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Calm Your Suppers...If one thing gets under our skin, it’s a sliding tablecloth, either from the wind, passed platters and bowls or rambunctious diners. If a second thing gets under our skin, it’s rambunctious diners. Meals are better now...

A Tape That Actually Tapes...These tape measures are 36” long, in classic yellow, but the coolest thing is, they have self-adhesive backs. Tapeable tapes! They have inches and centimeters with 1/8" and mm markings. You’ll get (2) tapes per...

A Roll For Your Drawers...There’s nothing worse than opening a drawer and hearing everything shift and slide all over the place. OK, sure, there are a few worse things, but man we hate that sound. This non-adhesive, soft, synthetic, grippy material...

The BBQ Wheel Goes Round’n’Round... The wheel in the sky keeps turning and so does this Barbecue Wheel for cooking. Some things are still delightfully analog—grilling out being one of them—so it’s appropriate that this...

Bamboo For Your Face... This 2" dia mushroom-shaped bamboo knob has a steel ball that rolls on the “stem” end. What’s it for? For one, it gives you a nice, calming massage, and for two, it’s supposed to give you "naturally glowing...

Protect Your Kid’s Eyes... Kids these days, they get a lot of screen time. Protect them from themselves with these kids blue-light blocking glasses from Harry D. Koenig & Company. Designed to help reduce the occurrence of digital eye strain and...

The Light That Hides... We’ve carried this amazing work light for years, but it’s mostly come in yellow and black. Now we have it in green hunter’s camo with a brown power button, flip-out easel and hook, and stripe around the sides...

See Yourself In Tape! The folks behind the Duck Tape brand like to make tape that doesn’t look like most other tape, and here’s a prime example. It’s called Duck Mirror® tape and you can picture it already. In reflective silver,...

Power Cord Progression... When we mentioned the words “power cord” to Jarvis, he launched into some pretty awesome air guitar. But we quickly clarified by displaying this simple 3-prong plug, which is approx 50" long (excluding plug and...

Be An Electric Liberace... Classic candelabra socket for LED and incandescent bulbs. Has two spade terminals in the bottom, and spring snap holders on the sides. 

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.

Totally Tighten those Specs! The most useful item in your junk drawer! Perfect Pack of 6-Piece Precision screwdrivers in a hard plastic case. About 3" long, they come in flat head sizes of 1.4, 2.0, 2.4, 3.0 and Philips sizes PH0 and PH1. From tolsen...

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...

Squirrel In A Stump That’s one of our favorite bluegrass tunes, but it’s also this very satisfying rubber-flexible plastic pop-up toy that seems to eat up hours of our time. Imagine how intriguing a kid will find it! The base is a light brown...

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),...

Stick ’Em Up After you stick up these vinyl stickers, you can pull ’em down and store ’em until you’re ready to stick ’em up again. You’re so smart—yes, it’s because they’re reusable and won’t...

A-P Glue...Give your adhering some purpose with this all-purpose, non-toxic, washable white glue from CreateBasics™. Great for kids, and for adult craft projects—for all the reasons mentioned in the previous sentence. You’ll get a 16-oz...

Keep Your Fire Dry Fire doesn’t like water, and neither do matches, which is why we love this bright orange 3-in-1 waterproof Match Container from the SE® Survival Series™. Looks like just a plastic tube with ridges on the cap and body...

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...

Want To Be A Food Writer? Kick off your food-writing avocation with these colorful, food-themed pens with the traditional push down levers to change the (6) ink colors. Each pen measures 6-1/2" tall with different-colored bodies and toppers, which...

Star Wars Wallet On The Move... They call this black rubber accessory a Star Wars™ Mobile Wallet™ not because it came from a galaxy far, far away (or even a galaxy close, close to here), but because it fits on the back of your mobile...

Say There, Sudoku’in’ Surpies... Surpie sudokuers, rejoice and sudokufy! These (110) double-sided Sudoku puzzle cards measures 4-3/4” x 3-1/2” each and have difficulty ratings of mild, hot and spicy. Just don’t eat chicken...

Gold And Silver Butterflies... These butterflies won’t fly, but they’ll keep your papers in order, and you’ll always know where to find them because they come in a 2-3/4" dia tin case with a see-through top and a magnetic base that you...

Duct Tape to the Stars... We use a lot of duct tape around here, and sometimes we get tired of looking at the same old silver stuff. Lately we’ve been using this Duck Tape brand astrology tape, dark blue with yellow constellation designs on it...

Fill Your Phillips Collection... It’s never a bad idea to have another Phillips screwdriver, especially when one this nice comes around. This heavy duty Elenco® #1 x 6” (says so on the clear and painted-blue handle) has a Phillips ST-81...

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...

The Original LED... It's 5mm with two leads. Just like we remember when we were youths. Long lead is positive. Some consider them indicators as they are bright but do not throw light. Great for experiments and making DIY projects.   

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...

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...

Orange Is The New “Other Color” At least for painters. Our (135)-foot spool of 1-1/2” wide orange painter's tape works just like the famous other-colored painter's tape. Also, it has been our experience that paint simply does not care...

The Carabiner-CarabinerNite Ize®, the company that makes this ingenious little fella, calls it the S-Biner. We’ve been thinking for the past 30 seconds, and we’ve decided that’s about as good a name as Carabiner-Carabiner, which we...

One Heck Of A Heli... A company called Supreme Party and Novelties™ gets credit for this supreme party novelty, an LED light-flashing helicopter toy with an included battery. Includes (1) whirly-style helicopter toy that lights up in different...

Go Ahead, Pin It On Me... It’s the little things with push pins, probably because they themselves are such little things. These pins by EleQit, for instance, have metal prongs in a pleasant rose-gold color (the pin part) and grippy bits in a nice...

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...

Small But Mighty-ish...Solid, durable and strong for its size, this 3/4" single, fixed-loop pulley has a brass wheel and a 1/4" dia loop for hanging. Measures 1-3/4" overall with a 25-lb max load. Don’t use it for lifting anything overhead, but if...

This Toy Slinks Down Steps...It's a magical 2-1/2" dia, radial, spiral-ish, plastic, rainbow-design, stair-walking toy that most definitely does not make the classic, zippy, jangly, metal slinkish sounds you may or may not have experienced in another toy...

Big Ol’ Pen... We just got off the phone with Herman Munster, and he thanked us profusely for finding his ball-point pen. It’s 8” long x a little more than 1” dia. Has a golden barrel, a silver pocket clip and push button, and 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...

Salad Slinger or Spooked Scratcher? These 12" long pair of skeletal hand tongs aren't just for tossing salads (though they do it with a creepy flair!). Their bony fingers reach far beyond the kitchen, becoming a multi-talented terror in every corner of...