Our each is a set of (14) ultra-fine point permanent markers from BIC® with acid-free ink. Suitable for wet or oily surfaces, the colors include blue skies, deep sea blue, fandango pink, forest green, hot aqua, key lime, pink flamingo, playful purple, Polynesian purple, rambunctious red, sunset orange, tuxedo black, woodsy brown and yellow blaze. (You’d think they were nail polishes, wouldn’t you?) Include color-coded pocket clips and rubber grips.

This bipolar, 2-phase stepper motor from Shinano Kenshi Corp (SKC) draws 500mA at 9VDC with a 0.9 deg./step. Coils are brown/orange and red/yellow. Measures 1-7/16" dia x 1/2" with a 4" long, 3/8" threaded shaft, and mounting wings with 1/8" holes.

Start your kiddles off on puzzles with these 4” square, 6-piece wooden jigsaw puzzles. They come with (3) mini-markers, so the wee ones can color them in. In assorted designs, including a bee and a ladybug, our each is (2) different puzzles.

Coated white, these ceramic magnets look kind of like little donuts, each 7/8" dia x 1/2" thick with an 11/32” ID and a pull of approx 1 lb. Extremely handy for the fridge, steel file cabinet or wherever you hang photos, notes to self, to-do lists and stuff you tear out of magazines and newspapers.

This black polyester laptop case has padded front, back and sides, and measures 15" x 12" x 5" with handles and an adjustable, removable shoulder strap. Has (3) internal sections, a flap pocket on the outside with a zippered internal pocket, two open pockets and (3) pen sleeves. Best of all, it has a 1-1/2” wide strap across the back made to slip over the handle of a wheelie bag so you’ll have one less thing to carry while you’re trying to find your photo ID and take your belt off.

From the Chinese army. Gets noggin-numbing chilly in the northeast, and these very dark green winter hats have fur-lined ear- and neck-flaps, plus thick padding all around, and tie under the chin. Most are medium sizes, but have a certain amount of give. Our sample was cozy and snug on a copywriter’s 7-3/8 cranium.

No actual socks were harmed in the production of this 24-piece surfing sock-monkey 3D jigsaw puzzle. And it’s lenticular, which means if you tilt it the monkey looks like he’s surfing. Final monkey will measure 9” tall x a foot wide. (No pun is ever left untyped here.) The box front is, as a bonus, a lenticular pic of the same monkey hanging two, because sock monkeys don’t have toes.

Our bulb-type manual siphon pump comes with 12” and 45” lengths of clear vinyl 3/16” tubing that attach to a 3-1/2” long x 1-7/8” dia bulb. Made for petroleum products. At $4.95, it pays for itself with the first gallon or so you suck out of your neighbor’s Toyota. (Just kidding!) Use it to empty oil on something besides the garage floor or your head, fill the mower straight from the mini-van, or transfer gas from one vehicle to another. (Check to make sure you own both vehicles first.)

These surplus rubberized medical bags have been used by someone’s army, but we know not who's. (Adds to the mystery, we think, but if you know whose army it is, drop us a line.) They measure 11-1/2" x 9-1/4" x 4" closed, with a 7” flap and an adjustable canvas shoulder strap. Fronts have an approx 8” x 11” reinforced drop-down shelf on a flap with dual latches, and there are full-width pockets on either side of the center section with (5) 2-1/4” square pockets. There’s also a pair of small rings on the back, and a red cross stitched on the flap.

The Color N’ Fly kit includes (5) foam gliders that the kid in your life uses his or her imagination to design and fit together. With the (6) included markers, your young artist will color in the lines (or ignore them) on the fuselages and wings, and then add (or don’t) any of a huge batch of stickers to create an airline, air force or a handful of the most-different looking gliders the neighborhood has ever seen. Because they’re foam, they’re safe pretty much anywhere. Gliders have plastic nose-cones for durability, and will be 7-7/8" long with 5-3/4" wingspans. For ages 5+.

Get off the grid and forget the batteries with this nice little dynamo flashlight with wrist strap. Measures a scant 3” x 1-7/8” x 1-1/4” with a folding crank. Has (3) white LEDs with single, triple and flashing modes. One minute of cranking translates to one hour of single-LED light or a half-hour of triple LED brightness. Almost makes buying batteries seem silly.

A beautiful glass achromat lens. 34mm diameter and 66mm focal length. If you're In need of a lens for an art project or DIY magnifier, this is the lens for you. These are old military surplus so we have a limited quantity. Get yours today!

You may have actually Seen it on the Tee-Vee, or in your neighbor’s house, but if you don’t have a Spicy Shelf® stackable cabinet organizer of your own, where ya been, friend? It doesn’t dice or slice, but it holds your spices, prescriptions, toiletries, perfumes, collectibles and craft supplies in an easy-to-see, U-shaped white plastic configuration that is both contractible and expandable, depending on your space. Holds up to (64) standard-size containers and measures 11” tall x approx 7-1/2” wide x 11” deep. All for less than twenty bucks. This might be the best investment you make this year. Why so cheap? The instructions are written in Czech, but this thing is easier to assemble than Swedish furniture. 

From Zimpli kids we bring you SnoBall battle pack. A packet of Sodium Polyacrylate that turns Science into an all out snowball fight. Just add water to create your own snow. Packet contains 2.82oz to create up to 60 snowballs. The rest is up to you and your kids friends. Winter not included. 

We know, we know--we shouldn’t be so judgmental, but this cat bed is fleece-lined and round, 13” dia x 6-1/2” tall, in a navy blue tuna-can design with a silver lid that’s permanently half opened, for better cat coziness. The dopey part is that the front has a fish on it and the words “Fresh Tuna.” Luckily, most cats can’t read, or prefer not to. If you don’t have a cat, you could store cans of tuna in it.

…the bigger your grill cover has to be. This silver gray tarp measures 69” x 36” x 24” and if your grill is bigger than that, people are going to start to talk. In a plasticized material .015” thick, and with a drawstring.

Our most colorful measuring set, and the most nestingest. The (6) pieces snap together and stay together until you push up from below on the handles. The scoops include: 1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1/3 cup. 1/4 cup, 1 tbsp, and 1/2 tbsp--in aqua, purple, pink, yellow, green and orange in the same order. And they’re BPA-free.

Our each is a dozen classic fine-point Sharpie® markers in brown, purple, magenta, red, orange, yellow, light and dark green, aqua, light and dark blue, and black. Measure 5-3/8” long with pocket-clip caps. Compare our prices to Wagreen’s or VCS.

If there were a Lego Jonah, this would have been the whale that swallowed him. If his mouth opened, which it doesn’t. From Papo, this highly detailed, hand-painted whale measures 11” long from blowhole to flukes in anatomically correct, hard-molded rubber. And it weighs in at more than a pound. Call it 67:1 scale, if the whale is a big male, which we can tell it is from the hump instead of a dorsal fin. You could look it up.

Velcro®, Velcro®, Velcro®. We get so tired of all the time having to say “hook-and-loop fastener” that we get super-excited whenever we have actual self adhesive Velcro® brand Velcro® in stock. Which is what this is. Each piece is 5/8" wide x 13-1/2" long, in black, and includes both sides. Our package of (5) nets you (5) sets. Velcro®!, Velcro®!, Velcro®!

Because nothing says high fashion like flashspun high-density polyethylene fibers. And we’ve got a whole dang wardrobe of the stuff in white, because it never goes out of style. All made by DuPont. You pick: the medium shirt, 32” long with a collar and front buttons; the large lab coat, 40” long with a collar, left-side breast pocket, lower right-side pocket and snaps; the XL lab coat, 42” long with collar, left-side breast pocket, lower right-side pocket and snaps; the size small, medium, large and extra-large pants, all with very elastic waists; and large coveralls, 62” from neck to attached boots, with elastic cuffs and hood, and zippered from neck to crotch.

but violets are purple. And so are these 32-Ohm earbuds with a purple inline mic on a purple 40” lead with a standard 1/8” headphone purple plug. Include (3) assorted purple covers in a super handy dandy plastic case. Get a pair for grads of NYU (home of the Fighting Violets!) or for fans of Northwestern, LSU, TCU, KSU, WIU, ECU or Furman, plus any we forgot. Purple reigns.

A must-have for micro-warriors; Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction by John Austin (author of the best-selling Cubicle Warfare) is 241 pages of detailed instructions for building (42) implements of spitball warfare from ordinary household objects and office supplies. With the caveat that this is written for responsible individuals who take reasonable safety precautions (don't do anything your mother would scream at) we have to say that we love the binder-clip crossbow and the tongue-depressor catapult. Volume 2, which is 251 pages, has a secret-agent flair with new gadgets like the push-pin dart, toothpaste periscope and cereal briefcase. Volume 3, 267 pages, continues with a Medieval flavor and over a dozen catapults and ballistae, plus a buncha bows and crossbows. Oh, just buy the whole 3-volume Library of Destruction and get it over with.

Red is the new olive drab. Unless it’s navy blue, or orange, or camo. You pick from our rainbow of new repro bags designed like German Field Medic’s bags, in heavy-duty 22-oz cotton canvas with a pair of leather buckled straps and adjustable web shoulder strap in black, and a white cross on a red circle on the front flap. Bags measure 11-1/2” x 12-1/2” x 3-1/4”.

You can’t put science on a stick, but you can put it in a can. The Crazy Scientist™ lab kits for young researchers come from The Purple Cow® in 6-1/2” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2” tins. You pick from: The Water Gel Science Kit for ages 8+ with (14) experiments, lots of supplies and a 15-page manual; the Magnetic Wonder Kit for ages 8+ with a variety of materials and a 20-page manual; or the Young Survivor Kit, for preppers as young as 6, with (13) projects, equipment, and a 20-page manual.

Introducing the Aeromax 2000. This update of the classic parachute toy has mesh under the canopy instead of lines, so it's tangle-free. Big 20" chute floats the little 3-1/2" tall trooper gently to the ground. In assorted colors, which we'll pick because we have really good color sense.

Call it the best paint (and label and putty) scraper ever made. Great big nonslip padded grip, a blade holder with a thumbscrew (reverse the blade when not in use), and a 4-draw, push-button extension that takes it from 6-1/2" to 9-1/2" long. Comes with one blade installed and two extra in the handle. The scraper to have when you're scraping more than one window. From IIT®.

What do rotary tools have in common with fashionistas? Yes, it really is all about accessorizing. This set includes (20) shading bands, (10) fiberglass cut-off wheels, (21) assorted grinding stones, (3) polishing wheels, (45) woolen wheels and points, (36) silicone cut-off wheels, (60) sanding discs, (6) brushes, (5) diamond burrs, (8) high-speed steel burrs and drills, (3) mandrels and some polishing paste, all have a 1/8" shaft and come in a dandy wooden case. Case measures approximately 12-3/8" x 5-3/8" x 1-3/4".  Check out our best selling rotary tool here. Click!

This 12VDC gear motor is a new reversible double-shafted automotive seat motor that was never installed in the auto. Draws 1.3A no load, stalls at approx 9.5A and spins 2,500 rpms. Output is through 1/8" sq x 5/8" deep ports at the front and back of the housing (we'll include (2) short, square shafts to get you started). Housing measures 4-5/8" long x 1-29/32" dia with (2) shrouded power terminals at one end and (2) 3/16" dia spurs at the other. Overall, it's 5" x 2-3/4" across.

Nah, we don’t know either. Ours has that number, but yours may not, and it’s removable anyway. It’s an olive drab canvas bag 30” x 29” in a vaguely torso/chubby clover shape, e.g. with approx 8” bump-outs at the the top and on two upper sides. Like a garment bag for a fancy dress uniform with a giant collar and big epaulets. (OK, we made that up, but still.) Has a double zipper over the top, canvas handle grips, and adjustable 40” straps so it can be worn like a backpack. (French vets are encouraged to call us and explain.)

From Zimpli kids we bring you SnoBall battle pack. A packet of Sodium Polyacrylate that turns Science into an all out snowball fight. Just add water to create your own snow. Packet contains 2.82oz to create up to 60 snowballs. The rest is up to you and your kids friends. Winter not included. 

What scratches your back but won't provide breakfast for you? It's our glow in the dark back scratcher of course. Has chicken like talon "hands" and extends to over 26” long, but shrinks to a pocket-sized 8-1/4”. Super duper handy to have around when your significant other says they just cut their finger nails.

We believe this is a replacement switch activated by closing the door of a microwave. It’s a N/O (normally open) microswitch from Dongnan Electronics, rated for 5A at 125V and 2A at 250V. Comes with a bent 1-3/4” lever and is prewired with 19” leads and a 2-pin 5.5mm Molex connector. UL.

Attention robotics boffins: Here's a nice, powerful 12-24VDC Mabuchi brush motor with a gearbox and pulley attached. At its nominal 24DC, it spins 45rpm, draws 280mA no load, and stalls a 750mA. 7.5 in-lbs of torque and is rated for continuous duty. Has a 3/4" long x 5/16" flattened shaft with a 4-5/8" dia x 5/16" wide (3/16" ID) single-sheave pulley attached, with a matching O-ring. The gearbox measures 2-3/4" x 3" x 9-1/16". The motor measures 1-1/16"dia x 1-5/8" long and comes with 7" leads and a 2-pin Molex connector.

Filament tape for closing boxes and envelopes that you want to stay closed. It has fiberglass strands embedded lengthwise in it which makes it very hard to tear by accident. You get 10 yds of the stuff, 3/4" wide, in a clear plastic desk type dispenser.

Tube tents are tubes in the sense that they're one piece, with floors, and can be used as shelters, ground cover or or blankets in emergencies or disasters. This one is bright orange nylon with an aluminized coating on the inside for insulation. Measures 82" x 36". Includes 23 feet of nylon rope for hanging between trees or posts and (4) 9" zinc-plated steel stakes.

Return with us now to those golden days of yesteryear, when models were made of wood. You pick the successful Spirit of St. Louis airplane, 5-1/2” long with a 7-3/4” wingspan, or the less-successful model Titanic, 7-1/4” long. You’ll need to supply your own glue, sandpaper, paint and tiny iceberg or Charles Lindbergh.

There are some things you just shouldn’t look at directly, like the mind of our copywriter, and this iZoom® flood light. The latter is a 10W, 700-lumen floodlight with a 3/4” dia COB LED behind an acrylic lens. The whole shebang is in a 7" x 4-1/2" x 1-3/8" weather-resistant housing with a 3-1/2” handle on top, and a pivoting kickstand. Color temp is 6000K (coolish) and it comes with (6) “AAA”s for power, which is about (3) hours’ worth.

Our sunglasses all have dark-tinted polycarbonate lenses rated for 95 percent UV-B and 60 percent UV-A protection. You pick the black top-only frames with black or white arms (temple), or the solid black frames with assorted neon color arms (temple) that we’ll choose for you, to save you having to think about it.

All you add is sunlight to use this 50-foot long solar balloon to prove that Bernoulli was right. Pascal, too. Demonstrate buoyancy, convection, thermodynamics and the power of the sun. Measures 29" dia and comes with 400 feet of string, and instructions.