h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Keep a thing 47 years and you will find a use for it the saying goes.

All those years ago we made a 5 point star pattern using a school geometry set, cut cardboard stars out of a cornflake packet, covered them with "silver" paper of the type chocolate was wrapped in, then stuck a string on them with sellotape.

Silver stars for the Xmas tree. And sometimes Red, Gold or Purple depending on which chocolate wrappers had been available. These days Silver paper is hard to find as chocolate is wrapped in that useless non-recyclable plastic stuff.

Sadly the family xmas tree decorations are not amongst the things I have been able to keep.

This journal has been brought to you by the colour Silver and the < xmastree > smiley.

You could use cooking foil. Make some new decorations and new memories. and recall the old ones.Don't know if you have anyone to make them with.