Help find some stringy, threadbare tinsel 🤪

[WashableVelvet]

Just like when I was little (in fact, my parents still have it). Everywhere seems to sell the fat kind that lollops through your tree like a furry Superworm.

I found this pleasingly scraggly one but it’s only in red or silver and I think I want gold…

Look on Ebay for vintage tinsel. I've just got a big lot of it! I bloody love thin, scraggy tinsel!

'Lollops' is such a great word.

Could you buy some lollopy tinsel and then prune it?

I've got thin straggly gold and silver tinsel, I think I got it from Poundland a few years ago

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272389909159

Am so glad it’s not just me that hankers doesn’t the old stuff!

EBay has …648 results… for second hand tinsel. My word 😮
Thank you for the tip! Judging by the prices, I had better try in Jan for next year.

Shall we now discuss how nice it is that you can still buy incandescent ‘pickwick’ lights and what a ballache it is that they still blow if your 4yo so much as looks at them?

If anyone finds any garish, one micron thick wrapping paper, with a highly repetitive picture of a kneeling reindeer on, please let me know?

I yearn for proper retro 70's wrapping.

I got my skinny/scraggly tinsel from ikea - works a treat with my multicoloured Pickwick lights and old glass baubles!

@GertrudeBElion Poundstretcher had some corkers last year, but unfortunately all foiled or with glitter

@WashableVelvet

EBay has …648 results… for second hand tinsel. My word 😮 Thank you for the tip! Judging by the prices, I had better try in Jan for next year.

Shall we now discuss how nice it is that you can still buy incandescent ‘pickwick’ lights and what a ballache it is that they still blow if your 4yo so much as looks at them?

Watch the 1982 Terry & June Christmas Special (it's on Britbox, there's a free trial). Reminded me so much of our misbehaving Pickwick lights when I was a child!

I got some from poundland