Reply #6: Our cat used to love eating that lead stuff... [View All]

[phaseolus]

But, yeah, it was great. Dad, a thrifty soul who grew up during the Great Depression, would reuse it every year.

We also had these cherry hard candies with metal wires embedded in them for tying to the tree, which I loved to eat.

Practically everyone else we knew had one of those lamp fixtures with the PAR40 bulb and the motorized revolving color filters noisily grinding away in a corner, bathing the tree in a pool of light that changed color every few seconds. Our family thought they were tacky back then. Now, of course, the same thing would be extremely cool...