Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 03, 2024

Cards with glitter in them should be treated as a terrorist act.

Glitter is eye catching. I usually catch some in my eye.

I cuss every card with glitter that comes in the house! That accursed stuff is nothing more than a visible virus spreading everywhere, infesting everything including food. It’s like MRSA, when you think you’re rid of it you can still find traces of it for months to come. I hear strippers use it. Trash using trash…

BEWARE: GLITTER!

Yes. Me is fully agrees with this. Why them pesky glittery little things should be banned even.

The gift that keeps on giving ;-)

Ugly sweaters way better than pesky glitters.

Sending glitterful greeting cards seems like it could be a passive-aggressive action.

The only cards we received we for the former owner, who moved four years ago. I write “Return to sender, not at this address.” and stick it back in the mail box. One church hasn’t taken the hint, four years and they still send their payments for piano tuning here.

I have never seen one.

Will have to look into it.

Totally agree.

My wife worked as a custodian at a nearby grade school. One day she noticed a small amount of glitter in one of the class rooms. Informed the teacher that glitter was not easily cleaned up and to please not use it or she – the teacher would have to clean it up. A couple weeks later, wife found glitter all over the room. Din’t clean the room but left the vacuum cleaner for the teacher for the next morning, When the teacher brought the vacuum to the custodian’s room, she mentioned to my wife that she got the hint and no more glitter for art projects.

Every Plugger grandma owns glitter so her granddaughters can put glitter on the cards they are going to mail to you.

I’ve heard glitter referred to as Devil’s dust.

Yeah… they give black clothes that extra ‘sparkle’ and flare.

The devil’s confetti

Yah, good idea.

Glitter is *SHARP*….I’ve gotten several small cuts over the years trying to clean that crap up‼️

…and the same goes for sprinkles on food

It really is foolish sending well-wishes in what is basically a glitter bomb. Sure, it looks pretty in the store and no glitter falls off. However, after being manhandled and womanhandled by the U.S. Postal Service, up to HALF the glitter falls off in transit.

When the card is opened, that glitter immediately goes into the carpet where pets and even children may ingest it. It is notoriously difficult to remove.

THINK before mailing such a card. They are beautiful if HAND-DELIVERED.

My mom hates those cards because “they’re not recyclable.”

I went to Catholic grade school and our parish was about 90% Irish families. The big girls in 8th grade would put green glitter in their hair for St Patrick’s Day.

I MUST be a plugger…..

I finally told my Sister to stop using those because it made too much of a mess.