Most people are familiar with classic promotional products such as pens, bags, and calendars. However, these products are not the only promotional products available for use. There are even some very strange products, likely products you’ve never heard of, that are likely to give your customers a laugh, help them conserve resources or help them relax in addition to serving their original intended purpose of being useful to the customer and advertising your business.

One such unusual product is crystal maracas.  These would be a good novelty item for a Mexican restaurant to have as part of a giveaway. Their noise would bring additional attention to them and customers would enjoy a chance to goof around and have fun with your promotional item.

Credit card and bookmark magnifiers are a seldom heard of item that is useful in two ways: magnifying small text and keeping customers’ places in books that they’re reading. Though they aren’t a common item they certainly hold their own in the promotional product world and are a good choice if you want to give something less traditional that catches attention.

Hand-held massagers are certainly less common but would be very much appreciated by the hard-working customer that needs to relax after a hard day or during a lunch break. Guaranteed to relax tight muscles and advertise your business at the same time, promotional hand-held massagers are another sound, uncommon choice for a promotional product.

Something that is sure to garner many laughs from coworkers or housemates is the promotional anti-stress hand grenade. A soft and squishy hand grenade is the perfect item for your customer to take their stress out on and to avoid unleashing their stress on their peers. The face that this stress ball is in the form of a grenade is what really sets this product apart from the usually happy and cheery stress balls, making this a very amusing and unusual promotional product.

Sewing kits are an extremely useful and uncommon promotional item. If your customer rips their shirt or pants in the office or on the run, all they have to do is whip out your promotional, compact sewing kit to save them a trip home to change or a publicly embarrassing moment. These are very helpful promotional items which your customer will appreciate in a pinch.

Another unusual item is the promotional shower timer. An eco-friendly choice, this shower timer has the ability to let you know when you have spent 4 minutes in the shower so that you’ll know when you’ve used a certain amount of water, saving energy and water. This is a good choice for especially eco-friendly establishments to further their mission to be ‘green’.

Whether you choose the crystal maracas, credit card magnifiers, hand-held massagers, anti-stress hand grenade, sewing kit or eco-friendly shower timers, your customers will be intrigued by the novelty of your promotional product and you will receive even more return of your investment from your promotional product. Not only will your product be useful, but it may bring laughs or help your customers deal with stress.