HOUSEHOLD ODDS & ENDS

This isn't the Old West but you can still look stylish in these soft, thin, stretchy very comfortable, washable black face masks. One size fits most. For best results, hand wash and air dry.

One of our all-time favorite items, back in neon colors. These surprisingly sturdy fly-swatters have plastic grip-handles, mesh heads and extendability. Measure 10-1/4” long when compressed, but pull the 4-draw handle and they extend to a fly-smacking 28”. Yours will be bright yellow, lime green, fuchsia or orange, but they’re all attractive, and the flies won’t care.

So why can't you ever find one? Put a stop to that with this clear plastic storage box with (100) steel safety pins: (50) at 1-1/8"; (25) at 1-1/4"; and (25) at 1-1/2". Your grandmother would be proud of you.

We’re fascinated by this thing. It’s a collapsible Red-Riding-Hoodish dispan/basket for your sink and beyond, with solid gray plastic rim, base and folding picnic-basket style handles, plus silicone sides in fashionable chartreuse. Measures 15" x 11" x 5-5/8" when open but collapses down to just 1-1/2” high for storage. Could also be a very nostalgic shopping basket, dandy for collecting garden vegetables. Hose-off-able and pretty much niftiness itself. Holds water like a champ and is great for camping.

Honest, it is, especially when you exercise with this thick-walled (assorted colors) Gym Ball. You know, the kind you sit on, or bend over and hope nobody is watching. Inflates with the included foot pump. Standard ball size of Approx 25” dia. If you don’t exercise, you could invent new games to play with it, like really dangerous dodge-ball. Brand new with exercise suggestions inside.

In flexible copper, 6-5/8" x 7/16" x 1/16" with 3/16" dia magnets on the ends, this bracelet is flexible enough to fit all wrists. Might be good for you, might just look good. Front of the package says the combo has been believed to relieve arthritis and rheumatism since Roman times but the back says it’s definitely not a medical device. F. Scott Fitzgerald said “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time.” He probably would have bought some of these bracelets. We'll pick from the twisted one or the smooth one.

Or are you just an inaccurate swatter? Either way, this humongous fly swatter is what you need. The swatter end is 7-1/2” long by 6-1/2” wide and is on a telescopic handle that extends to 39” long, which means the buggers can’t escape to the tall ceilings anymore. Contracts to 16” long for storage and has a rubber grip. In neon green so you won’t misplace it.

You can do both with this non-functioning, fake electrical outlet that’s actually a small safe. Looks like an ordinary off-white outlet, but has a 7" x 2" x 2-1/4" cavity in back. Swap out a real outlet, or use the teensy drywall saw that’s included and make a new bogus one anywhere you like. This one even takes plugs for further verisimilitude. We suggest putting a burnt-out bulb in the lamp you plug into this outlet to fool the smarter burglars. Always work at least one step ahead.

Life, and needle-threading, is hard enough, so this little tailor's friend has a 3/32" loop with a white LED below it so you can see what you’re doing. Includes a pair of button-cell batteries and the threader has a cover plus a little hook so you can string it on something and find it in your sewing box.

These official Circus Circus® Hotel/Casino painters' hats are in neon pink and white with the logo on the front and the Circus Circus seal on top, complete with the clown above the elephant and lion rampant. Guaranteed to look stunning with any outfit, casual or formal. (The more formal the outfit, the more stunned they'll be!) Adjustable headband to fit all noggins.

Actually no, but you know what adhesive tape is, don’t you? You’ll get (2) rolls of it here, waterproof white cloth medical tape, 2” wide x .011” thick on 10-yard rolls. Made in the USA, to bandage American owies.

Don't look back in anger, give everybody a mirror and let them look for themselves. You get a pack of (10) 2 1/2" x 1-7/8" hand mirrors in really thin little white plastic snap-shut cases. Front says "Check your Smile--Colgate" but at these prices, so what?

Don't look back in anger, give everybody a mirror and let them look for themselves. You get a pack of (10) 2 1/2" x 1-7/8" hand mirrors in really thin little white plastic snap-shut cases. Front says "Check your Smile--Colgate" but at these prices, so what?

Faux leopard-skin, among others. And from faux animals in a wide variety of non-animal colors, like green and fuchsia. Perfect for the senorita flirting at a post-modern bullfight, these accordion-style folding fans have plastic frames that hold accordioned cloth with a top edge of black lace because they’re for flirting, remember? Measure approx 9” long and open to 13”. We’ll pick the colors because we have really good taste.

Keep them safe. For storing hard and soft lenses, this Color-Mate® case was made for one of your larger national drugstore chains, but we've got it now. In assorted colors, from which we'll pick, it's approx 2-3/8" long and marked L and R.

We bought these because pandas are such messy eaters. Sorry. We bought these because you love the Kung Fu Panda aesthetic and your dinner service would look marvelous laid out on these placemats, which measure 17" x 11". You'll get (10) mats, at least (2) different kinds, from a selection of (4) Kung Fu Panda illustrations and (1) rogue The Penguins of Madagascar illustration because who could eat with pandas every night?

For when you just can't drag yours around anymore? No, for out-of-sight cigarette butt and ash disposal. This mini-bucket, sans handle, is a 3-1/4" dia x 3-7/8" tall black-composition ashtray that can sit on a desk or table, or fit neatly into a car's cup holder. Its removable lid has (3) slots to hold lit cigarettes and a small, cigarette-diameter hole so the butts slide out of sight and go out for lack of oxygen. Cuts down ambient dead-butt odors, too.

Drinkgrabs. Beerbandits. Whatever you’re imbibing, they’ve stolen your old fashioned for the last time. These dry-erase acrylic coasters let you identify your cocktail in a room full of negroninappers. Measure approx 4” square x 3/16” thick. You pick the Voice Bubble or Name Tag version, and we’ll pick a pair for you in a fetching color combo. Our each is (2) coasters. They’ll come with a little dry-erase marker that will probably be dried out, but if you shop here you’ve already got markers.