[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Grace Cangialosi]

The stuff now is made of something like Mylar which has absolutely no weight to it, so it doesn't really hang like the old stuff did.

> On Dec 23, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I can remember fussing over tinsel on the Christmas tree at home in
> NW Wisconsin.  My partner, Wilfred, is enormously talented  decorating
> Christmas trees, and we usually have several trees throughout the  house
> with different themes.  To my surprise, he did one tree this year  primarily
> in tinsel.  I didn't even realize you could by the stuff any  more.
> 
> 
> David S.
> 
> 
>> One of the odd things my mother did when we were kids in the 1960s  (she
>> died Christmas morning in 2010) was to save the tinsel that she  hung on
> the
>> tree.  She felt a Christmas Tree wasn't a true tree  unless it had tinsel
> on
>> it.  I wonder if, her being a child of  the depression, made her save
>> things...but tinsel?  That must  have been made of gold, not silver.
>