I had never seen tinsel on a flocked tree and I wasn't even sure how to put tinsel on a Christmas tree! I bought the last pack of 1,000 strands from Target and figured surely that would be more than enough. I was warned it would be difficult to get the tinsel off of an artificial tree but I decided to go for it anyway. Once I started throwing on the strands, I realized I was going to need much more tinsel for our 9 ft tree. I was shocked to learn that tinsel was sold out from all of our local stores and Amazon was selling it for 3x the regular price! I guess tinsel is making a comeback!