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A visit to Ax-Man Surplus

June 22, 2024 Nathaniel Barber

I just love this weird-ass surplus store slash curiosity shop.

I can’t imagine needing anything and going to Ax-Man to find it. It’s not that kind of store.

Ax-Man is not the kind of place you go to buy the thing you need. It’s the kind of place you go to discover all the oddball things you suddenly need to change your life. Or, at least, the equipment you need to savagely run your life off the rails.

View fullsize A collage with children, some alive and some dead.
View fullsize A flying thing hanging from the ceiling
View fullsize Get your knobs here
View fullsize Can these dual USB auto chargers save Brangelina's marriage?!
View fullsize Sales shark and jesus fish I don't even know what the eff this thing is but I love it.
View fullsize Do they blow up into funny shapes? Yes, if round is funny.
View fullsize This is the last thing you see coming at you from the sky in the great trash war.
View fullsize A lady never tells.
View fullsize Artificial sneezers!
View fullsize Mental note for...later.
View fullsize I didn't need an oven glove. Then I saw this sign and I bought four pairs.
View fullsize For your ectomorph boo.
View fullsize Hats for rats are actually coffee filters but hey, hat for rats.
View fullsize I don't know what this means, but I know I love it. I'll take two.
View fullsize Want to buy a white belt? Here are several. Buy them.
View fullsize Ax-Man is not an acquired taste. It's instantly delicious. And just as instantly regrettable. But then it's delicious again a couple years later, so it's okay.
View fullsize Shreding all the cash and then selling it back to people is a helluva flex.
View fullsize Buy someones hot, moist breath. Or buy a bag and fill it with your own hot, moist breath, and give it to someone you never want to hear from ever again.
View fullsize Fuck Chuck. That is all.
View fullsize Maybe you should have thought twice before inventing the internets.

I hope whoever is running this shit show is neck deep in dollars because it is a Saint Paul institution. Without it, we will truly be lost forever.

In Photo Diary Tags Ax-Man Surplus, Curiosity, Nonsense, Hot breath, hats for rats, Where to buy bodybags
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