Not only did Australians manage to elect a prime minister who doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, but now we seem to be running a concentration camp for refugees. On top of that, this lucky country produced 22 year old Mat Carpenter who thought of a seriously great business idea: Ship glitter bombs to your enemies with a shitty note for $9.99.
He soon got so sick of his own stupid idea that he put his website up for sale. “Please stop buying this horrible glitter product”, he tweeted. “I’m sick of dealing with it.”
Little did he know that the glitter bomb idea came first from my six-year-old daughter, Christmas 2014. But the motivations came from a completely different place. After spending several hours chopping up tinsel and tipping the contents into homemade little paper packages, our 6 y/o lovingly transcribed names of each of her family onto the packages and presented them proudly as Christmas gifts.
“When you open it, you see a beautiful glittery rainbow come out,” she announced.
I suspect I’ll still be finding tinsel come next Christmas.
