SuLiao Magnetic 1 Minute Hourglass Sand Timer

very neat

Product: SuLiao Magnetic Hourglass 5 Minute Sand TimerPros: Looks nice, magnetic sand makes interesting shapes for the first minute or so.Cons: Continually clogs up, so it's useless as a timer.Would I buy it again? No.I bought this as a gift to use as a tea timer, but it's unusable for any purpose. Sometimes the sand stops after a few seconds. Maybe the granules are too large or the magnetic sand has a tendency to clump. Very disappointing.

Great

Only about half the sand goes to the bottom, the rest has to forced down

Bought for my college girl and she loves it sitting on her desk. Helps calm her anxiety.

Bought as a gift. Exactly as pictured and described.

I did not purchase this for decoration which it would have done nicely. I needed a timer. It was constantly getting clogged and never once worked as a three minute timer. I returned it because I needed a three minute timer.

Con: The 5 minute hourglass/version has too much sand and the hole is too narrow so the sand gets stuck and frequently stops mid timer (about 2-3 minutes in and sometimes again after that). It'll resume if you tap the glass to shake the iron filings, but obviously that defeats the purpose.Con: Also, the magnet is (probably) the same size as the shorter timers so it's not nearly strong enough to have any effect on 5 minutes worth of iron filings, there's just too much, so when the timer's done it's just a flat pile of dust.Pros: It's still a very nice decoration piece for a modest price, and the iron filings do show the "spiky" effect in the first 2 minutes or so (but after that it overwhelms the magnet). As simply a decoration piece it does stand out, it just doesn't work as advertised.TLDR: As a timer it fails, get the 2 minute version or shorter so it doesn't stop multiple times. As a decoration piece it stands out and looks interesting, that is until someone turns it over and the sand stops falling halfway...