You also had a husband and two boys that individually are taller then most mature trees. I think that they could have come down earlier if you had wanted it too. So no getting out of it... you are responsible for the early and late end of winter. Let me ask you this... do you want to build a snowman?
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Okay, okay ... I’ll give you a hint.
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Sadly, I only bought one set of @Eric1955 bubble lights. $45 for a string of 7.
I swore I wasn’t going to decorate until tomorrow, but we’ll see.
I don't think my daughter will let me put ours up this year. She said her babies may get in it and we may never get them out plus they may eat the decorations
You are correct. I just looked it up again and it is listed as Classic Tinsel the new cheaper stuff is about $2. Even then it would look pretty silly just laying on my floor in the corner. A thousand pardons.
I LOVE tinsel. Cover the tree with it. Baffles everyone that knows me because it goes against all of my OCD nonsense to have those strands all over the house but it’s not a tree if it’s not covered in the stuff.
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Absolutely. This talk reminded me of when I was a kid and my sister and I loved multi-colored lights on the tree and my Dad always wanted just blue lights. After a lot of whining on our part he finally compromised and we alternated every other year. Ton's of tinsel on either one, but, I hated the blue lights. Flash forward about 40 years and all of a sudden I decided that it might be fun to have those blue lights again and then they were all I would use. I'd sit and just stare at the blue lights reflecting off the ornaments and the tinsel, of course. This was after the my divorce and the kids were off creating their own Christmas memories. Then I just lost that spirit.
My grandmother always used tinsel and angel hair on her trees until the Christmas she diedI go through phases with tree decorations. When I'm in a retro phase, I'll use tinsel, too. This reminds me of a family on the street where I lived, as a kid. They had 8 children, and the tree decorating was quite a "production" for them. Have to say, I've never seen such a perfectly beautiful tinsel display. First of all they always had a HUGE tree in their livingroom (they lived in a big house). They each counted out (no, I'm not kidding) multiple groupings of 8 strands of tinsel, and put those groupings aside, laid flat on a table. (So, well over 100 groups, anyway.)
Then, I think it was 2-3 sets (of 8) for each branch on the tree. This took a long time. But man, what a gorgeous display it was. (P.S.: They had many boxes of tinsel, whereas we had 1 box for our tree at home -- and we just chucked it up, willy nilly, on the branches!
Tinsel is supposed to recreate icicles hanging from a tree. There would be no set pattern for that so just taking a bunch and throwing it at the tree and leaving it were it lands is the way to do it. I think it is a law someplace.I go through phases with tree decorations. When I'm in a retro phase, I'll use tinsel, too. This reminds me of a family on the street where I lived, as a kid. They had 8 children, and the tree decorating was quite a "production" for them. Have to say, I've never seen such a perfectly beautiful tinsel display. First of all they always had a HUGE tree in their livingroom (they lived in a big house). They each counted out (no, I'm not kidding) multiple groupings of 8 strands of tinsel, and put those groupings aside, laid flat on a table. (So, well over 100 groups, anyway.)
Then, I think it was 2-3 sets (of 8) for each branch on the tree. This took a long time. But man, what a gorgeous display it was. (P.S.: They had many boxes of tinsel, whereas we had 1 box for our tree at home -- and we just chucked it up, willy nilly, on the branches!
When I was a kid the lights on the tree were very hot. Angel hair was rumored to have been a massive fire hazard so we never had any of that, but metal based tinsel was not going to burn. BTW, the advantage of those hot lights was to warm the sap in the pine trees and create that magical Christmas tree smell. There are at least two or three generations now that have never really experienced that little perk full force.
