Well,look here, I have had 50 years of tinsel on trees,, its quite nice really, but I don't have a tree anymore. I live alone,and still have some old tinsel,in red and green, so I put it around the brass fender of my wood burning stove.and have a few lights in the window, and that's it.
I don't know if anyone would remember this, but years and years ago, people had a kind of strip of plastic string thing around the Christmas trees, and there were little cup things along it,in which you put a little candle. then you would light all the candles on the tree at night.