Retailers and products specializing in pastimes are the focus of this part of our web guide.
Pastimes are leisurely pursuits people engage in to pass the time and enjoy themselves. Commonly done in one's spare time, these activities bring amusement, diversion, and pleasure. They make time pass more agreeably and provide a sense of relaxation.
While sports, games, and hobbies might be considered pastimes when entered into non-competitively or without a profit motive, we have more specific categories for these activities.
Examples of pastimes, for categorization, are visiting amusement parks, museums, or former battle sites, engaging in reading, trivia games, horoscopes, and jokes, as well as others that meet the description and aren't included in a more specific category.
This part of our directory is about shopping, and the focus is on products or online retailers specializing in products designed to promote or advance these pastimes.
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Founded as a family business in 2015, ColorIt specializes in adult coloring books. It offers top binding to remove the center binding obstacle for right—and left-handed colorists, 120-pound, acid-free paper to prevent bleeding from most markers, and a complimentary blotter for rare bleeding. In addition to coloring books, ColorIt offers premium colored pencils, gel pens, watercolor brush pens, dual-tip alcohol markers, and other products. Refills and cases are available.
https://www.colorit.com/
In business since 1941, Dover is an e-commerce bookstore that specializes in classic literature, and coloring books for adults and children, sorted by format, subject, and series. Other sortings include new releases, best-sellers, holiday items, sale items, and Dover Thrift Editions in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and study editions. Customers may sign up for a newsletter that includes free samples of coloring pages, literature excerpts, puzzles, children's activities, and others.
https://store.doverpublications.com/
Providing entertaining gifts, pranks, magic, and fun stuff for people of all ages since 1996, the online shopping site stocks a large variety of items, including various types of noise makers, crime scene tape, squirt pens, fake roaches, air fresheners in odd scents, fake glasses, beards, noses, and teeth, fake certificates, a folding spoon, fake cigars, prank cans and boxes, fake bullet holes, finger puppets, plastic coins, pet costumes, gag gifts, whoopie cushions, and magic props.
https://www.gagworks.com/
Owned by Katherine and Francis Mckenna, Pastimes offers a variety of items specializing in toys, from little treats to Christmas presents. Included are merchandise dedicated to science, discoveries, and interactive kits that pair education with fun, as well as a wide variety of toys for children of all ages and adults. Besides its online retail store, the business has a brick-and-mortar store in Sechelt, British Columbia. Its location, hours, and contacts are posted.
https://www.pastimestoystore.com/
Prank-o sells empty boxes for hilariously awful but scaringly plausible products that don't actually exist, the point being that gift-givers can place someone's actual presents inside the empty Prank Pack boxes, giving them a true surprise when opened. Boxes are available in one size only (11.25" x 9" x 3.25"). Other prank gift products include fake wine labels, prank flyers, and prank gift cards. Sale items are highlighted. A wholesale catalog is also available.
https://pranko.com/
Time Passage Nostalgia Company
Based in New Hampshire, the retailer specializes in small 19th and 20th-century pop culture memorabilia and historical artifacts, as well as small old advertising and nostalgic items that people might remember from their childhood. Available items are listed on the company's online catalog, sorted into several categories representing product types, locations, language, and other variables. Photos and prices are included and shipping is free on orders over $50.
http://timepassagesnostalgia.com/
Created in 2013, the company caters to trivia night organizers and those wanting to put together trivia-based fundraisers. To plan a trivia event or trivia fundraiser, clients can decide how many rounds or categories of trivia they want to do and how many questions to include in each round, choose trivia categories, build the trivia pack, and purchase. Descriptions and videos are available, along with fundraising ideas, a FAQ, and online shopping capabilities.
https://www.triviapacks.com/
