Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 23, 2018

Tradition and many memories

you’re in denial, mister… just throw away the tinsil and purchase more

Tinsel used to be real aluminum foil shredded into strips, with the consistency of cobwebs and the ability to wrap themselves around everything it touched. These days it’s faux-metallic, MILSPEC, NASA-approved Mylar that still tangles itself, but it’s impossible to break.

Oh, and it comes in a package that requires another tool to open – the dreaded Impervious Clamshell Container.

I switched to tinsel garland years ago. It’s easier to wrap it around the tree & unwrap & store for the next year & not strands around for months clogging the vacuum. Although this year my husband got me a Roomba (for Hannukah). It really GREAT.

Just go with it ! Part of Christmas is using the same stuff over and over again :o)

My mom still has tinsel so old it’s made from lead. She doesn’t use it anymore. I remember hanging and taking it down each year, strand by strand carefully because it broke so easily.

I remember my mother insisting it be hung one strand at a time. I could only stand doing it 2 or 3 at a time. then one year I looked at it and decided it wasn’t all that pretty anymore. sigh,…there went the tradition.

I don’t think you can buy it anymore? Haven’t seen it in any stores for years.

Pluggers as a comic strips tends to trend towards “Pluggers are SOOO broke and/or CHEAP they reuse dollar store tinsel”… ;-)

Haven’t seen ‘tinsel’ in the stores for ages—do they still make it ???

My parents told stories about having one of the few tinseled trees during WWII. Metal was rarioned but my grandparents saved and reused tinsel from earlier years.