I remember how it would make your fingers all *black* and all the while, we were eating Christmas cookies throughout the evening. Heh.
We hated that job!
I remember how it would make your fingers all *black* and all the while, we were eating Christmas cookies throughout the evening. Heh.
We hated that job!
Oooh, I had forgotten about the black, lol. Mmmm, lead!
The stuff definitely had a trick to it, but once we got going it wasn’t that bad to put up, and we got pretty good at stripping it off and saving it too.
I used to buy extra at the after Christmas sales and put it away with everything else. One year when my kids were little, I needed to open up one of those new boxes to put more on the tree.
Horror! It was some weird plasticky junk that was all wrong. Nope, not the same stuff. So much for that sale. I just thought I had bought a bum brand, so I went out to the store to buy the right tinsel at full price. It didn’t exist! All the tinsel had been corrupted and ruined! I was not amused.
For a couple seasons I was able to scrounge up enough of my old stuff, but once it was unsalvageable, no more tinsel.
That’s my sad tinsel tale. :(
Happy New Year! :)