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🧠✨ Tiny Dopamine Purchases Under $20
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items Sometimes I don’t need a life-changing purchase. I need a $7 ridiculous little object that makes my brain go ✨DING✨.
This is my collection of colorful, cozy, crafty, funny, weird and completely unnecessary little things that make an ordinary day app...
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🌈 COLORFUL HAPPY-BRAIN THINGS
✍️Tiny Things for Creative Brains
🐸 THE FROG DEPARTMENT
🤏 THINGS TO POKE, SQUISH & FIDGET WITH
💌 LITTLE PICK-ME-UPS
🛁 CHEAP COZY SHIT
🌈 COLORFUL HAPPY-BRAIN THINGS
Stick this on a sunny window and suddenly your walls are throwing tiny rainbow parties. I love anything that makes a room happier without requiring me to actually redecorate it.
Rainbow Suncatchers for Windows
Tiny rainbows bouncing around the room for absolutely no reason? Sold. Put one near a sunny window and wait for your inner crow to become obsessed with all the sparkly things.
6Pcs Colorful Crystal Suncatcher Hanging
Does my house NEED a miniature disco ball? No. That’s an irrelevant question. 😂 Put it near sunlight and suddenly the room has freckles.
Small Disco Balls
Instant cozy weirdness. Turn off the big light, point this at a wall and suddenly your boring bedroom looks like you put effort into having an aesthetic.
Tsrarey Sunset Lamp Projector, 180° Rotation
Mushrooms already look like tiny houses for weird forest creatures, so obviously they should glow too.
Mushroom Night Light
✍️Tiny Things for Creative Brains
Writing a grocery list? Boring. Writing it in sparkly purple ink? We have elevated the experience. These are also ridiculously fun for journals, cards and doodling.
Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Gel Pens, Colored ...
Do I need 48 different colors of ink? YES, because apparently “blue” isn’t specific enough anymore.
Rainbow Gel Pens
love little sketchbooks because there’s way less pressure than staring at a giant blank page. Doodle something stupid. Draw a frog. Write an angry sentence. Done.
A Review of Tiny Sketchbooks - MastaFran Comics
Tiny art supplies automatically make me want them. Keep one in your bag and suddenly you’re the kind of person who casually paints things places.
Watercolor Pocket Set - 5 Themes Value Bundle
Stickers are basically tattoos for objects. Water bottles, journals, storage bins, laptops… if it’s boring, slap something weird on it.
Cute Stickers & Sheets - Animals, Rainbows & More
🐸 THE FROG DEPARTMENT
Hide them around your house. Put one in a plant. Give one to somebody without explanation. Tiny frogs have endless possibilities.
Mini Frog
Your houseplant has been working hard producing oxygen and deserves a tiny frog roommate.
Talavera Frog Planter - Ceramic Pots for Plants
Give me frogs with cowboy hats. Frogs drinking coffee. Frogs having existential crises. I want the whole tiny amphibian cinematic universe.
Frog Stickers
Is it useful? Technically, because it holds keys. Is that why I’m buying it? Absolutely not.
Frog Keychain
Perfect for rings, earrings, tiny treasures and all the random crap currently living on your dresser.
Cute Mushroom Frog Jewelry Dish Trinket Tray
🤏 THINGS TO POKE, SQUISH & FIDGET WITH
This thing has NO business being this satisfying. Squish it while watching TV, thinking, waiting or trying not to lose your patience with humanity.
NeeDoh® Nice Cube | The Original Sensory Ice Cube Squish
Tiny magnetic balls you can smoosh, shape and fiddle with while your brain is doing seventeen other things. Dangerously satisfying.
Speks Mini Magnet Balls
Twist it, turn it, take it everywhere. It’s especially good when your hands apparently need their own separate activity
Tangle Creations
A tiny fidget attached to something I’m already carrying is exactly the kind of unnecessary efficiency I appreciate.
Pop Fidget Toys Bulk 30 Pack Mini Party Favors
They’re tiny. They’re squishy. They’re ridiculous. I have no further argument.
Mochi Squishy Animals - Fun Squeeze Toys
💌 LITTLE PICK-ME-UPS
I love little reminders you can actually keep somewhere you’ll see them. Stick one in your wallet, mirror, car or give one to somebody who needs it.
100 Affirmation Cards for Women & Men
Tiny messages can hit surprisingly hard on the right day. Put them on mirrors, notebooks or sneak one into somebody’s stuff as a little “hey, you’re doing okay.”
Affirmation Stickers
Corny? Maybe a tiny bit. Would I still secretly love somebody giving me one? Yep. Perfect little addition to a care package.
Pocket Hug Token
Sometimes “practice gratitude” makes me want to throw the journal across the room. 😂 Give me one that admits brains are weird and lets me write honestly.
Mental Health Journal Funny
Great if you WANT to journal but opening a completely blank notebook makes your brain immediately forget every thought you’ve ever had.
Guided Journals & Modern Journals By Jen Simpson Design
🛁 CHEAP COZY SHIT
For those of us without the patience to prepare an elaborate candlelit bath. Throw one in the shower and pretend you’re at a spa instead of five feet away from laundry.
Aromatherapy & Natural Shower Steamers
Not groundbreaking. Still undefeated. Cold feet make everything approximately 400% more annoying.
Fuzzy Socks
Sometimes the solution is simply: nobody look at me, I’m unavailable.
Cute Sleep Mask
One for the purse, one for the car, one beside the bed and somehow I’ll still never be able to find one.
Mini hand lotions - Panier des Sens
Lip balm in a ridiculous flavor or cute container is exactly the kind of tiny purchase my inner 12-year-old continues to support.
Funny Lip Balm
😂 COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY DEPARTMENTs
There is absolutely no mature reason to own tiny plastic hands that go on your fingers.
Which is precisely why you should.
Tiny Hands
A crocheted pickle holding an encouraging message is so stupidly wholesome that I cannot fight it.
What Do You Meme? Emotional Support Pickles Plush ...
Same concept. Different vegetable. 😂 Tiny potato believes in you even if nobody else has their shit together today.
Custom Message Positive Potato Family Plushies
Adorable AND it sucks up crumbs? Finally, an impulse purchase prepared to contribute to the household.
USB Mini Vacuum Cleaner, Assorted Colors, 1-ct.
Put tiny candy, prizes or ridiculous notes inside. Is this necessary for adult life? Absolutely. Don’t ask follow-up questions.
Mini Claw Machines for Sale
💖 LITTLE GIFTS FOR SOMEBODY HAVING A CRAPPY DAY
Coloring is one of my favorite “please shut up for five minutes, brain” activities. Add a cheap pack of markers and you’ve got an instant little care package.
Mini Coloring Books for Adults — 66 Designs, $9.99
I like gifts people can actually carry instead of another object destined to live on a shelf forever.
Thinking of You Maple Keychain, Personalized Boyfriend Gift
Bonus points for ridiculous scent names. If I’m going to light a candle, I want the label to make me laugh too.
Small Jar Scented Candles
Frogs? Mushrooms? Swearing? Rainbows? Give me socks with an unreasonable amount of personality.
Fun Socks | Funny Socks
Sometimes you need something to DO more than something to HAVE. Tiny embroidery kits, painting kits, bracelet kits and little DIY projects are perfect boredom medicine.
Eco-Friendly Craft Kits for Kids