The Foldable Hex Key: A Tool of Versatility and IKEA-Fueled Discovery

As I wandered through the aisles of Lowe's, searching for a tool that would aid me in disassembling my daughter's bed, I stumbled upon a long and winding narrative of frustration and discovery. The elusive hex key, it seemed, was not to be found at this particular store. I had heard tales of its utility from friends who had built IKEA furniture with ease, but our local Lowe's employee was less than sympathetic. "We don't carry that," they said with a shrug. Undeterred, I persisted in my quest, and it wasn't until I visited Dollar Tree that I finally laid hands on the tool I had been seeking. The store's inventory of hex keys came as a welcome surprise, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment at having found something so useful.

As I made my way to the checkout counter, my gaze wandered to the scattered glitter hearts in the graduation aisle. At first glance, they seemed like an incongruous addition to the season's more subdued decorations. However, as I pondered their significance, I began to see them in a new light. These tiny hearts, it occurred to me, had a certain je ne sais quoi that reminded me of New Year's Eve celebrations. The festive atmosphere and confetti-filled air seemed to be distilled into these small, shimmering orbs. I found myself wondering what other holidays might benefit from the inclusion of such decorations, and whether they might not add a touch of magic to our daily lives.

As I continued my shopping excursion, my eyes landed on an assortment of Legos – specifically, adorable Lego juice cups. Over the years, I had accumulated several rounds of these tiny treasures, each one in a different color palette. The first round, I recalled, was in primary colors; since then, the company had released new designs, including a more feminine line with pastel hues. It was a welcome surprise to find that they still produced such delightful items.

Next, I stumbled upon a mysterious box labeled "Lost Kitties." I must admit, I was perplexed by its contents – or rather, lack thereof. Typically, these types of toys come equipped with a small booklet that allows users to track their progress and interact with the feline characters within. Alas, this particular box seemed to be bereft of such niceties. As I stood there, feeling slightly bewildered, my gaze fell upon a small figurine inside the play-doh – a tiny, plastic cat. It was almost as if the toy had come to life, and for a moment, I felt like I was in on some sort of whimsical joke.

Finally, as I made my way through the store's final aisles, I spotted an intriguing assortment of snack bowls bearing the image of Nemo. The idea struck me as delightful – what if we were to create our own themed movie nights, featuring these little bowls filled with candy and snacks? It would be a fun twist on traditional family gatherings, allowing us to spice up our viewing experiences and add a touch of whimsy to our daily lives.

And so, my shopping trip came to a close. Though I may not have recovered from the sheer volume of items I had acquired, I couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction at having found such unique treasures. As I made my way home, I couldn't wait to share my haul with my niece – and perhaps even begin planning our very first Nemo-themed movie night.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthey say that everything is canceled do you know it's not it cancelled I'll tell you laundry attitude dishes my water bill blood help me that's the prayer for today we're gonna switch up the background today we're gonna be in my master bedroom and I'm obsessed I love it you have not seen this video I'll drop down below for you guys but first let's dedicate this video this video is gonna be dedicated to Lauren hue-hue me hue-hue I'm sorry if I'm not saying that correctly but thank you so much for watching my videos and for commenting I think you brett was referencing something that i said in like one of my last dollar tree halls where i got my words jumbled up and i think i said smalls hauler and she said something about how she says taking a shower kind of backwards and yeah so anyways thank you so much for being able to relate to me and this videos for you today's haul i actually grouped kind of into a different category from the once what the heck is that on here don't even know what is that is that what the virus looks like alright so i found these really adorable mirror wall decors they definitely give me just a nursery look to it and you know just a cute little boy's room but I also loved the cloud what and I love that they did a white you know trim I think that was a perfect color because I think that it can go with a lot of things plus you can repaint this easily to a darker shade it's hard you know to go from something darker to lighter then there's a little dinosaur how stinking cute is this right like and I think you can even maybe remove the mirror if you didn't want the mirror and maybe install something else but even if you didn't want to remove the mirror you could also put something on top of it but this one right here is the one that caught my eye first because this is the same whale that almost identical in shape to Vineyard Vines which is a big name brand company I have one of their hats as a matter of fact I'm gonna go grab it and show you guys the how similar it is alright so here's the Hat you see the shape of the whale there and like that's that's the same shape Vineyard Vines d'accord doop I don't know but hello I thought that was really cool and then the infected t-rex so there's that I'm kind of grabbing a trainer today because I'm also kind of sitting you move kind of sitting a little bit awkwardly on the end of my bed I got some of these Forks the older my niece gets I think I think the more the more pumpkins gonna come over but I realized I don't really have you know the utensils and things and when I say come over a lot more often I mean she's now like spending the night you know and because she's wanting to come see her aunt and she wants to come play with her toys that are here and all of those things and I was realizing that I need to be stocked up on her things so I got her the set of primary forks and spoons and it has a low key that is it's a fork and spoon set I got them in every color so that she can just pick out what color she wants to use I thought was a really cool plus I remember the box saying that they were be paid free and it also says it right here on the label as well so I think these are just so adorable so I got this I have some new mystery toys which if you don't know this about me I've only revealed this once or twice here and they're kind of hard to catch you know every single thing I say but I there I get this weird like I don't know if it's like a guilty pleasure because I don't feel any guilt but it's kind of like silly but I love watching like mystery unboxing videos like this on YouTube just like people like opening up toys and seeing what like collector items you're gonna get it and Dollar Tree has so many to choose from I wanted to do something not as girly today cuz I can tend to focus on all of the girly or pink things I'm just naturally drawn to it because I think I'm very girly in a way and my daughter my niece so I'm just constantly surrounded by girls that are very girly so I wanted to get something a little bit different and this is Doctor Strange so it's a marvel collection it tells you all of the characters you could practically collect so I am going to open this up and work I've got four by the way to choose from and usually these bags should come with an easy way to open them but I might need that's kind of that's kind of bizarre I feel like this is kind of like a waste of material and oh it's what's-his-face wait no I don't I don't know Doctor Strange so I don't know who that is we got um nightmare oh sorry nightmare was over here so his name is nightmare and that cool like what a cool little collector staying a dollar I don't know dr. Strange's but I'm sure hey let's see what we're getting again oh we got someone else that's always a good thing and we got Baron Mordor and my I'm not something I'm not saying it right am i baron more more dough more dough yeah it's really freaking cool if they have this in Star Wars I would lose my ever-loving mind or like Harry Potter I I would have bought every single one of these pockets let's see it's always fun to just kind of see what you get and sweep your up see if you get a dupe here's another one what's-his-face and the last one I leave it for but if you really like me doing stuff like this let me know and I'll just I'll buy a little bit more in my next shop oh we got someone else we got oh we got Dormammu y'all Dormammu Dormammu doorman little door somebody we got somebody that looks like they are really pissed off this item is new I've never seen it at Dollar Tree before it is part of their garden section and is sintra Nilla incense sticks I said I said what I'm there look how tall they are you just put them in like a potted plant or maybe even on the ground and I think it's sent Rinella so it should ward off the mosquitoes and you know in the south we got those we got those unfortunately great for use on patios porches decks and more and it's for outdoor use only so f.y.i oh I thought it said keep away from lightning one it's that's not even close this is what it said remove all packaging before lighting yet somehow I read keep away from lightning okay meanwhile then I found wait I only got one oh I guess I did I found the cutest scarf and it just gives me that sailor chic look I'm gonna say the word again Martha's Vineyard I said that and one of my last halls where I showed you guys that really beautiful tote white this is by far my favorite scarf ever that I've ever found at Dollar Tree and it's so summery and pretty I don't know something out of one of those fancy catalogs I love it I'm gonna put this on a straw beach bag that's what I do with mine I put them on my I tie them to a beach bag okay what is this oh this is fourth of July socks but they're hilarious this one's not hilarious it's just cute well USA flag then you have this one that looks like Uncle Sam's hats when you put your feet together not funny this one is hilarious it's uncle Uncle Sam himself look at him are you in quarantine they've been starting to put out Mother's Day stuff so if you didn't catch my last Dollar Tree haul on Monday I posted a a haul that had a lot of stuff that they were my dollar trees they were starting to put out like in a display section of like Mother's Day goodies and gifts and things they've been also putting out the handmade cards and I only got two most of them had like the rubber band still around it and I was just at that point I was trying to check out and I just was like uh next time so but I just grabbed the two that spoke to me the most I really love this one I don't think they're collection this year from like sweeping my eyes quickly was better than last year's but this one's cute too little mama bear and then okay so this I'm not gonna talk about this for too long let me tell you this is a foldable hex key and what's interesting about this and I don't know I don't I feel like maybe this is what I was trying to find at Lowe's but this is a really long snooze fest of a story but when I was moving out of the last house to here I couldn't get my daughter's bed apart and I and her bed was made by IKEA and IKEA has these like hex like tools that they use they can put your stuff together you don't really use like a Philips or screwdriver thing or things like that to build IKEA furniture so I went into Lowe's trying to find this tool and they didn't have it and or maybe the guy that I was explaining it to there was like no we don't carry that so I don't know maybe it was just a communication issue but they have these at Dollar Tree and they actually come in handy for a lot of stuff and not only IKEA but as I've been ordering furniture from like Ashley's furniture and Wayfair they all use the same like concept of the hex key to build furniture so and sometimes you know when you get those hex keys from like from one box of furniture that you order another they sent they tend to you lose them basically and that Dollar Tree you get all of these different sizes that they show right there so I just got that at my little spoon collection okay next up in the graduation aisle they put out these scattered glitter hearts but what I really liked about them was that they kind of give me like a New Year's Eve feel I know it's April but sometimes if especially if you're like me and you're really into decorating you're really into holidays I always try to look at things from a holiday perspective because they don't keep things out all year round they keep things out for seasons in a specific period of time so sometimes so I've I've been forcing myself to kind of just look at things and think what other holiday could I possibly use that for and maybe store it away and I thought of I definitely thought of New Year's Eve for those right you okay I've actually hauled these before these adorable Lego juice cups but they the first round they were like the primary colors I believe and then when I went back and I and this was years ago I think a year at least two years ago maybe even more but now they have them in the pretty girly colors and I was just like okay yes love that oh I got some more of those mystery boxes this one's weird not weird I've never seen it before Lost kitties I don't I don't know what it what lost kitties are they all what they should always typically give you a little booklet so that you can keep up with your collection oh my gosh Oh what what is this am I supposed to obey an apolog is that Plato is the kitty inside the play-doh oh I'm not playing with this oh no I think the kitty lost Kitty's there look if that's supposed to be a litter box that's I'm not down with that oh my can miss Erin I'm sorry but I'm not I'm not even going to open that up on camera today you know no no ma'am we're not doing we're not doing that I needed a moment I needed to get up and walk that off cuz I don't know what just happened it's very interesting it's very interesting concept I feel like kids would eat this up but but I not for me but you know I'm also not ten years old so it's not for me but anyway okay the very last item and I wanted to get this because I just thought of a really cute idea and I wanted to share it with you guys so it's three snack bowls of Nemo but what I thought was cute is how fun would it be to get like snack bowls like this with a Nemo theme and then you know get some candy pop some popcorn pretzels all of that and do like a family movie night of Disney movies or even just Nemo you know just to kind of like have a cute little theme when you're watching movies with the family just to kind of spice it up you know maybe change things up and do things differently because we're all in the house and we're it's just I'm sure a lot of things are maybe repetitive for some and just try to find a new way new fresh way of doing something and it would be fun to do like a movie marathon watch party and maybe do like a little Nemo theme and you know they've got a little cute decorations at Dollar Tree and like snap it up get some candy and there you go it's pretty much it for today's haul I'm not sure I'm gonna recover from this although I'd be interested to see my niece's reaction to digging through this and finding a toythey say that everything is canceled do you know it's not it cancelled I'll tell you laundry attitude dishes my water bill blood help me that's the prayer for today we're gonna switch up the background today we're gonna be in my master bedroom and I'm obsessed I love it you have not seen this video I'll drop down below for you guys but first let's dedicate this video this video is gonna be dedicated to Lauren hue-hue me hue-hue I'm sorry if I'm not saying that correctly but thank you so much for watching my videos and for commenting I think you brett was referencing something that i said in like one of my last dollar tree halls where i got my words jumbled up and i think i said smalls hauler and she said something about how she says taking a shower kind of backwards and yeah so anyways thank you so much for being able to relate to me and this videos for you today's haul i actually grouped kind of into a different category from the once what the heck is that on here don't even know what is that is that what the virus looks like alright so i found these really adorable mirror wall decors they definitely give me just a nursery look to it and you know just a cute little boy's room but I also loved the cloud what and I love that they did a white you know trim I think that was a perfect color because I think that it can go with a lot of things plus you can repaint this easily to a darker shade it's hard you know to go from something darker to lighter then there's a little dinosaur how stinking cute is this right like and I think you can even maybe remove the mirror if you didn't want the mirror and maybe install something else but even if you didn't want to remove the mirror you could also put something on top of it but this one right here is the one that caught my eye first because this is the same whale that almost identical in shape to Vineyard Vines which is a big name brand company I have one of their hats as a matter of fact I'm gonna go grab it and show you guys the how similar it is alright so here's the Hat you see the shape of the whale there and like that's that's the same shape Vineyard Vines d'accord doop I don't know but hello I thought that was really cool and then the infected t-rex so there's that I'm kind of grabbing a trainer today because I'm also kind of sitting you move kind of sitting a little bit awkwardly on the end of my bed I got some of these Forks the older my niece gets I think I think the more the more pumpkins gonna come over but I realized I don't really have you know the utensils and things and when I say come over a lot more often I mean she's now like spending the night you know and because she's wanting to come see her aunt and she wants to come play with her toys that are here and all of those things and I was realizing that I need to be stocked up on her things so I got her the set of primary forks and spoons and it has a low key that is it's a fork and spoon set I got them in every color so that she can just pick out what color she wants to use I thought was a really cool plus I remember the box saying that they were be paid free and it also says it right here on the label as well so I think these are just so adorable so I got this I have some new mystery toys which if you don't know this about me I've only revealed this once or twice here and they're kind of hard to catch you know every single thing I say but I there I get this weird like I don't know if it's like a guilty pleasure because I don't feel any guilt but it's kind of like silly but I love watching like mystery unboxing videos like this on YouTube just like people like opening up toys and seeing what like collector items you're gonna get it and Dollar Tree has so many to choose from I wanted to do something not as girly today cuz I can tend to focus on all of the girly or pink things I'm just naturally drawn to it because I think I'm very girly in a way and my daughter my niece so I'm just constantly surrounded by girls that are very girly so I wanted to get something a little bit different and this is Doctor Strange so it's a marvel collection it tells you all of the characters you could practically collect so I am going to open this up and work I've got four by the way to choose from and usually these bags should come with an easy way to open them but I might need that's kind of that's kind of bizarre I feel like this is kind of like a waste of material and oh it's what's-his-face wait no I don't I don't know Doctor Strange so I don't know who that is we got um nightmare oh sorry nightmare was over here so his name is nightmare and that cool like what a cool little collector staying a dollar I don't know dr. Strange's but I'm sure hey let's see what we're getting again oh we got someone else that's always a good thing and we got Baron Mordor and my I'm not something I'm not saying it right am i baron more more dough more dough yeah it's really freaking cool if they have this in Star Wars I would lose my ever-loving mind or like Harry Potter I I would have bought every single one of these pockets let's see it's always fun to just kind of see what you get and sweep your up see if you get a dupe here's another one what's-his-face and the last one I leave it for but if you really like me doing stuff like this let me know and I'll just I'll buy a little bit more in my next shop oh we got someone else we got oh we got Dormammu y'all Dormammu Dormammu doorman little door somebody we got somebody that looks like they are really pissed off this item is new I've never seen it at Dollar Tree before it is part of their garden section and is sintra Nilla incense sticks I said I said what I'm there look how tall they are you just put them in like a potted plant or maybe even on the ground and I think it's sent Rinella so it should ward off the mosquitoes and you know in the south we got those we got those unfortunately great for use on patios porches decks and more and it's for outdoor use only so f.y.i oh I thought it said keep away from lightning one it's that's not even close this is what it said remove all packaging before lighting yet somehow I read keep away from lightning okay meanwhile then I found wait I only got one oh I guess I did I found the cutest scarf and it just gives me that sailor chic look I'm gonna say the word again Martha's Vineyard I said that and one of my last halls where I showed you guys that really beautiful tote white this is by far my favorite scarf ever that I've ever found at Dollar Tree and it's so summery and pretty I don't know something out of one of those fancy catalogs I love it I'm gonna put this on a straw beach bag that's what I do with mine I put them on my I tie them to a beach bag okay what is this oh this is fourth of July socks but they're hilarious this one's not hilarious it's just cute well USA flag then you have this one that looks like Uncle Sam's hats when you put your feet together not funny this one is hilarious it's uncle Uncle Sam himself look at him are you in quarantine they've been starting to put out Mother's Day stuff so if you didn't catch my last Dollar Tree haul on Monday I posted a a haul that had a lot of stuff that they were my dollar trees they were starting to put out like in a display section of like Mother's Day goodies and gifts and things they've been also putting out the handmade cards and I only got two most of them had like the rubber band still around it and I was just at that point I was trying to check out and I just was like uh next time so but I just grabbed the two that spoke to me the most I really love this one I don't think they're collection this year from like sweeping my eyes quickly was better than last year's but this one's cute too little mama bear and then okay so this I'm not gonna talk about this for too long let me tell you this is a foldable hex key and what's interesting about this and I don't know I don't I feel like maybe this is what I was trying to find at Lowe's but this is a really long snooze fest of a story but when I was moving out of the last house to here I couldn't get my daughter's bed apart and I and her bed was made by IKEA and IKEA has these like hex like tools that they use they can put your stuff together you don't really use like a Philips or screwdriver thing or things like that to build IKEA furniture so I went into Lowe's trying to find this tool and they didn't have it and or maybe the guy that I was explaining it to there was like no we don't carry that so I don't know maybe it was just a communication issue but they have these at Dollar Tree and they actually come in handy for a lot of stuff and not only IKEA but as I've been ordering furniture from like Ashley's furniture and Wayfair they all use the same like concept of the hex key to build furniture so and sometimes you know when you get those hex keys from like from one box of furniture that you order another they sent they tend to you lose them basically and that Dollar Tree you get all of these different sizes that they show right there so I just got that at my little spoon collection okay next up in the graduation aisle they put out these scattered glitter hearts but what I really liked about them was that they kind of give me like a New Year's Eve feel I know it's April but sometimes if especially if you're like me and you're really into decorating you're really into holidays I always try to look at things from a holiday perspective because they don't keep things out all year round they keep things out for seasons in a specific period of time so sometimes so I've I've been forcing myself to kind of just look at things and think what other holiday could I possibly use that for and maybe store it away and I thought of I definitely thought of New Year's Eve for those right you okay I've actually hauled these before these adorable Lego juice cups but they the first round they were like the primary colors I believe and then when I went back and I and this was years ago I think a year at least two years ago maybe even more but now they have them in the pretty girly colors and I was just like okay yes love that oh I got some more of those mystery boxes this one's weird not weird I've never seen it before Lost kitties I don't I don't know what it what lost kitties are they all what they should always typically give you a little booklet so that you can keep up with your collection oh my gosh Oh what what is this am I supposed to obey an apolog is that Plato is the kitty inside the play-doh oh I'm not playing with this oh no I think the kitty lost Kitty's there look if that's supposed to be a litter box that's I'm not down with that oh my can miss Erin I'm sorry but I'm not I'm not even going to open that up on camera today you know no no ma'am we're not doing we're not doing that I needed a moment I needed to get up and walk that off cuz I don't know what just happened it's very interesting it's very interesting concept I feel like kids would eat this up but but I not for me but you know I'm also not ten years old so it's not for me but anyway okay the very last item and I wanted to get this because I just thought of a really cute idea and I wanted to share it with you guys so it's three snack bowls of Nemo but what I thought was cute is how fun would it be to get like snack bowls like this with a Nemo theme and then you know get some candy pop some popcorn pretzels all of that and do like a family movie night of Disney movies or even just Nemo you know just to kind of like have a cute little theme when you're watching movies with the family just to kind of spice it up you know maybe change things up and do things differently because we're all in the house and we're it's just I'm sure a lot of things are maybe repetitive for some and just try to find a new way new fresh way of doing something and it would be fun to do like a movie marathon watch party and maybe do like a little Nemo theme and you know they've got a little cute decorations at Dollar Tree and like snap it up get some candy and there you go it's pretty much it for today's haul I'm not sure I'm gonna recover from this although I'd be interested to see my niece's reaction to digging through this and finding a toy\n"