Our top picks for this week

Day after day we — your friendly, neighborhood shopping writers — scour the internet to bring you all the details on the best possible deals on tech, gadgets, and products to make life a little bit easier. 

On our quest to bring you said savings on the top-rated Instant Pots and headphones, we often find ourselves running into some pretty weird shit. 

And trust us, the underbelly of Amazon can be a very, very strange place. 

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Both for comedic purposes and because if we had to see them, then everyone else should have to, too, we’ve rounded up some of the most head-scratching items currently available on Amazon. Some are oddly endearing, some are gross, and some are just downright confusing, but they can all be yours by tomorrow if you have a Prime account. 

Here are some of the weirdest things we spotted on Amazon this week:

Sure, you could use an old-fashioned piggy bank shaped like an actual pig or you could switch it up with this terrifying robotic one. Thanks to a built-in motion sensor under its mouth that activates when your hand gets close, you can stare into its beady, lifeless eyes as you feed it your change. On the bright side, saving up should be easy since you’ll probably be too creeped out to remove its contents.

Price: $13.99

So in theory, a hands-free, wearable umbrella is a pretty solid idea — but some inventions just don’t hold up when brought to reality. If it were just a hat sans chin strap, perhaps it wouldn’t elicit such humor. But it does. Honestly, the next time you’re walking out of Trader Joe’s carrying groceries and balancing an umbrella in the rain while the paper bags began to rip, you’ll be wishing you had one. 

Price: $15.99 

Banksy once said, “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable,” which this DIY crossstitch design of a woman sitting on a toilet definitely accomplishes. Impress your guests with your crafting abilities and your fine taste in art by letting this bad boy take up real estate on your walls. We suggest hanging it in the bathroom, because why not keep it on-brand?  

Price: $7.98

If you didn’t know you could buy an entire bag of live ladybugs on Amazon, now you do. For the low price of $6.50, you’ll get 1,500 live adult ladybugs delivered to your house. Since they feed on pesky insects like moths, mites, and beetles, it can be assumed the purpose of this is for gardening, but if you’re in the market for a few low-maintenance pets then that works, too. 

Before diving into the wonderful depths of Amazon, we had no idea taco holders were even a thing. This one is shaped like a unicorn and features a removable mane and tail so when it’s time to get down to business, the purple and pink strands don’t get in the way of your Taco Tuesday. Oh, and it’s also dishwasher safe.

Price: $14.99

One of our favorites finds on Prime Day was discovering the intriguing existence of pillows doubling as hyper-realistic, 3D versions of food. This fried chicken leg pillow stands out from the roundup thanks to it’s mind-boggling appearance of — dare we say — moistness. If it doesn’t make you want to curl up and dream sweet dreams of KFC, we don’t know what does. 

Price: $13.99 

Thanks to the ToiLight’s LED toilet light, you’ll be wondering if you walked into your bathroom or a nightclub in Ibiza. But really, it is pretty functional. If you’ve ever used the bathroom in the middle of the night only to toss and turn after because of the blinding light, the motion-activated mood light offers a soothing alternative. Plus it has eight different colors to choose from, so you can create your very own light show in an array of shades. 

Price: $9.99 

If you’ve ever found yourself biting into a buttery, salted ear of fresh corn on the cob wishing, “if only this were a gummy,” you’re in luck. Weighing in at approximately half a pound and created with green apple, mango, and buttered popcorn flavors, this gummy corn is candied vegetables at their finest. Plus it comes on a stick for easier eating. 

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Keeping up with your dental hygiene is important, as is respecting your elders. So why not invest in a wall decal featuring both for some inspiration? While we’re not entirely sure how this puzzling wall art came to be, we’re just happy that it did. She looks pretty happy, too (see that smize?). 

Price: $21.96 

Behold: a specialized egg cooker designed to cook eggs into a cylindrical tube. Yes, a tube. While the photos of the finished egg coming out of the Rollie in all its tubed, transformed, slimy glory are a bit much, it does seem pretty convenient. 

Here’s what Amazon reviewer had to say: 

“I’m giving Rollie five stars because it is absolutely perfect for cooking eggs when I am black out drunk and should not be using a frying pan. I don’t mind the blandness of the Rollie egg when I’m so drunk. I just care that food is entering my body.” 

So yeah, there’s that. Get it for $29.81.