#prickle roller

These were at Staples Business Depot (Canada) and I thought they were pretty stimmy!

First one is a notebook with a LEGO-like texture of silicon for the cover. Is comes with two silicon “bricks” that you can stick on the cover and peel off. The bumps feel a little like popping bubble wrap. This was $2.97 CAD on clearance.

Second is long, rope-like erasers. They remind me of liquorice rope! They come in four different twisty textures; smooth (no twist), slight/loose twist, a medium twist that looks/feels a lot like liquorice rope, and a tight twist that feels like the smooth one but with little bumps and ridges. They were over a foot long, maybe 18 inches? These were $0.87 CAD on clearance.

Last was a rolling massager with an extendable handle. The handles had a soft squishy foam coating on them and came in three colours; red, orange, and lime green. The bumps on the rolling part where made of a firm, plastic-like rubber, they had a tiny bit of give but weren’t what I’d call soft. In the image it looks like the roller is divided into sections that each roll independently, but it’s all one piece of rubber. I couldn’t find a price for these anywhere sadly, but I’d imagine they wouldn’t be more than $4 CAD.

(Sorry for no proper image descriptions! They’re difficult for me)

@newt-safeforwork, thank you so much for giving us another source for the rolling massagers!

I love posts like this that point out the stimmy potential in stationery items, as they’re often easy to find and stealth for school and office stimmers. Thank you!

Roller pen: Daiso, $2.80 AUD.

This is just a standard four colour click pen in red, black, blue and green. It works just like any other four colour pen. The interesting part is the roller, made from a slightly squishy vinyl that’s just firm enough to press against the skin but not so hard as to cause pain. It’s the most gentle massage roller I have and feels good against face, lips or fingers.

It can also be used as a kind of spinner: the roller can be spun, and it makes a noise like toy car wheels on a hard floor. It doesn’t last very long, perhaps 30 seconds at most.

[image description: four goodies from Daiso, left to right, top to bottom. 1 - Pink and white ‘Zenshin Roller’ on a white card with Japanese text. A white knobbled roller-massager set into a pink frame with grooves for holding in one’s fingers. 2 - Bag of makeup sponges in various shapes coloured pink, white, blue, cream, purple and yellow labelled ‘Sponges Reasonable Pack 25 PCS’ followed by text in Japanese, Spanish and (I think) Portugese. 3 - Pink and green clear plastic liquid motion bubbler. 4 - Pack of three beige fabric cotton puffs in a green plastic bag.]

For those wanting an inexpensive roller akin to those available from The Therapy Shoppe, Daiso has these little hand-held ones. The massager is a little soft and feels nice to roll over skin with some tissue or muscle behind it. Sadly, it’s not curved, so it doesn’t follow the planes of my body very well save for my thighs, but I suspect this might not be such a problem for larger adults. (A roller with a little curve would reach more of my skin/fit my body more comfortably.) I also find the knobbles a little too widely placed, so I don’t have as many of them hitting my skin as, say, rolling a prickle ball.

The bag of sponges are soft, fun, inexpensive squishables. The big yellow and green sponge is the best one to roll and squish, but all the others are nice to touch.

The cotton puffs aren’t nice to touch at all. They’re covered with a soft, unremarkable cotton that I find rather boring. While I squish a sponge every time I open my underwear drawer (they’re stored in a box in that drawer) I don’t touch the cotton puffs, and I’ll likely give them away to someone who wears makeup and might use them for their actual purpose.

The bubbler/dripper is great! I have mine on my desk and I tip it over whenever I want to watch the pretty. It reminds me of a sand art picture Oma and Opa used to have that you could tip upside down to watch the sand move, just on a smaller scale.