Gifts at Pourquoi Pas
Pourquoi Pas is a popular gift shop right in the heart of downtown in Place du Cathedrale. The shop is quite colorful with it’s fun ideas for parties, the kitchen, kids, girls and guys and whatever.
1– Sparrow Hook $18.95 www.dcigift.com is the cutest thing I’ve seen for hanging clothes in your hall, bathroom or bedroom. It looks like a sparrow sitting on a tree branch and you just hang your clothes on the branch end.
2 – Nature Calls Animal Sound Clock $25 It’s way calmer to transition from sleep to the day when hearing the sound of a rooster, cat, dog, monkey, owl, etc.
3 – Beer Bands $9.50 www.silocollection.com Just in time for the H1N1 scare. You can slip these over your beer bottle and it identifies whose is whose so no one drinks out of the wrong bottle.
4 – USB Hubman $25 www.kikkerland.com Use this human-like hub for speakers, cameras, mice, keyboards, drives.
5 – Ouch $12.95 www.worldwidefred.com is a voodoo doll toothpick holder. It sure is weird to pull toothpicks out of him for your hors d’ouevres but even weirder putting them in.
6 – Sniff $2 www.sniff.tv are multi colored tissues packs with designs of hula girls, animals, wild patterns designs. Sure makes you smile a bit if you have the sniffles
7 – Steady Eddie Person Pizza Cutter $9.95 www.antevanilla.com Koziol started the craze of turning kitchen gadgets into cute colorful designs. This company does it too.
8 – Banana Guard $6.95 www. bananaguard.com No more mushy bananas or ones with with black spots from bumping on the way to work. This is made in Canada
9 – Cheeky Children’s Cutlery $19.95 www.maxwellandwilliams.com For little hands, and fun meals, there is a person sitting on each piece of cutlery and these same people can stand on the table for entertainment, or removed and played with while you eat. Cutlery can be used without them as the kids get older.
10 – Magic top ‘n shorts $24.95 www.magictopnshorts.com Perfect for a traveling gift or stocking stuffer. Just drop in water and the outfit grows to your size
11 – Purse Caddy $9.95 Don’t lose your holiday money with your purse over the back of your chair or on the foor. Hang your purse on restaurant table in front of you. This one folds up to the size of a toony.
12 – Reindeer Shower Cap $$9.95 www.npw.co.uk You always need one ridiculous item that says Christmas and this is it.
13 – Shopper Stopper pills $4.50 www.crazycures.com These colorful bottles are made to cure all sorts of imagined illnesses. This one is perfect for the holidays as it cures shopaholism It’s made in Canada.
Pourquoi Pas
Location: Place du Cathedrale
625 Ste-Catherine St ouest
Tel: 514-524-2124
