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if you put it back..won't people just revert back to the tried and true...

stop seeing things differently...

I agree we occassionally need a shift in how we see things... sometimes.. to spur our creativity, or to help us see the other side of something.. from a different perspective...

who knows what doors it could open...

besides.. tinsel never looks then same when you try to put it back... *G*

So, crushed-up tinsel is not your idea of a productive paradigm shift? What if you're going for the distressed look?

well if that is the look you are going for.. more power to you

not saying I have never used it ( in fact I have..) just stating the obvious.. that it doesn't llok the same

just because somethig does not look new or like an original.. does not mean it does not have value

only took your wording to mean that you were putting back what was already in place..and to my mind how can that be a paradigm shift.. rehashing the old ... sort of like... I didn't like the new.. so I will go back to the known.. it's safer not having to take a risk with something new or different... surprising how many people resist change.. not because it is bad.. but merely because they feel more comfortable with the "way things are" . Often when the change happens regardless.. they wonder afterwards why they fought it.. because it did improve things..make them better..

"The way things are." Don't the little mice use this as a chapter heading in the film "Babe?"

I like the idea of the tinsel. It's traditional to hang it on the Christmas tree every year, regardless of how it looks. Surely, last year's tinsel (or perhaps it's the same old wadded up stuff you've been putting up for decades) holds only value as nostalgia, and only to those who hang it. I say if you want to live in the now, and prepare for the future, toss that crap.

To really let your Christmas lights shine, hey, why not wrap them around a five-foot high abstract phallus? That would be a paradigm shift. Some people might even call it art. Most people would call it offensive.

Maybe Christmas trees aren't just Christmas trees. *wink*