Over the years, I have collected, without understanding why, small containers, minature bottles, cans and even boxes. Well, I now know why. I am to create a minature 21st Century Mercantile, a modern day general store, if you will, with containers, labled, of 21st century essential oils, potions, and tools.

We all grew up knowing that witches had spice racks full of Eye of Newt, Essence of Frog Lips, Dragon Blood, and other wonders. And each one of us, have either searched, or sent some new-bee out to search for a essential (mythical) item, tool, or product.

Which Air Force Vet hasn't sent a young naive troop out for a bucket of Prop Wash, or a few feet of Flightline? And I have heard Navy Vets fondly recall their unofficial ship-wide scavenger hunt for the replace batteries for the Sound Powered Telephone. Ordnance Techicians, Bomb and Bullet Counters, never have enough Low Drag High Speed Bomb Paint. I even remember my Great Great Grandmother, a high-paid union Seemstress, laughing over sending a new employee to search for a thimble full of Thread Count.

Enough introduction. I fully suspect each of us, in our personal universe know of an 21st Century Essential. Please tell me, so I can fill my little minature mercantile shop' shelves with a those great, often humorous, likely mythical, always hard to find items. Being ignorant of your specific world needs, please tell me the name of the product, the method of shipping, and if possible a brief description, i.e. Thread Count was always stored and carried by the Thimble-full, while Prop Wash was always a lovely Air Force Blue liquid that was required by the Bucket-full, and Flightline was store by the roll, and used by "a few feet".

I look forward to creating the ultimate inventory of our mythical essentials.

Forgot my favorite tool, the Box Stretcher, a tool used to solve that problem when you find you have just a wee bit more stuff than a box-full. Send the newest employee to the dusty basement to retrieve the Box-Stretcher. This item always seems to be needed at coffee break time, or lunchtime.

Thanks in advance.