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How’s Your Horn Scratcher? Is it time to replace your combination back scratcher/extra-long shoehorn? We just replaced ours with one of these and our back couldn’t be happier, for both reasons. Measures 19-1/8" long (the tool, not our back),...

Build 300 or more electronic projects from a Reflection Detector to a Simple Salt Water Alarm with Snap Circuits SC300. The Elenco kit, a Dr. Toy Winner, has a grid base and a selection of conductors, resistors, switches, integrated circuits and more,...

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild presents a series of fun and educational (but mostly fun) finger puppet/fridge magnets. Each puppet in the “magnetic personalities” series has a little card with a quote and background on the historical...

Royally Helpful... We’re calling this pick-up claw from Grip® the king of all pick-up claws. Measures 24-1/2" long with a 3" metallic green metal head that houses the (4)-finger claw, a 2-lb ring magnet and a white LED light. Has 16" of black...

The Magnet Of Death One of our coolest recent magnet acquisitions. You’re welcome. This one is coated white and in the general shape of a tombstone with a flat bottom, straight sides and a rounded top. Measures just shy of 2” x 2” and...

Get Ready To Wine Down! Hey Wine-os! Wine not treat yourself to a new patio/kitchen/desktop accessory? This wooden plaque is perfect to hold your wine, desk supplies or paintbrushes. This one measures 9-3/4" long x 3-3/4" wide x 3/4" thick in natural...

Unmess Your Desk With this (3)-piece desk organizer set in faux wood, you’ll be able to clear some space both at your workstation and in your mind. And won’t that be a fine feeling, yes, ma’am. Set includes a 10" x 11-3/4" x 4" magazine...

This 22" long x 8" x 4" inflatable Ibero Cruceros cruise ship is white with blue and orange accents. There’s not much more to it than that, and you know why? Because there doesn’t need to be! Great for the pool or bathtub (it’s...

It's a HammerHead... No not the shark. Mini 6-3/8" Tolsen Tools Claw hammer. Gets in the spaces the bigger hammers don't like to go into to.  At only 8 ounces it's drop forged head has been heat treated and ground polished. Fiberglass handle is easy...

You Can’t Eat These Gyros... We love when science and play come together, and this precision gyroscope is our latest obsession in that department. Constructed mainly out of durable plastic with rubberized tips, this Cyclone Gyroscope® was...

Can You Dig It? Yes! These Mini Dig kits, in which you discover a hidden treasure buried in a plaster cast (which is called sandstone on the package), are great for parties, vacations, scouting groups and schools. Each kit includes a wooden digging tool...

It’s hip to be square. This white plastic jar/container is 4-3/4” tall x 4” on the sides with subtly rounded corners. Holds (32) oz, and has a matching, gasketed, screw-on lid. Since it’s square (and it’s hip to be so),...

You can’t keep me out of the cookie jar, but you can slow me down, just like with this 6" tall x 1-3/4" dia plastic container with a locking cap. In elegant dark blue. Holds (5) oz and looks like an old-school cylindrical Pog container. Has a...

Memories Of Shirley... We can’t help but think of Shirley Temple—the child actor, not the alcohol-free drink—when we look at this Gardner Bender® Spiral Wrap. Just like her curls. But this stuff’s made of plastic and meant to...

Good For STEAM Building... We have (2) smart, creative Ein-O Science Builder kits, which combine STEAM learning and fun, allowing kids to mix and match to create unique creatures. Both include a bag of connectors and a pamphlet with instructions for (6)...

Our first Saudi Arabian jars! These clear glass round jars measure 2-1/2” dia x 3-1/4” tall and come with black metal lids. Hold (6) oz each, and we’ll send you (6) jars and lids. Made by Saudi Arabian Glass, really. Use them in the...

Tea Candles, Hold The Fire When you don’t want actual flames dancing in your house, pull out these tea light candles, which run on (2) included CR2032 button cell batteries. Just remember to remove the plastic battery saver first. Set the mood...

A Connector In Every Port What’s better than a tawny port after dinner? How about a yellow port connector before lunch! Actually, these 12-22-gauge, push-in style connectors from Utilitech® work well at any time... well... any time you need to...

Look, no one wants your unsightly cable just dangling about in the living room. Avoid that embarrassment with this 8-foot ultra-thin HDMI cable designed for “discrete installation.” The GE UltraPro high-speed cable with ethernet promises...

Wooden silverware isn't an oxymoron, it's the disposable flatware that lets you avoid plastic when it's not possible to actually wash metal utensils. These disposable knives, forks and spoons are 100% birch, and all measure 6-1/4” long...

Here’s something you don’t see everywhere. We have very, very, very assorted (new) blank circuit boards ranging from 6" x 6" down to 1" x 1", and we’ll send you (10) of them with our greatest intentions of giving you at least (5)...

Is That A Stapler In Your Pocket, Or...? Yes and yes! You’ll be happy to see everyone just so you can show them your PaperPro single-finger (12)-sheet stapler. it's like magic and It’s light, plastic, and at just under 3" long, fits snugly in...

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...

Lil’ Flashlight, Lotta Light... Light your way with this pocketable 5" long, battery-powered, focusable, 350-lumen LED flashlight, which can be used as a flood or spotlight. Has (5) beam settings: max-power, mid-power, low-power, strobe, and SOS...

Pure surplus: 11” x 4” x 1/4” thick oblongs (which is to say, rectangles with rounded ends) of dense, black nitrile rubber. It’s like padding, matte on one surface and glossy on the other. Great for dampening vibration, or...

Sounds like a Shirelles song, Baby Blue Teardrops, but these are really your standard household current night-light bulb (also seen strung on tannenbaums across the land). Ten watts with the usual E12 candelabra base, with a translucent bluish tint.

Time Is Running Out... Like the days of our lives, the sand in this glass timer is running out. This hourglass is a double teardrop shape with blue sand, and takes approx an hour to empty (nothing was certain in the pre-digital age, my friend), and...

These Will Move You... Need a tough rigid caster with a 3" dia x 1-3/8" wide hard plastic wheel? We thought you might, which is why we ordered extra. Measures approx 4” from the mounting plate to the bottom of the wheel, and has a load capacity of...

Meter Your Amps... You won’t find authentic old-school analog DC Amp meters like these just anywhere, friends. Lucky for you we have a way of finding them. These have a white face that measures 2-1/8” x 1-3/4” and says D.C. AMPERE with...

Big Casters... Yeah, big casters at a nice price. We have (2) styles of brand new, steel swivel threaded stem casters with 5” dia x 1-1/4” gray rubber treads on black heavy-duty plastic wheels, each with a max load capacity of 300 lbs. You...

This item is straight from Central Casting, a bag of (4) black office-chair casters. Each caster has (2) spinning wheels and swivels 360 degrees, with a locking mechanism that’s especially handy if your office is on a yacht. Wheels are just under...

Our old buddy Rod was quite the magnet—mostly for trouble and Johnny Law—so we can’t help feeling nostalgic as we grip this 4” x 3/8” alnico rod magnet. Because of their temperature stability and relatively high magnetic...

Get More Out Of Your Jigsaw... Sometimes a regular jigsaw puzzle isn’t enough. That’s when you turn to these 2-in-1, double-sided Jigsaw Puzzles with word puzzle patterns on one side and blank Sudoku and number puzzles on the other. Solve...

Tape, Don’t Sew, Your Fabric From Fiskars®, this iron-on fusing tape is a must for everyone who likes to stay as far away from sewing needles as possible. The double-sided adhesive is a no-sew solution for mending and hemming. Simply pre-wash...

Sew You Need New Needles? Sewers love us. That’s people who sew—not the space beneath the streets. Maybe we should have said “tailors love us.” We have stuff like this Sewing Needles 30-pack from Fiskars®, one of your top...

Rip ’N Measure Every proper sewing kit needs a seam ripper and a tape measure. You’ll get both in this handy little twofer from Fiskars®. Seam ripper is ergonomically designed for comfortably removing lines of stitching, and has a clear...

Magically Morphing Glue This Elmer’s® school glue goes on purple and dries clear. It doesn’t make slime—just makes stuff stick together—and you’ll get (4) oz of it (118ml in Canadian schools) so you can go ahead and make...

Glide Across The Page Whether you’re writing your very first sonnet or your five-hundredth grocery list, you can appreciate a nice, flowing pen. Here’s a (3)-pack of Superglide™ ball pens from Cello®. Write one word with these...

It was fine for Harry Belafonte to promote working all night on a drink of rum, stacking bananas ’til the morning come, but how, when it’s so dark? These decorative, long-lasting banana LED string lights—a set of (10) in bunches of...

Edgar Allan Poe loved a little grape. Or barley. Malt. Pretty much anything that could be turned into booze, which makes this literary wine stopper so aproPoe. The surprisingly vivid, detailed bust of Poe atop the cork stopper is of substantial ceramic,...