This past summer I was able to snag a reasonably current, 16", world globe from eBay at a good price. New, these start around $200-$300 on sale. It replaced an old 12", floor model that my kids grew up with as just part of the family room furniture. Thirty years later, it's a standing joke about "well look it up", when a place in the news or just a distant location came up. So after all the remarks about abusive childhoods were made, each spent about 1/2 an hour, comparing it to the one they knew so well and asked what I was going to do with the old one with comments like "it my turn to torturer my kids" .
I've spent the last few months hawking eBay and have been luck to snatch a couple more for well under $100 each. (Guess what the family Christmas presents are going to be? )

A small (2 HP or less) air compressor is another item that I can not conceive of being without. I've made mention before about being the neighborhood filling station of everything from large pool toys and bicycle tires, to running small pneumatic tools. It seems everybody doesn't share my view of 'basic necessities', (even though they like to share my compressor).

This got me to wondering what Pixies might consider long term indispensables that not every neighbor may have (but sure likes yours ).

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