Emergency Googly Eyes
A tin of twenty pairs of adhesive plastic googly eyes in four sizes. Peel the backs and stick them on whatever is too serious. A portable classic from Archie McPhee, and one of the few novelty gifts that gets used after the day it is opened.
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Googly eyes are not a new idea, which is the point. The tin packages a kindergarten material as emergency equipment, and the emergency is that an object in the room has no face. Twenty pairs in four sizes is enough to do a laptop, a mug, and a stapler and still have a reserve. The adhesive is on the eye, so there is no separate glue to lose. At eight dollars it is a stocking gift that does not look like filler, because the tin has a graphic and a lid and the eyes are a tool the recipient will actually spend. This is also one of the rare items on a weird-gift list that survives contact with an office. Faces on inanimate objects are a joke almost everyone already knows.
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