Your heart is broken, and no regular nude-colored first aid will do. Fingers crossed that colorful Keep Calm and Carry On bandages are capable of healing psychological boo-boos, too.
Available at aandgmerch.com, $8.
Now that you’re single, you have time to mull things over — and construct elaborately detailed revenge fantasies involving this voodoo-like doll.
Available at clickshop.com, $14.
While your ex spoils the healing process with his/her right to exist, drink your bitterness away with interesting digestives made with ingredients like clove, cardamom, galangal, and papaya.
Available by e-mail order (bittersoldmen@gmail.com; $5 each).
We love ladies of all shapes and sizes, but a trompe l’oeil scale serves as a reminder: Bon-bons are nice, but making someone who dumped you via text beg for your forgiveness is nicer.
Available at uncommongoods.com, $95.
Liz Lemon made it a catchphrase, but the applications are surprisingly practical. Whether you’re in a relationship or not, take solace in the fact that you aren’t wasting time (we hope) with a deadbeat.
Available at borders.com, $13.
Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands.
Available at cocodemerusa.com, $160.
San Fran-based Silvi Alcivar will write a poem addressing anything or anyone you wish. Ask for a sonnet rhapsodizing your best qualities, and then hand copies out to potential lovers.
Available at thepoetrystore.net, $10 and up.
Crank up Beyoncé’s ode to the unattached, and then slip this onto your left ring finger for emphasis.
Available at boticca.com, $135.
Refute the idea of being a kept woman by saving a romantic scent for yourself.
Available at mcmcfragrances.com, $110.
Left a big love in the Big Apple? Can’t cross the Texas state line without tearing up? Show how busted up you are over your ex (or hometown politics) with a tongue-in-cheek necklace.
Available at courtjewelry.com, $275.
Take a swing at one of Able and Baker’s cathartic pinatas, made to resemble the no-good lying liar in your life. The San Francisco-based design studio will send them to closure-seekers all over the country.
Available by e-mail order (info@ableandbakerstudio.com).
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