1. Snakes – Light these babies on your driveway before your dad gets home.  The leftover black spots will hang around for years.
2. Tanks – Bad a$$ toys for bad a$$ boys.  You can blow them up with a sticky bomb (blackcat) once they’ve served their purpose.
3. Chickens – You know you bought em’.  I did too.  Great for sticky bomb disposal like the tanks.
4. Poppers – Just provide good clean fun.  I can fire them off with my teeth.  Ooh, look at me!
5. Saturn Missiles – Heads up in the crowd.  These little babies will run right up your tailpipe if you aren’t careful.  Also good material for sticky bomb disposal.
6. Lady Fingers – Quick fuse leads to numb fingers.  Ask me how I know.
7. Black Cats – The granddaddy of them all.  No firework kit is complete with out some of these.  Break them and light them.  Light a whole strand at once.  Build a black cat domino course.  Dump out the powder for some super explosives.  I miss my childhood.

Since this is Smokin’ Sevens, I am not allowed an 8th item.  However, when you run the blog, you run the show.  So as a compromise I present 7a) smoke bombs.  These are too fun to leave out.  Put a Lady Finger in the spent bomb cartridge and you have got yourself some more fun.

Other notables: sparklers, Roman candles, Thunder Bombs, M-80s, bottle rockets, concussion rounds, and strobe flashers.

Happy 4th of July everyone!  Have a safe holiday!  By the way, what have I missed?