I am getting one of those Chumby Internet appliances for my birthday, father’s day and part of Christmas, they shipped it but right now, I kid you not, UPS tracking has it at a place called “Chek Lap Kok” - so I did and discovered my fly was open… how long have I been walking around like that?
Anyway it sounds like the tweakers are making new applications for it (the chumby) all the time… I hardly ever get in early on anything because it’s better to wait for the shakedown and eventual price drop. My “1/2″ car had a tape player in it. (You know, “The average American father and mother have one whole car and half of another” - Jerry Reed)
Getting back to the Chumby… I guess I shouldn’t mind that they ship this (presumably) direct from the factory… But I sure hope they have a decent instruction/setup manual, instead of a scrap of paper saying “not to use in bathtub” or “DO NOT EAT”.
Our eternal quest for the perfect shopping cart continues- Now we are trying Volusion - a bit more pricey than our last effort but renting a storefront in a building would be a lot more, I reasoned…
We only have maybe a few dozen items up so far, but it looks good so far. I think the checkout could be a little more streamlined, and I don’t like it demanding customer emails AND phone numbers, but hey, you can’t have everything. We are planning to move more into mail order with a catalog and all anyway.
Have a look, this one is called NoveltyTradingPost.com
I had some better names in mind but domain name squatters were peddling them and I won’t do business with scalpers. That’s basically what they are, same as ticket scalpers, standing in the alley with your tickets to CATS or whatever at twice the price, and would you be interested in a Shmolex timepiece?
We are planning a change in shopping cart providers..
so our old site has lots of “deals” in the ThatRestlessMouse.com Sale Page.
Here is a case in point.
ITEM #BD1515: Bottle Cap Magnets: Set of 16, Now only $2.97
You get all SIXTEEN magnets shown here, it’s the complete “Magnet Mania” series. They come as a set of 4 display squares with 4 magnets each. Do the math.
It includes the “Flavors” set (GRAPE SODA, CREAM SODA, LEMON LIME, and ROOT BEER… plus the The “colorblindness test” set (Well, that’s what it looks like! …and the “fruit logo” set;
On a more useful note, you also get the “message set”, those caps say “Call back!, “Things to do”, Urgent!, and “don’t forget!” They are also known as “Type A” magnets, I have decreed.
ALL have good strong magnets and will hold papers and stuff like that securely on your fridge. One lady bought a bunch just for the magnets themselves.
They are on sale for a pittance; See the bottlecap magnet set in more detail here, the ad will have the current inventory, as of this writing we have 9 sets left, and I don’t think I can get more.
I was just reading this Study on the health benefits of Laughter… Makes me wonder… If laughter is the best medicine, what is sarcasm? Are there health benefits to smirking? Or does it have to be a belly laugh? Does it work better on fat people then? There are many unanswered questions.
I was looking at the obituaries in our local paper; saddened to see that while 6 people “passed away” and seven simply “died”, only two “went to be with our lord” or something to that effect; I’m not counting the one young lady that “Went to live with Jesus”, as I am not convinced by the writing there that she didn’t simply run off with a Mexican guy*. Nor am I counting another guy whose obit covered a most interesting live of 80+ years but did not indicate that he had left this earthly realm. He seemed to be a tough guy, I’m not counting him out just yet.
My obit won’t be near as interesting, but can I help it if I didn’t grow up in a hardscrabble logging camp?
* Not that there’s anything wrong with that! sheesh!
Our supplier is very secretive about where he gets the
Retro Magnetic Scotty Dog sets - I try to keep them in stock, but there seems to be an insatiable demand for this sort of little retro toy. So many have been sold over so many years, I wonder how many orphaned scotty dogs are stuck inside heating ducts, in drawers, slightly below ground in the yard, under car seats in wrecking yards, where have I forgotten to look? No matter, we have them at $2.99 a set and call that retail.
I was looking at the search logs for last week, seems someone searched for “wholesale novelty company” right here, and got no results! This post will correct that- just click on the “golden handtruck” above!
And for those using sort of generic terms looking for our retail division, buy direct, shop the “golden shopping cart” above for that! I’m talking to you, mister “weird novelty gifts”, “gag playing cards”, “desk toys”, “giant desk toys”….
We are going to have “review posts” here for everything, but I found that I had too many irons in the fire, so guess I better get to my blacksmithing job… There’s nothing worse than an angry blacksmithing “team leader” (sarcastic poke at a major local factory I moonlight at).
The thing that creeps me out about this life-size wind-up mouse toy is the way the tail moves as it goes. The one we took for product testing drives the dog NUTS. It kind of creeps people out, my mom’s dog doesn’t get one because it gives her the willies (Mom, not the dog).
The windup mouse toy comes in white, gray, black, or brown fur, you can request your desired color(s) in the comments field when you order, most folks don’t really care, in that case we will send whatever is top of the box. Just $2.29 ea.
Item #GG1220; Supremely Tacky Striptease Lady Pen
When
turned over, her clothes disappear, revealing her naughty bits. Our choice of barrel colors, click and scribble tested before shipping! I had to spray paint the picture a little because some of the pens are stored upside down. (No sneak previews!) Sorry, pen cannot be imprinted (Most of barrel is consumed by the naked lady display, rest is too curved to imprint) Just $1.99 each, cheap flat rate shipping too.
It’s amazing to an older guy like me, that anytime of the day or night, I can watch
Guys with binoculars strapped to their heads playing soccer in Japan.
