[Slyfox]

We got one of these, without the color wheel, because my mom became allergic to pine.
The first year we had it everyone was disappointed, so the next year my dad spray painted
it green.

[niteowl77]

The aluminum Christmas tree! One of my dad's sisters had one of those, and it really was the slowly rotating color wheel that made it desirable. I remember sitting close to the color wheel, watching the colors change… sitting there because it was not only semi-hypnotic, but also because it was a little bit warmer near that incandescent bulb. (That house could be COLD!)

The lead-based tinsel was what I grew up knowing, and the substitute was not received well in our family. I guess getting crap tinsel and paint that sucks was a small price to pay to allow FedGov to begin handcuffing science and manufacturing to Marxist social engineering.

Mr. niteowl77