This isn't a book, but it's definitely book-ish. Looks like a leather-bound volume from the Bodleian but it's just a little wooden box, approx 8-1/2" x 5" x 2" (7" x 3-7/8" x 1-5/8" inside) that's perfect for stashing the jewels, cash, or whatever you need to stash in plain sight on the shelves.

This little steel pot is painted to look like a bronze artifact from, say, Caesar Augustus's kitchen. Measures 5-3/8" dia at the top x 4-1/2" tall on a 3-1/8" dia base. Nice plant pot, or a container for spare change, marbles or writing instruments.

Add a little pizazz to your nitro pills! This 1-3/4" x 1/2" dia container for meds is anodized aluminum in mostly silver but also could be in blue, turquoise, purple, red, gold (our choice). It's gasketed so it's watertight. We recommend cleaning the inside with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol before using, since some have a bit of rust-colored residue in them. Flashy!

You can store a plethora and a half of things in this staggeringly cute set of a dozen screw-top clear plastic canisters, 1-1/4" dia x 3/4" deep, that fit perfectly inside this 6-3/8" x 4-3/8" x 1" deep clear plastic lidded box. How they got those circles in a rectangle is a Euclidean mystery.

Kind of like what Bert puts his beeswax in, but a tad tinier. Clear plastic tubs with black plastic screw caps, they measure 1-3/16" dia x 9/16" deep overall with 15/16" dia x 5/16" deep inner dimensions. Perfect for storing four nickels or holding those extra-special unguents.

The lids on these small steel tins have a slight inset to match a slight indentation on the bottoms, so you can stack them up. Nice for powders and other ground-up stuff, but just as happy with wrapped candy inside, as party favors. Also good for sparkles and craft materials or the small screws, nuts and bolts that accumulate. White enamel and they measure 2-5/8” tall x 1-7/8” square with matching press-on lids.

These nice, bare steel tins measure 6-5/8" x 4-3/4" x 1-7/8", and have a 4-3/4” x 3-1/4” clear acrylic window in their flip-top lids. They have a discreetly embossed “Mezze” on the front, which means “appetizer” in a bunch of languages, but you can keep whatever your heart desires in them because nobody can tell you what to do.

Cute as a big button, this little steel tin has a white enamel finish and measures 1-5/8” dia x 7/8” thick. Open it up and there’s a clear plastic lining with a 5/16” tall wall in the bottom. If Tiny Tim had had these, they’d have been Tiny Tim’s Tiny Tins. We like them for pills and repackaging emollients and unguents for travel.

No, not for your lunch. Paul in Purchasing called these “extremely very much extra-interesting.” These containers are from Ade, Inc. (an electronics packaging company) and are made to sandwich sensitive or delicate items between two sheets of flexible polyurethane film inside a clear plastic clamshell with a latch and (4) clasps to seal it. We think they’d be great for 3-D items, and to preserve your collectibles. Inside surface measures a 3” x 4” oval; outside case is a 3-1/2” x 4-1/2” x 1-1/2”+ rectangle.

Just like the big red plastic party cups everybody has but in a 2-oz size, for when you graduate from beer to cocktails, perhaps, but they also make great condiment holders, paint pots, bead buckets for craft classes and hats for lab rats. Also useful for the really, really expert version of beer pong. Come in bags of (20). Your package of (3) gets you (60) cups.