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In these “Low-Rise Crystal Sweats” you can be branded on the hide just like a cow! Sparkly, garish and in your place. Also available saying “newlywed” or “bride to be”.

This head of iceberg lettuce looks real enough, but don’t go slicing your tomatoes just yet, because it’s actually a security device with a hidden compartment to hide your heirlooms and diamonds in. Those nasty burglars would never find ‘em in there.

Buy it here for around NZD$69.

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Some people might think a frying pan which makes eggs into heart shapes would be romantic. It’s not. However, it is deeply amusing and bursting with potentialfor irony.

Buy it at Crazy About Gadgets.

Lifesized Stand Ups (the home of cardboard) has a huge range of cardboard cutouts of various sizes. But these two life-sized versions of George W Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton are our favourites…

I remember these books vividly from my early childhood. I had completely forgotten about them until one turned up in our bedtime story pile from the grandfolks and prompted me to find more…