Kite Buen Hombre Carabiner Keychain

Everybody who kites has lost keys.

Usually in sand, occasionally in water, most often in the twenty minutes of shuffling between the car and the beach when a pocket is the wrong place for anything and nobody has quite decided who is holding what.

So: a carabiner rather than a keyring. In Kite Buen Hombre blue, with the logo on it. It clips to a board bag, a rucksack strap, a belt loop, the handle of whatever you are carrying — anywhere on the outside, where you can see it, which is the entire reason it exists. Keys on the outside of a bag do not fall out of a pocket you forgot you were wearing.

The rest of the year it lives on your house keys and reminds you of a week in the Caribbean every time you open your front door, which for ten dollars is a reasonable rate of return.

Ten dollars, at both schools. It is also the thing most people buy last, standing at the counter, having already decided not to buy anything.