aluminium Christmas Trees

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Dina wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/25458 :

<< I just heard my mom *had* one of those aluminum Christmas trees
from over thirty-five years ago... Y'all, those things are going for
$500-1000 now if they're in good shape! One of those 'should've kept
it' moments. :-\ >>

and in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/25465 :

<< You can imagine the 'jaw dropping' at the realization a possible
revenue of hundreds of dollars was simply... *trashed*. >>

It's like the old comic books that every middle-aged man whines that
his mother threw away when he was a kid: they're only valuable now
because they're rare, and they're only rare now because most people
who had them have thrown them away. If everyone had kept theirs (in a
storage locker?) to wait for the price to go up, the price wouldn't
have gone up.

Erin wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/25469 :

<< we had a light that sat under it and shined up on it that had a
colored wheel that turned so the whole thing went from red to green to
yellow to blue. OMG. how could anone have liked that? >>

We also had one of those (it was my brother's idea -- he is two years
younger than me), but we had a, y'know, *biological* tree (not "live"
because it was chopped) and the light wheel didn't have much effect on
it, not even on the "silver" tinsel.

<< i also remember her having this round ball with little plastic
threads sticking out. when on the ends of the threads were lit up and
would glow. >>

Half-round, right? A fiber-optics light show, where the glow at the
tips of the fibers changes because of a secret color wheel over the
light bulb hidden in the base. I have one of those, too, but it has,
alas, been in storage a very long time, as certain cats insisted on
"hunting" the fibers ...