So, what happened to tinsel?

[Bearsinmotion]

Did I miss the memo? Nowhere sells tinsel any more. I haven't looked at buying Christmas stuff for at least a decade ages until this year, and tinsel seems to be completely passé! When did that happen?!

Asda have loads in.

Love the cat story DS will try the same. Now have 6 strings, red, gold and silver from Dunelm and pink, purple and green from Tescos. Got them home and DD announced her favourite colour is now orange not purple and can we get some Orange tinsel .

I am still on the lookout for blue then my tinsel collection will be complete!

Blue is my favourite tinsel colour, I use quite a lot of it. Not on the tree though, that is my inly strict rule when it comes to decorating, hanging down things only on the tree.

How can you make the dc an angel costume without a tinsel halo? I've kind of phased it out at home but it does have a very distinctive smell which strongly reminds me of childhood Christmases.

I love it. I also don't have it on the tree but pile it up in bowls that are around the house

landoflostcontent our cats must be related. Our very own dimwit cat did the same. He had a little second tail of what was once silver tinsel hanging off his bot until Boxing Day. Tinsel is now banned, and doubly so since DS2 will have a go at eating literally anything.

Haha Ipswich - you wouldn't think there'd be two cats daft enough to eat tinsel so they must be related, if only distantly (Emily Trubshaw sadly no longer with us) She was never very bright - we had a sliding door to the kitchen and when it was open (ie the door covering a blank wall and the way to the kitchen fully open) she would sit in front of the door scratching to be let through...

I read on another thread that the smell of Christmas is warm tinsel and I lived that! That tinsel smell takes me right back to my grandparents as a wee girl.
I fill the inner tree with thick tinsel so it reflects the fairy lights.

I got loads in Dobbie's last year.

I personally think that tinsel is due a comeback. It just needs to be called vintage.... something. I even saw 3 colours of lametta available at B&M today. And yes, that smell, heavenly. It could be a new yankee candle flavour.

The little tesco near my work had some today.

prof was it the fine lametta - which used to be called angel hair, I think? I haven't found any for years, only "course cut" as it were, and wondered if there was some health and safety reason - perhaps due to something similar to the tinsel/cat problem.

Did those tinsel eating cats come down with tinselitis

Arf