cover everything.

[blue neen]

31. Okay, we're off to search for the best deal on blue lights.

I'll let you all know what we find. NO China-Mart aka GreatWall-Mart for us, though!

[catzies]

38. blue neen, I have to use that line!

"GreatWall-Mart," LOL. :)

[blue neen]

39. I can't take credit.

I saw it somewhere in my travels on DU. I love that name,too; it says it all! :hi:

[lawladyprof]

32. If you hang seasonal flags--hang a dove of peace

Try flagsonline.com

[blue neen]

33. That's a beautiful idea!

I'll check out that website. Thanks. :hi:

[sandnsea]

35. Definitely

I've been trying to think of ways to make the season mean something. Different kinds of family gifts, and now a new peace dove outside somewhere. Excellent. Thank you!

[blue neen]

34. Lowe's had 100-light sets on clearance for $1.62!

The Target next door had them for$1.79--also not bad.

I also decided to keep my wreaths with the blue bows up until after inauguration day. One more little way to protest. :dem:

[Pithlet]

41. Funny you would mention blue lights.

They were on sale dirt cheap last year and I picked up a few boxes of the all blue indoor/outdoor lights. My husband looked at me like "What are we going to do with all these blue lights?" We never even used them. That's a great idea :)

[blue neen]

43. It sounds like you were a VERY smart shopper!

You somehow knew you were going to need those blue lights. :yourock:

[Pithlet]

46. Yes.

It was all part of my plan :D

[DS1]

44. ewww, blue xmas lights are the tackiest things ever

no freakin' thanks

[blue neen]

45. Everybody to their own opinion.

I can assure you, my Christmas lights never look tacky.

[Pithlet]

47. I reserve that distinction

for those giant nylon blow up decorations.

Which, thinking about this subject reminded me of my mom's neighborhood, where they try to outdo each other in tackiness. I went there last year right after a severe thunderstorm hit, and there was Santa and reindeer and baby Jesus carnage blown everywhere. It was unsettling.

[DS1]

48. There's a house in Wayland MA

I did a seasonal UPS route there a couple winters ago. Nobody else bothered on this one guy's block, because he had his yard packed to the rim with inflatables - including a 12 foot snowman - and about 3 air pumps to keep them all inflated.

[laruemtt]

49. we started doing that a couple of

christmases ago just because i think they looked so pretty when i saw them on other houses. nice to realize they'll even be politically symbolic!

[blue neen]

50. If it's not raining tomorrow, we're going to put our lights up.

You never know when it's going to start snowing around here, so it's best to get the job done when the weather is cooperating.

Plus, I'm excited to see what they'll look like!

[laruemtt]

51. hmmm, now you've got me thinking

of taking a trip up into the attic tomorrow for those blue lights!....

[Digit]

52. Going to try and find black ribbon for front door

...and I can put single candelabras with blue lights in each window.
People may not know what I am conveying, but I will.

[blue neen]

53. Exactly.

It's all about how it makes you feel. :hi:

[ebayfool]

55. I like! Count my house in! n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

56. I like the idea of progressives using the dove of peace

in decorating for the holidays. I like to use either lots of white lights without other colors *or* all different colors in a fifties-retro kind of spirit, but I'm willing to go with white and blue because of the symbolism of blue. I'm getting ideas already. . .

Reasonably skilled people could *make* a dove in outline form with white lights (so it'll look like a dove and not a bluebird!) I'll tell Mr. DemBones to get right on it! ;-)

The "olive branch" in the dove's mouth could be done in BLUE lights.

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It's amazing to me that it's come full circle: I still have my Another Mother for Peace pendant from the Vietnam war and my peace dove silver earrings that a friend who was (and is) a jewelry craftsman and peace activist made for me. All the music still fits, too.


"How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind."

[blue neen]

62. What a fantastic idea---the dove in white lights.

I love it. I think Mr. blue neen is going to give it a try.

I just sat here and sang "Blowin' in the Wind" to him. It brought tears to both of our eyes. Thank you for sharing.

[HarrietBrown]

57. This idea has really cheered me.

Woke up and read about the anti-abortion piece tacked on to the spending bill and how repukes didnt' even show up for Daschle's farewell speech. It really laid me low, but this is a great thing to focus on--we're going to go whole hog this Christmas with blue lights and we're trying to think of other meaningful symbols and signs to put up. THANKS!

[Slowhand16]

59. Great idea. I will have to try it!

[greenohio]

60. Always have. Blue are the best lights.

[barb162]

63. my neighbors have a 15' wide "WE BELIEVE" sign on their

front lawn already. They put it up 2 weeks ago. I always want to ask them what exactly is it you believe and why are you putting that on your lawn?

[FlaGranny]

67. I already have blue lights.

The trim of my house is painted blue. I just painted my bedroom blue. I have blue glass all over the place. I even play "Blue Christmas" on the CD. The seats in my car are blue. Most of my clothing is blue. I've always loved blue.

[neohippie]

69. Great Idea

I'm having a blue christmas already