At the time, tinsel was a decoration that could only be attained by those of high financial status, as it was created using thin strands of real silver. Christmas trees with tinsel glistened as ...

Originally made from thin strands of genuine silver, tinsel was intended to reflect the light of candles on Christmas trees, ...

It takes just 3m of tinsel to do the whole tree ... "This is one of my favourite hacks to make your Christmas tree look more full. Take a few strands of some inexpensive garland, I picked this ...

Even if there’s no tinsel bedecking the trees on our annual Christmas party circuit ... At the time, tinsel was made of real strands of silver that had been hammered thin.

By the 1930s and '40s, families were decorating their Christmas trees with festive candy canes and strands of tinsel. Tinsel added sparkle to the tree, while candy canes could be used as both ...

The idea of modern tinsel is actually said to date back to around 1610 in Nuremberg in Germany. Thin strands of real silver were originally used in Christmas trees there help reflect the light ...

So when you put the tinsel away, save a few strands, and make yourselves into walking-talking Christmas trees all-year-round. Like Mary, the mother of Jesus, let it be a daily reminder that our ...

In 1970, Patricia Nixon trimmed the tree with glass ornaments and tinsel ... look when she decorated the 1975 Christmas tree with paper chains, popcorn strands, and wooden ornaments.

artificial Christmas trees ... remove all of the items on the tree,” Leonard said. “Unfortunately, through our research, we’ve heard that folks will leave tinsel, they’ll leave lights ...