My wife in her quest to buy cheap and also be ahead of the rest next year at Christmas, bought a bunch of decorations on sale after Christmas. Putting it away I noticed she had a bunch of tinsel which looked a lot like Flashabou and Holographic Flashabou. Priced at 25 cents a pack on sale ... what a deal. I of course grabbed it and have been bench testing the strength, size and also compaction under thread... results .. the same as Flash. Just for your info...