Where is all the tinsel?

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I know it's no longer seen as popular or tasteful but I'm after some not too expensive bright tinsel for my Christmas tree. Have seen some im JL but it's 8 pounds a go!

They had some in Lidl this morning

My tinsel is between 4 and 26 years old, why are PP talking about it as if it’s disposable?

I'm looking for the white iridescent Angel hair lametta, tried those places suggested but haven't seen any like that. Think it came from B&M originally. Think it'll have to be either garden centre or Amazon.

To a PP - no, everyone doesn't 'need' to buy it. The lamenta stuff is even worse than full on tinsel too because it's dangerous for birds (and it WILL end up where they find it).

What do people NEED tinsel for where other, more sustainable, options are not available? We all need to change our behaviour for the benefit of future generations and the planet. Every little really does help. Not using tinsel is such an easy sacrifice to make - it doesn't make Christmas any less joyous if you have a tinsel-free one!

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To a PP - no, everyone doesn't 'need' to buy it. The lamenta stuff is even worse than full on tinsel too because it's dangerous for birds (and it WILL end up where they find it).

What do people NEED tinsel for where other, more sustainable, options are not available? We all need to change our behaviour for the benefit of future generations and the planet. Every little really does help. Not using tinsel is such an easy sacrifice to make - it doesn't make Christmas any less joyous if you have a tinsel-free one!

It's not your place to dictate anyone else's 'sacrifices', you seem to have a control complex.

My tinsel has never been in the environment or near birds so no it isn't of any risk to birds at all.

We don't even remove it from the tree when putting the tree away so its literally never anywhere but the tree and the tree is either in our living room (nowhere near birds) or in a box in the cupboard.

Why are you so convinced there is tinsel outdoors everywhere?

There simply isn't as nearly every poster has pointed out and you are making an issue where there really isn't one but decided everyone must SACRAFICE for your irrational paranoia.

Ironically though your 'no one should have tinsel' rant means we would all have to dispose of our tinsel into the environment likely lol.

Tesco had some and Wilco's

Nowhere have I said that! This is about buying new tinsel, nothing to do with re-using tinsel that's been in use for years - there's a huge difference.

Tinsel that gets thrown away - and it will - goes to landfill, where it can't break down because it's plastic. Birds see the shiny strands and pick it out.

Obviously it's not outside EVERYWHERE, but my point is that buying new tinsel adds to the environmental problems we have, and there are many many many credible alternatives. It's the fact that we all keep doing the same things and buying the same 'stuff' without thinking about the consequences that makes it so much harder to get out of the mess we're in.

Maybe the fact that the OP found it hard to buy means less is being made, so maybe change is (slowly) coming.

Thank you for the replies! I managed to find some in the garden centre. I don't already own tinsel, having never used it at home ourselves, but I'm a new teacher and I want to make our classroom look festive. I'm aware that not every child in my class will get a happy time at home 🎄

And I'll re use it next year!