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Hey, What's Under That Bottle Cap? Six Words + Honest Tea


SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir project has seen a lot of incredible iterations: six-word classroom projects, six-word prayers, appearances in hacking conferences and museums of art, partnerships with places such as The National Constitution Center and Bono’s One.org.

And now Six-Word Memoirs will be a mystery in a bottle. Or rather, a “prize” under an Honest Tea bottle cap. Call it our adult, writerly version of the unknown treasure at the bottom of the box of Cracker Jacks. I’ve been digging for prizes, decoding secret messages, peeling back labels, and popping open bottle caps for as long as I can remember. So, when our first book of Six-Word Memoirs was about to come out, I sent Honest Tea co-founder Seth Goldman a message—I just guessed his email and told him the honest truth: I love your tea—it’s tasty. I love your company—it has a socially conscious mission. Just as one of SMITH Mag’s core beliefs is to make better media, not simply more media, I wrote, you’re making a better drink, not just another drink. And I think SMITH’s Six-Word Memoirs are a perfect match for Honest Tea’s bottle caps. Seth replied: I love it, let’s do it.

This week, 100+ of the most thoughtful, inspiring, insightful, and funny Six-Word Memoirs can be found under around a million bottle caps across the country. Maybe it’s just me, but the little things in life—like reading short, short life stories in bottles of Black Forest Berry or Pomegranate Red Tea with Goji—give me a sweet little kick of inspiration. But just a tad sweet—that’s the Honest Tea and six-word way. Want your Six-Word Memoir inside a bottle cap? Shares yours on the Six-Word Memoir project, and now you’ll be considered for a bottle cap as well as a book (and in case your dream differs from ours, we’ll always check with you first).

Comments

  • Susan Dyrud MacDonald
    June 8, 2010

    Yay! That is real neat! I hope I get under a cap! 🙂

  • Sfie Bee
    July 11, 2010

    I might but I might not.

  • goji bio
    August 7, 2010

    Good Job for your article 😉

  • FThomasCain
    August 17, 2010

    Life is short
    then you die!

  • FTC
    August 17, 2010

    All man’s accomplishments
    means absolutely nothing!

  • Sheila L.
    August 17, 2010

    Life is temporary
    Live every day

  • Frederick T. Cianci
    August 17, 2010

    Live your life
    before it’s over

  • Loon
    August 18, 2010

    Better tea capped than tea bagged.

  • Loon
    August 18, 2010

    Drink Me! Then Un Drink Me…

  • Loon
    August 18, 2010

    Drink me, then set me free.

  • AMANDA DIAL
    August 19, 2010

    ALWAYS UP FOR A “HONEST” TRY

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Black cat ate my four-leaf clover.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Thumbs feverishly text formerly unsaid crap.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    My mortgage fell, can’t get up.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    My grandchildren feed me Play-Doh burgers.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Old teeth turn amber, like sunset.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Love is an intimate stranger’s kiss.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Dalai Lama caught eating Double Whopper.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Vodka plus Honest Tea: honest glee.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Hope I don’t win the lottery.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Summertime is littluns slurping drippy popsicles.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Ageless rope swings laugh at mortality.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Please and Thank You are symbiotic.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Fingernail clippings make shrapnel look tame.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    We should’ve shared more happy meals.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Hemingway’s shoes took Sixers’ first step.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Honest Tea makes round world go.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    You’re being surrounded by coffee drinkers.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Lost again. Smooched the Old Maid.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Mommy and Daddy wrestled like that.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Constipated astronaut loves his Prune Tang.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Divorce diet: Lost a whole person

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Squirt water out before applying mustard.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Eighty-seven toddlers pee simultaneously: heated pool

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Cell phones camouflage selves when sought.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Baby-Boomer,Free-Love Loser, Mid-Life Boozer, St. Peter Schmoozer

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Life slowly goes far too quickly.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    I’m a vegan, unless home alone.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    You don’t look thirty. Thirty-eight maybe.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Mom secretly chews tobacco in bed.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Gimme, gimme, I’m a selfIsh knucklehead.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Mom treated head lice with respect.

  • Loon
    August 20, 2010

    Even Mom stole my lunch money.

  • Loon
    August 21, 2010

    Oddly, most women prefer men soft.

  • Loon
    August 21, 2010

    My grandson’s hands are bungee hooks.

  • Loon
    August 22, 2010

    Does anybody read these six-worders? — need some feedback

  • Loon
    August 22, 2010

    am i on the right track here? is anybody out there? wish i had a rooster….

  • Loon
    August 24, 2010

    With Honest Tea, no tea bagging.

  • Loon
    August 25, 2010

    Will Honest Tea please contact Loon?

  • Loon
    August 29, 2010

    please contact Loon via email !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!anybody out there??????????????????????????? lemme outta dis box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you want kisses, hugs?????????????????????????????—–here: oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxx—-i have a few questions…….. ………………………………….

  • Loon
    September 5, 2010

    Tea for two: Buy yer own)

  • Loon
    September 5, 2010

    Brits have tea-time; Yanks, Honest Tea.

  • Loon
    September 5, 2010

    Honest teetotalers drink only Honest Tea.

  • Dick Sargent
    August 13, 2011

    I came, I saw, I drank.

  • Dick Sargent
    August 13, 2011

    I came, I saw, I drank……

  • Tim Edib
    December 19, 2011

    Keep mind full and bowels empty

  • andrew mack
    December 19, 2012

    Life’s a beach so just relax

  • andrew mack
    December 19, 2012

    Help! I’m stuck
    Let me out

  • wordie
    March 29, 2013

    I live life to the fullest.

  • gregory guy sherman
    June 28, 2013

    an insult from a fool , is a complement to the wise.

  • Cindi Scott
    August 18, 2014

    Really be a fabulously extravagant giver!

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