Hold–It — 'Never lose your straw again'

Finally.

You know that slender hollow red plastic tube that comes scotch–taped to a can of WD-40?

It's called a straw and it's precision–engineered to fit into the can's spray nozzle head to precisely focus the WD-40 on the job at hand.

But after you peel off the tape to use the straw the tape doesn't work very well anymore, mostly because the WD-40 on it makes it very slippery.

And so, after a use or two the straw is lost and you end up using the rest of the can by saturating the nearby vicinity along with your intended target.

Well, guess what: someone invented a little doohickey called, sensibly enough, the Hold–It, to keep the straw from going missing.

From the website:

• Keeps straw attached to a variety of containers

• Maintains straw under extreme conditions

• Constructed of an extremely durable material

• One–piece component that can be used again and again

$4.99 for 12 here.

Oh, for crying out loud, just get the dozen and give them to your friends or, better yet (and what I'd do), simply put the doohickies on their cans of WD-40 surreptitiously.

Though probably they've already lost their straws so your secret gift won't mean a whole lot.

Straws, minds, they all go eventually.

[via Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools]