shakea shakea!

Lots of great stuff from http://store.thebostonshaker.com :

$10 Your basic (unfinished for food saftey) cocktail muddler

$? A measuring cup that marks down to 1/4 oz. Many do 1/2, but they're conical, and so where's the half mark really? Engineering, call on line 3.

$6.5 Fee Brothers Orgeat Almond Cordial Syrup

$9 conical strainer for seeds and crystals and pulp and the dreaded, hateful ice crystals.

$5 Hawthorn strainer for shaken/stirred

$2.5 mid-sized bottles that seal - for those occasional syrups you make for some drinks

?$ A triple-stitched-reinfirced burlap bag for crushing ice. The burlap soaks up the water leaving clean ice and counter. Like this, but far less expensive. Maybe hand-made by you?

$4.5 the flat bottle opener - every bartender's back pocket is empty without one

$50 Many of these items are available as a kit, like this one. A couple of things I have (like jiggers), but then they become (clean) backups.

$9 An almost "Nick and Nora" -esque style champagne coupe, because what else do you serve prohibition era cocktails in? No, seriously. (actual Nick and Nora glass here)

$? Tiki mugs/cups from yard sales. Refuse to pay retail! (example, example 2)

$6 Pilsner glass - don't have room for many, but it is one of my favorite beers. All the better if it has a base to hang it by.

Oh, and the nicer "upper shelf" bottles to experiment with - 1/2 bottles or "mickies" can be a good way to taste-test them w/o going whole hog. Things like Cointreau that are supposed to be like triple-sec, but vastly superior. After testing home made grenadine (tastes like pomegranate!) to Rose's Grenadine (tastes like thin cough syrup!), I'm more willing to believe it.