Oldies, do you remember the lead icicles? They were fun to ball-up between your fingers. Dad always said not to eat them, so of course I had to taste. They were a little sweet. The cat loved them.
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"I was saying something to a co-worker about the lead icicles on my tree, and got a blank look. “Guess I’m going to have to look that one up,” he said. “You mean… real lead?”
I had to explain that they were cut into thin strips, and hang off of the branches, one strip on a branch.
I guess I was still a kid when they stopped selling these. But we always had lead icicles on the tree, and when they were deemed unsafe, and the icicles all changed to mylar or other kinds of plastic, very few of us were looking ahead to stockpile the old kind. After about 40 years of the nonsense of mylar icicles blowing across the tree with the slightest breeze, and finding their way all the way through the cats’ digestive systems, I did an eBay search for the good old days.
I got some for $10 about 7 years ago, but they’re still out there today:"
https://jeannekasten.com/tag/lead-icicles/
"I was saying something to a co-worker about the lead icicles on my tree, and got a blank look. “Guess I’m going to have to look that one up,” he said. “You mean… real lead?”
I had to explain that they were cut into thin strips, and hang off of the branches, one strip on a branch.
I guess I was still a kid when they stopped selling these. But we always had lead icicles on the tree, and when they were deemed unsafe, and the icicles all changed to mylar or other kinds of plastic, very few of us were looking ahead to stockpile the old kind. After about 40 years of the nonsense of mylar icicles blowing across the tree with the slightest breeze, and finding their way all the way through the cats’ digestive systems, I did an eBay search for the good old days.
I got some for $10 about 7 years ago, but they’re still out there today:"
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