Your Day Was a Dumpster Fire? Try Anti-Affirmations for your Life

It’s been a decade since the world first met the Smiling Dumpster Fire, a brilliant, simple, and relatable image like the yellow smiley face of 40 years earlier.  The Smiling Dumpster Fire was created by pop culture mover and shaker Truck Torrence, also known as 100% Soft, and he’s back this month with two new ways you can remind yourself that you are not alone.  Now you can get your very own Smiling Dumpster Fire in the form of a sturdy 3×2-inch box.  But it’s not just a box, it’s Anti-Affirmations for Your Dumpster Fire Life, available here at Amazon, a green dumpster that opens to a pop-up paperboard flame, and inside it contains 52 sturdy, shiny playing card-type cards in a nifty drawer, each with the week’s affirmation, er, anti-affirmation.  Put it in a place where normal people would put their self-help statements.  Where other decks might remind you to “Think Positive!” here you might be reminded “Everything is on fire, but at least it’s warm and cozy,” or “If at first you don’t succeed, lower the bar.”

But wait!  There’s also a journal with stickers, too!

First, check out these images of the Anti-Affirmations for Your Dumpster Fire Life:

Sold separately, My Day Was a Dumpster Fire: A Journal for Venting When Everything Feels Like It’s Going Up in Flames, is available here at Amazon.  It’s a brightly colored, hardcover, lined journal for you or a friend to put down all your thoughts and feelings.  Peppered with humorous commentary and drawings of characters from the world of the Smiling Dumpster Fire, it’s a great companion to the cards.  Plus you can use the two sheets of stickers to liven up your stories.

When life feels like everything is going up in flames, remember that the Dumpster Fire smiles through it all anyway!  Get any big feelings out of your system and onto the page with this adorable journal.  Perfectly suited for school, work, or home, this journal features smooth, lined pages, and two sticker sheets with artwork of the iconic Dumpster Fire.  Use this journal to record your most nihilistic inner monologues, list your grievances, or chronicle the burning hellscape of contemporary life—then get back to rising to the occasion.

If you’re really motivated, put them together with the Official Dumpster Fire Coloring Book, reviewed here at borg this summer.  These would make great office gifts, stocking stuffers, or conversation pieces for your desk or home.  They are all available now from Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Press.

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