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Liquid Timers!
Never has a bolt of “AHA!” hit my head like the time I discovered that the things that I thought were just tiny, portable non-electric lava lamps are actually timers. And no, that bolt of “AHA!” didn’t hit my dumb head four minutes ago while doing research for this important post. (Okay, yes it did.) Liquid timers can still be bought at the most respected sciences stores in the land (Spencer’s, dollar stores, the swap meet, etc…), but it felt like they were really everywhere in the 1990s and were the crown jewel of every desktop decoration menagerie.
They’re basically just clear plastic thingees that bring hours upon hours minutes upon minutes seconds upon seconds of entertainment thanks to little colored drops hypnotically dripping down. Watching those bright colored drops drip down is like watching a Care Bear spotting between periods (and yes, I definitely know what that looks like. I’ve dropped acid once). They are hypnotic and you can watch them for an eternity, or until you wonder if those drops of scientific magic taste as good as they look and you crack one open and guzzle that liquid down and start violently barfing so much that you’re rushed to the hospital with liquid timer poisoning.
And then yes, you do the same thing all over again the next day. Because that’s how hypnotizing those liquid timers are.
Pic: Kaplan Toys