Fireworks – Over $1,000*
Food – $50
Learning how to make a sparkler bomb – Free
New Year’s Eve with old and new friends – Priceless
I didn’t even know what a sparkler bomb was, but you get a lot of bang for your buck with this trick.
- Take about twelve sparklers and make the tops level.
- Pull one in the middle out about an 1.5 inches.
- Starting an inch below the burning part, wrap electrical tape tightly up to about a centimeter below the tips. Wrap back down and up again to the top for a total of three times around.
- Light it and run!
Even better – I made five of these and propped them up into a lit candle so they’d all go at once. It was fabulous.
Happy New Year!
(see the rest of the photos here)
* I could never have brought myself to spend that kind of money in order to literally burn it, but we were happy to play host to friends who could. A good time was had by all. 
