By Susan Schwartz
If you love working from home but your boss is on your back about returning to the office, now might be a great time to send him a life-size version of yourself.
In honour of Amazon Prime Day, where members get discounts until July 15 across the shopping platform, here’s a collection of some of the weirdest products found online:
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- Send your boss the gift of yourself. A life-size cardboard cut-out could be used when you need a stand-in at an office meeting, on zoom calls, or just propped casually in a corner of the office looking busy. Click here to buy.
2. Perhaps you know someone who is in a bit of an emotional bind. The emotional support pickle is just the thing. The green knitted pickle comes with a card printed with encouraging words; “I will always be around to let you know that you are a BIG DILL.” It promises that whoever you send it to “they will remember you.” Perhaps just not in the way you may think. Click here to buy.
3. If you find it hard to have some time to yourself, the Ostrich pillow screams “leave me alone, I’m power napping.” It comes with a travel bag for those brave enough to don it on a plane. Click here to buy.
4. With more people keeping chickens in the backyard, why not take them out for a walk? The chicken harness and leash is designed to be adjustable and breathable, plus it comes with a bow tie at the front. What more could a fashionable chook want? Click here to buy.
5. The novelty drinking helmet is the kind of thing you might have seen daggy teenagers experimenting with in the movies. Drink from two cans at the same time with regulating valves to control and close the straw. Fits all head sizes securely, including those without much up top. Click here to buy.
6. Maybe your little ones are having trouble learning how to use chopsticks, or maybe you just want to dazzle at your next dinner party. Whatever the situation The Force will be with you with these light sabre chopsticks. Available in nine different colours. Click here to buy.
7. Now’s your chance to tame a crocodile risk-free with the Crocodile pool decoy. The product blurb says it’s not a toy – but go on, wrestle it – I know you want to. Designed to float on water or display on land. Click here to buy.
8. There will be no more greasy chip fingers with these finger food covers for cheesy food. The reuseable silicone potato chip grabbers can be washed and are designed for all finger sizes. Click here to buy.
9. Who needs a boyfriend when you can buy a Boyfriend Body Pillow? Designed to cuddle and comfort with its extended arm, it’s made from cotton. Click here to buy.
10. The Anti-grinch box is only for those with a sense of humour, as the description blub warns: “Do not present this funny gag gift for adults to any snowflakes who can’t laugh at themselves.“ Click here to buy.
