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Toxic Spill Coaster is Drop-Drink Gorgeous

Coasters are coasters are coasters. But every now and then, something unique comes along and makes an impact…

These Toxic Spills glowing coasters will do just that, in the light and in the dark! Get 4 in a set for just $11.95 (about R85).

They look awesome, are easy to wash and will certainly add some personality to your drinks!

Animal Weight Categories – What Are You?

Sometimes we have to face the truth (despite it being easier to ignore). That’s why this Animal Weighing Scale won’t tell you exactly how much you weigh, instead they will make a rough comparison…

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Just hop on the scale and you’ll be told your weight by way of a regular animal. So for a mere £25.99 (about R314), you can find out if you’re up there with the baby rabbit, duck, pig or bear! Get it in a variety of colours over here.

The Living Landscape Sofa is Super Supple

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Where are sofas usually placed in a room and what does it have to look like to allow complex use of space? To answer these questions, the EOOS team analyzed several hundreds of ground plans and found that sofas are typically positioned like walls – inflexibly and dividing a room. Not anymore…

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Living Landscape by EOOS detaches individual elements from the conventional “sofa wall”: all corner elements can be rotated through 90 degrees, allowing not only for entirely new perspectives, but also for the completely flexible use of space in response to the most varied situations.

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Come on! How slick is that?

Light Up Your Phone Line

Did you know that the trickle of power a normal phone line carries (even if out of service) is apparently enough to light up this LED desk lamp?

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The little phone plug is called an “RJ11 connector” and for just $4.69 (about R30) the lampcan be used as a handy emergency light for your next power outage. Who cares that it’s pink!? Get yours here.

What a Pimp Palace!

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Just look at this gorgeous home…

A Good (Wine) Rack Gets Much Praise

Samuel Johnson said “One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

This unique Grape Wine Rack is the ideal place to keep your favourite tipple!

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It will look great in any home, especially after a fine merlot… just remember to leave something in the wine rack, or it’s a bit pointless spending £79.99 (about R1000) over here.

Why not read a few old wine proverbs? Here you go…

  • Old wine and old friends are enough provision
  • Good wine carrieth a man to heaven
  • Drunkenness is not the wine’s fault, but the man’s
  • A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds
  • Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen
  • The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations
  • In water one sees one’s own face, but in wine one beholds the heart of another
  • There are more old wine drinkers than old doctors
  • Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved
  • Take the drink for the thirst that is yet to come
  • One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints
  • Drink a glass of wine after your soup, and you steal a ruble from the doctor
  • With wine and hope, anything is possible
  • Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach

Frozen Dentures to Cool Your Drink!

How awesome are these bedside denture ice cube moulds?!

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Each tray will hold two sets of frozen dentures. So just add water, wait a bit and you have enough false teeth ice for four drinks or two drinks with a complete set of dentures. Get em here!

Funky Tape Measuring Tape

This cassette tape is literally a measuring “tape”!

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The Mix Tape measuring tape can measure over 2.5m in length and oozes with retro funkiness! Get is for $10 (about) over here.

Floating House in Seattle

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This place is definitely not for those who have a water phobia or who mind seeing a few boats swinging nearby when looking out the window. It’s located in Lake Union, Seattle and has an awesome interior and exterior design. Its room structure was designed so that all the private areas like bedrooms and bathrooms be placed on the ground floor in order for the second story to be dedicated to one large entertainment room. Sliding doors reveal an outdoor terrace for relaxing and enjoyable views.

I could easily live here! Check it out…

Bear-Claw Firelighters for the Seasoned Pyromaniac

Bear Grylls can start a fire with two green two twigs in the rain, but us normal people prefer to do things the easy way:

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These KM Firelighters are basically gigantic matches – so big, in fact, that I can’t imagine the fireball and plume of smoke these things emit when scraped against your rough, expendable surface of choice – seriously, each match is so large that you can count the tree rings! They burn for 8 minutes and are bound to get any braai going fast!

Get a pack of 20 here for $60 (about R435).

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