I think it's funny... after reading everyone's posts it seems the tree we want as adults is the tree we wanted as a child. To me, tinsel was something I LOVED seeing on my friend's trees but my parents wouldn't go for it... it was too messy. We also never had a real tree growing up... once again, too messy. So now I have a real tree every year! And now that the kids won't eat it, I'm doing tinsel. One thing I keep in tradition with is the colored lights & mish-mash of ornaments my childhood trees always had.
It's just interesting to think of WHY we want our trees a certain way... and how that specific formula is different for us all, but equally magical.
I think I need to do another scrapbook page about the tree...