Just like all the fashionable coroners wear, this clear plastic face shield is approx 10-3/4” tall x 6” deep, and wraps around your face and the front half of your head. The shield features thumbscrews to adjust the forehead strap and angle of the face guard for superior comfort. Not impact or heat resistant, so pay heed to the “antispray mask” on the tape at the top, and don’t use it like safety glasses or a bump cap.

Grip® brand water-resistant utility boxes are inspired by military ammo cans, but in a long-lasting polymer instead of steel, and in mini sizes. These are 8-1/2” long x 4-1/2” wide x 6-1/2” tall, hinged on a short side. They have a folding handle on top, a secure locking latch, and an O-ring gasket to make them water-resistant. Great for cell phones and other small electronics, wallets, cash, lunch, our Virgil Trucks rookie card—stuff like that.

OK, chicken plucking and how to build an igloo, but you could combine them if you needed to. How To is a book of wilderness skills with instructions on over (75) things you might need to know someday, including the two above, plus opening coconuts with a rock, sheep-shearing, crossing deserts (with the associated treating a snakebite), surviving bear attacks, starting fires in the rain, cleaning fish, tanning hides, and shoeing horses. Takes a nice, fun look at desperation in the woods. We've already used a bunch in the office.

Never mind--you don’t want to get too matchy in the crawl space. On the other hand, gray is for flannel trousers, so we suggest this 3/4” roll of neon duct tape (16-1/2 feet of it) for repairs or labels you want to be able to see easily. In a standard tape dispenser. We’ll pick a roll in neon pink, green, purple, yellow or orange to match your eyes.

Actually 1,042 days, and that’s if it’s on 24/7. This dimmable, wide-angle LED floodlight runs for 20% of the energy of a halogen and shines at 865 lumens. Draws just 15W, and the manufacturer cites energy cost at $1.80 a year. Warm white 3000K light. Stock up and you’ll never be stuck in the dark.

Takes a steady hand, a good eye and tweezers, along with wire cutters and needle-nose pliers, to construct these Metal Earth® steel models. Just punch out the tiny parts from laser-cut sheets and assemble them with tabs and slots—no glue, solder or screws required. You pick: the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket and gantry, in stainless steel approx 5-7/8" x 2" x 1-5/16"; or the Kinkaku-Ji three-story Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, in gold-tone steel, approx 3-1/2" x 2-3/8" x 2-1/2". Full instructions included. For ages 14+.

Who’s got the button? You do if you’re a playful sort and click on the buttons below. You pick: the 1-1/4” dia white button with our AS&S flying leader Jarvis in black (identifying you as a Surpie); or the 1-1/2" dia white button with a pair of classic drinking birds (the real thing is available you-know-where), which identifies you as classically silly, which we consider a high compliment.

That's (5) skidoos better than 23 skidoo, on account of this 22" light strip has (28) white LEDs on it. To ease installation, we've paired it with a power supply driver. Driver measures 5" x 3" x 1-1/2" and is rated at 28VDC. The black and white wires attach to wall voltage, and green is the ground. The other end has a bunch of wires, but the red and black attach to the LED board and the others are for various control functions. But you only need the red and black to run the light strip.

Behold the first attractively designed electric pencil sharpener since Edward C. Hoffman’s 1943 art deco Electro-Pointer. (You could look it up.) The Spira from X-ACTO® is a rotated rectangular column, 5-3/4” tall x 2-3/4” square, in lipstick red plastic. Plugs in via a wall adapter, and has a hardened steel cutter inside plus a one-touch release on the bottom for emptying the shavings. We see a future classic.

See the USA with this 36” x 20” map of the states, all (50) of them. Scratch the black and white surface with the proverbial coin, lottery ticket-style, and reveal the colorful state beneath the name. It’s a fun way to keep track of travel, and you won’t throw away two bucks every time you scratch. Sure, go ahead and sniff if you like, but thankfully the map just smells like paper.

Looking for a 1-oz bottle with a 5/8" ID mouth and a feminine look? The decorative striated pattern molded into this clear-plastic 4" tall x 1" dia bottle, in addition to making it easy to open, gives it the look of an old-fashioned lipstick tube. Teamed with the non-gasketed purple-plastic screw cap, it's decidedly girlish!

Conceived at the confluence of messenger bags and totes, these nylon carryalls measure 16" x 12" x 5" with a zipper closure, a 10" deep exterior pocket, 9" long straps and a removable and adjustable shoulder strap with swivels. You pick the stylish purple or the equally stylish teal.

You’re not alone. Lots of people pretend they’re rock stars in the bathroom, and you can enhance the pretense with this 9” long, red-handled hair brush with a built-in electronic microphone (“…we’ll be back to pick you up later!”),1/2W amp and 1” speaker in the handle. Will also play sounds from a media player or phone via standard 1/8” input jack on a 4-foot jumper cord. Has power, dual-level volume and mic kill buttons. Runs on (3) “AAA” batteries that you add. Brush is removable for cleaning.

From the mid-20th-century German military, this is a fully functional field phone. Weighs in at 8.2 lbs, and comes self-contained in a 10-1/4" x 6-3/4" x 4-1/4" dark brown Bakelite case with a handset on a 4-foot cord, a 52” 2-pin jumper, 25” TT plug cord, ringer crank and a battery holder for the pair of D-cells you’ll need to add. Side has slots for the carrying cord that we don’t have, and the inside lid has a full schematic. Should work with standard stereo speaker wire, and we’d get a pair of these phones if we were you. Small quantity available. These are surplus and have wear and tear on them. We will pick the nicest of the lot. 

This QMD (Quality Medical Devices of Canada) micro-perfed surgical tape is clear, transparent, and hypoallergenic. Made for easy tearing in either direction and often used for taping down IV tubes among other uses. Our each is (12) rolls, 1" wide x 30-feet.

It's easier if you start off with genuine name-brand Sharpie® brand Sharpies like these. This set of (5) permanent markers includes (1) each in black, red, blue and green with fine points, plus an alarming neon yellow highlighter with a wedge tip. Pocket clips galore. And the packaging is in Spanish, so you’ll learn words like permanente and colores, but they write just fine in English.

Not really just for voodoo. They’re from Voodoo Tactical™ in 100% nylon designed for the rigorous demands of, well, tactical stuff. Stretch material will fit most hands from Medium to Large. Durable and reliable, they’re black with pink skeleton bones on top, along with a logo. Wrists close with hook-and-loop straps.

Extend the reach of your favorite USB 2.0 port with this handy 6 ft. desk mounted extension cable from GE™. Male on the end that goes to port you want to extend, and has a flat adhesive base on the business end, making it perfect for mounting to a desk. It's clear jacketed with visible cable shielding for reinforcement which will also help to prevent the cable from kinking because no one likes when their USB gets kinked and they lose all that data pressure.