Ann Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Christmas Tree....Tinsel or No Tinsel ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 Definitely no tinsel for me. I have always had cats and it seems like tinsel attracts cats like nothing else in the world....except catnip. I actually tried using tinsel a few years ago after Dennis saw a tree done with some really fancy tinsel he liked. I tried to duplicate that tree. In the middle of the night, I heard one of the kitties coughing and jumped out of bed to find a little bit of tinsel hanging from his mouth. Well, when I started pulling on that tinsel, you would have thought there were yards of the stuff inside that little cat. It just kept coming. Reminded me of a magician pulling a scarf out of his sleeve...lol! So, no more tinsel for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Wood Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 If you mean the silvery shreds you toss on the tree, we stopped using that long ago. Too much of a mess. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ry Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 No tinsel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmek Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 yukkkk(the mess), not on my tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muriel Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 No tinsel! Tinsel was an "issue" for my parents. My mother wanted each piece hung separately, while my dad's approach was to stand back and toss the tinsel at the tree. Finally, the tinsel hanging was left to my mother. Muriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchurchi Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 No tinsel. 1st becuase of our Cat and 2nd I think it takes away from the ornaments, which are most important to Alan and I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tami Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 okay.. I'll be the odd one. Yes, tinsel for me. I guess part of the reason i love it is the old memories it brings. Remembering how my mom would put it on strand by strand and we as kids would just kind of toss handfuls all over. Now my kids and I do the same thing and they think it's so funny to toss clumps of it on the high branches while I try to put it on real evenly.. Then how the strands get all full of static and stick to your clothes when you walk by. I guess it just reminds me of when I was younger. Mess... are you kidding? By the time i get the tree down I've got tinsel, needles and everything else all over my house. I guess that's part of the fun for me! Oh yes.. I do have cats. Funny, they haven't tried to eat it, at least not that I've noticed. All they do is break my ornaments.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I didn't even know tincle was still around. Maryanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geri Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 No tinsel any more, partly because of our cat but mainly because I'm married to a tinsel tosser and I put it on one piece at a time. Geri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick C Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Me, no tinsel...wife, loves the stuff. I tell her she want's it, she has to pick it off (Fake tree). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 No tinsel here, but mom always had it on the tree. I called it her hodge podge tree because nothing matched and there was no theme, just mostly ornaments that us kids and grandkids had made her. It was my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Huguley Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Wow...haven't thought about tinsel in a long time...too much of a mess for me....smile... No tinsel... Love, Tracey Huguley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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