# Four year old boys should not be allowed access to glitter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252 "2013-01-24T20:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/1 "2013-01-24T20:19:36Z")
It’s been a bit cold here recently, so we’ve been looking for ways to keep the PiperCub amused indoors. Last night, Mrs Piper came home with lots of painting supplies: roll of paper, brushes, different coloured paints, and oh, a jar of glitter, to add a bit of contrast and sparkle to the Cub’s masterpieces. Five minutes into it, we discovered why his pre-K teacher keeps such a firm hand on the glitter. The Cub opened the container, saw what was in it, said “Cool” and dumped it on his painting. All of it. Due to the combination of air and personal movements within the Piper household, plus the electrostatic principles governing tiny bits of glitter, the Piper house is henceforth, “The Glitter Palace.” Floors, walls, towels, clothing, PiperCat, PiperPup, everything has just that little touch of glitter that enlivens a grey Saskatchewan winter day. Hence, my new location. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/2 "2013-01-24T20:26:10Z")
What about Pipercub himself? That stuff stays on the skin a long time! ---
**Author:** ![Steener122](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Steener122](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steener122)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/3 "2013-01-24T20:30:32Z")
Haha. Glitter is a parents worst nightmare! It gets everywhere but where you want it to be, and then it always seems to fall off of whatever you try to put it on. I don’t have kids yet, but I may keep them in the dark about glitter until I think i won’t have a glitter palace like you when I do have them. This reminds me of back when the huge anthrax scare was going on. I used to fill my Xmas cards with glitter every year and I did it that year too. My dad who worked for the USPS (until he retired) flipped on my and told me about how someone else doing that had shut the whole Post Office down for hours one day. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/4 "2013-01-24T20:32:19Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Floors, walls, towels, clothing, PiperCat, PiperPup, everything has just that little touch of glitter that enlivens a grey Saskatchewan winter day. You say that like it’s a BAD thing! I mean, besides just appreciating your current inherent fabulosity, consider all the other substances that a four year old PiperCub could have spread over every surface of the house… If glitter is all the seedling covers us with, I think we’ll take that as a win. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/5 "2013-01-24T20:33:03Z")
My best glitter story is pretty short: when I was a kid, our pet dog ate a tube of glitter. You’ve never seen such sparkly poo. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/6 "2013-01-24T20:37:26Z")
Modern glitter is a lot finer and more ‘man-eating’ than it was when I was a lad - about half the Christmas cards I received at work last year were glittery ones with that fine, pearlescent, pervasive glitter. I don’t think there was a single day in December when I didn’t end up with it on my face somewhere. In the end, I got so tired of people pointing it out, I had a stock response ready: “Yeah, it’s just something I’m trying out”. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/7 "2013-01-24T20:42:22Z")
When our daughter was young, I wanted to get her some finger paints, and some modeling clay. My husband, who usually left such decisions up to me, vetoed this plan. And you probably need to take pics of the Glitter Palace while it still sparkles. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/8 "2013-01-24T20:53:47Z")
I was at a teen cheer national competition last weekend. Literally, from the hotel elevators out the door across the park and to the convention center there was a glitter-brick road and that’s just what fell off their faces. > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > My best glitter story is pretty short: when I was a kid, our pet dog ate a tube of glitter. You’ve never seen such sparkly poo. Is that what they mean by shinola? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/9 "2013-01-24T20:55:27Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Is that what they mean by shinola? 😃 I dunno, but I know I got the weirdest case of deja vu when I saw the trailer for Twilight. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/10 "2013-01-24T20:59:27Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > And you probably need to take pics of the Glitter Palace while it still sparkles. Glitter is the herpes of craft supply. It will never be all gone. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/11 "2013-01-24T21:16:12Z")
At a long-ago local Dopefest, we met at a restaurant where one of **Zyada** ’s belly-dancing acquaintances was performing. The dancer in question had incorporated a small amount of glitter in her makeup, and gave **Zyada** a quick hug in passing. By the time we left the restaurant, our whole party was sparkling like a Twilight convention in Death Valley. The shit _breeds_. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/12 "2013-01-24T21:16:42Z")
Be thankful you have a boy. My daughter is 9 and now it has moved from glitter crafts to glittery lip gloss, etc. It gets everywhere! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/13 "2013-01-24T21:32:46Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > At a long-ago local Dopefest, we met at a restaurant where one of **Zyada** ’s belly-dancing acquaintances was performing. The dancer in question had incorporated a small amount of glitter in her makeup, and gave **Zyada** a quick hug in passing. By the time we left the restaurant, our whole party was sparkling like a Twilight convention in Death Valley. > > The shit _breeds_. Similar experience w/ my ex, who does burlesque shows. Having a burlesque dancing girlfriend means life is always going to be just a little bit more… sparkly. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/14 "2013-01-24T21:41:15Z")
All I can suggest is lots of lint rollers or duct tape. Trying to vacuum or sweep that stuff is pointless, but collecting it with sticky is permanent. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/15 "2013-01-24T21:52:55Z")
Ahahaha. I’ve stopped even mentioning the sparkliness of a friend, who has a young, artsy-craftsy daughter. It’s pretty much a permanent condition, as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/16 "2013-01-24T21:54:10Z")
Ooohhhhh… Sparkly!!! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/17 "2013-01-24T22:03:08Z")
Twelve year old girls should not be allowed access to Glitter either. Or is that the other way around? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/18 "2013-01-24T22:03:11Z")
Look on the bright side, you can come home plastered in stripper-glitter and no one will be the wiser. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/19 "2013-01-24T22:09:49Z")
A tiny sprinking of this glitter on someone else’s computer mouse is unlikely to be noticed until after it has spread all over their body. Just putting that thought out there… ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252/20 "2013-01-24T22:12:15Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Modern glitter is a lot finer and more ‘man-eating’ than it was when I was a lad - about half the Christmas cards I received at work last year were glittery ones with that fine, pearlescent, pervasive glitter. > > I don’t think there was a single day in December when I didn’t end up with it on my face somewhere. In the end, I got so tired of people pointing it out, I had a stock response ready: > > “Yeah, it’s just something I’m trying out”. Yes! Sending a be-glittered Christmas card has one of the highest duration of annoyance to resources spent ratios of any possible practical joke. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-year-old-boys-should-not-be-allowed-access-to-glitter/648252.md?page=2)