Make your dashboard one with everything for under seven bucks. This Buddhist monk-on-a-spring wears an off-the-shoulder saffron robe and a blissful expression that will make your daily commute a little slice of Nirvana. Sits 4-5/8" tall with an adhesive base.

It’s either the world’s smallest shop vac or the only car vacuum on the planet that will suck up water. Handy, that. Our 7-1/2" x 9" portable wet-dry vacuum has an 9-foot cord with a 12V cigarette lighter/accessory plug, a 3-foot-plus flexible hose, large brush, and crevice cleaner. Great for cars, boats, RV's or camping. Bonus: it reverses and has a nozzle to blow up air mattresses and the like.

Made for truck and bus tires, but anyone tired of kneeling on gas station asphalt will love this 13" long x 5/8” dia air gauge. In nickel-plated brass, it has dual Schrader fittings, one straight on, the other on the reverse side at 45-degrees to ease use and save your back when the valve is at the top of the tire. Reads from 10psi to 160psi in 2psi increments.

These 3” long cricket-shaped clips are made to slide onto your car visor and open up to hold your glasses without scratching the plastic lenses they told you were scratch-proof but really aren’t. Inside has foam pads so they won’t even scratch your temples. We’ll pick a pair in black, red, blue or fuchsia. Could also hold a pencil if you don’t have sunglasses. Made for a large chain store and sold for $5.99 each, but we’ve got ’em for a fraction of that. Surplus!

Tag a bunch of bags in this age of check-everything-or-else travel. Our each is a 5-pack of 3-M" self-laminating clear-plastic luggage (or anything else) tags. Encase a business card or any piece of paper inside and press shut. The tags are 4-9/16" x 2-13/16" and come with 6" long clear-rubber loops for attaching to handles.

In the universe of rhinestone-encrusted trailer-hitch covers, ours is decidedly on the understated side, being a mere 4-3/4" x 4-1/2" in the shape of a dollar sign. Fits 1-1/4" and 2" hitches and includes (3) different mounting brackets. Don't own a trailer? Hang it around your neck and watch the maitre d' usher your party to a special table.

at the house of blue light. Little Richard Penniman said so. But good golly, now you can turn your car into the house of blue light with this pair of 3-1/2” long CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) tubes connected via a 28” lead to a control unit, and then to a cigarette plug. Has a 2A fuse with a power switch, and includes self-adhesive mounts for the tubes and control box.

Cookie Monster with a migraine. Also these excellent CCFL lights so the inside of your vehicle can throb with blue lights to the beat of your sound system. It's what Bach would have done if he'd had a car. These are all on fused power cords that slide into the cigarette-lighter plug on 4-foot cords, plus a small control unit on a separate 5-foot cord. All use self-adhesive mounts and  feature adjustable sound-sensitive modes or steady-on modes (for when Mom is in the car). You pick, the 4-5/8" long tube on a pivoting base; the 7-3/4" x 4-5/8" frame to surround your sound source; or the smaller 7-5/8" x 2-1/2" frame for a smaller radio.

That’s what a “travel tumbler” really is, you know. This one is double-walled white plastic to keep your beverage cold or hot (how it knows which is magic) measuring 5-1/2” tall and holding (8) oz. Has a pretty blue gasketed screw top with a drinking slot. Dishwasher safe. Made in Holland, whence we don’t get much stuff, so we’re excited.

The vent window is gone forever, which is why you can’t keep your entire windshield fog-free all the time. (Ask grampa.) So we recommend this low-power auxiliary windshield heater-defroster. Draws a scant 3A and measures 5-3/4" x 3-3/4" x 2" with a visor clip, a 4-foot cord and a little built-in fan. Don’t expect it to remove ice but it does the job in a pinch. Funnest part is proving to the policeman that it’s not an illegal radar detector.