A Brisbane teen just sold a framed old single-use plastic bag from Woolworths for $300 and BRB, I’m going to the trash.
Casey Apiata is a Year 12 student at Deception Bay High School. In 2018, when Coles and Woolies stopped using free single-use plastic bags, opting for the 15 cents thicker, reusable tote ones, he decided to frame one of them for the shits and giggles, secretly hoping it would one day increase in value. As Tiffany New York Pollard would say: “[he’s] so powerful, [his] mind, ugh, it amazes me.”
With his formal forthcoming, Apiata needed some cash to crop a buttoned-up fit. Looking at his once unprized but now one-of-a-kind possession, and recent obscure items he saw online, he decided to put it up on Facebook Marketplace. The ad is obviously gone now but you just know it shat all over that dumb post about an “extremely rare and iconic one of a kind” IKEA shelf from Melbourne.
“I got the idea from when a Maccas chicken nugget sold for almost $500,000 because it was shaped like a character from Among Us,” Apiata tells PEDESTRIAN.TV.
“So I just looked at my framed picture and thought, ‘yeah, let’s try sell this for fun.’”
Lo and behold, three years after first framing it, his “well-kept artefact” sold it for a whopping 300 dollarydoos. Not bad for something that he paid zero (0!!) cents for.
‘I have received a donation from an anonymous person which will cover the cost of my suit [for my formal] which means that I will use the $300 towards my formal committee to make my formal cheaper for my cohort.”
Wow, a recyclable king that keeps on giving back to his community? We love that for him (and his school pals). Capitalism really said yes sustainability sells but nostalgic trash and trinkets do, too.
Anyway, if you need me, I’ll be following after my local garbage truck on bin day and dumpster diving at whatever local trash joint it leads me to. Stinky papa needs a new pair of shoes y’know.
