Do you put tinsel on your Christmas tree?

[Saffron]

When I was a child, that was my favorite part of decorating the tree! I loved it! Now, I don't. Do you put tinsel on your tree?

 

[Deb & Bill]

Yep, one strand at a time.

 

[Rajah]

I need another option -- No, because tinsel is dangerous for kitties.

 

[Boots]

Nope not anymore! We used to all the time. But we quit when we stopped using a real tree.

 

[dizneenut]

Nope. I don't like it.

 

[SuiteDisney]

Absolutely not! No one with pets should have tinsel.

 

[browneyes]

I put loads of the silver on there. I sure do hate cleaning it up though.

 

[Serena]

LOL, yep, one strand at a time also.

I didn't have it when I had cats. Tooo dangerous. But my Maxie doesn't bother it at all.

 

[shep]

nope

 

[minniecarousel]

I'm with Rajah on this one. Tinsel + cats doesn't work. I like the way it looks, very nostalgic for me too.

 

[Kermit]

Nope. It wouldn't be good for the dog or my sanity. We have to have an artificial tree because DH is allergic to real ones. I can't imagine taking all the tinsel off every year.

 

[sammi]

No we don't put "icicles" up as we also have to worry about our "fur babies". I wouldn't want them to get sick.Cats are really attracted to anything sparkly and love to eat it.

 

[JAP]

I never liked tinsel. It always took up too much time and is messy.

 

[phins_jazy]

nope

 

[tiggerlover]

Yes, I love my tinsel, but it can only be gold and I put it on one strand at a time (or a couple at a time, but no clumps). I also remove it one strand at a time because it is so hard to find the kind that I like that I reuse it every year.

On a side note, I have had a cat for 16 years and have never had a problem with him and the tinsel.

 

[cinmell]

No. We used to use tinsel when I was little but haven't used it in years. It's too messy for me.

 

[Blondie]

We use garland.

One year we strayed, and tried the tinsel, but it's just too darned messy.

I think the tinsel tends to shine better, and therefore looks prettier, but we stick with the garland.

 

[Robinrs]

I grew up with tinsel also, and spent many a Christmas pulling it out of my dog... don't ASK which end!! Let's put it this way, it comes out INTACT!

Now with 4 cats, no, I will not be pulling it out of my babies. We do put it up on my parents' tree, though, since they don't have animals, now.

 

[Lanshark]

I used to put it on all of my trees until one of my cats, about 15 years ago, was walking around with tinsel coming out of her..... Well, you know. (_o_)

Well after pulling it the rest of the way out I have never felt quite the same about tinsel again. I have cats, therefore I have not tinsel and my cats must find some other way of decorating their rear ends. After talking to the vet I found that we were actually pretty lucky that it didn't knot around her intestines.

I feel you need a CATagory that says

"Really like it but found gross things happen when a cat eats it so I don't use it anymore"

 

[addicted_to_WDW]

Growing up, my mom put so much tinsel on the tree that you couldn't see the ornaments. It was so tacky, but I would give anything to see my mom's tacky tinsel tree again.

We have cats, so we can't use tinsel. I think if we didn't have cats we would pile it on just like mom did.