It is like they are "alive".... I know.

You really should start with just ONE.

I rarely use more than one anyway. These guys are strong and penetrate 6in. You don't need them in a row. Nail the right nerve and one is plenty.

Twisting to remove from the stack is best...twist or slide. The coating helps...it is far worse with uncoated ones like I have.

I also keep a bit of the tape to overlap the diameter of the magnet and use that as a handle. Twice folded on itself, it works quite well.

The websites on Ebay all have warnings on them about how to handle the strong aspect of them. I have mine in a little plastic box, and once during the night it grabbed a paper clip you know the type with handles, and snapped it in the night across the table and woke me up! Keeping them in the sock drawer is handy, since metal is not normally in that drawer. They are safely away from other things, and computers, etc.

You know where I just saw on TV another odd use for these strong magnets? The show Meteorite Men, on the Science Channel? They put 3 of those neodymiums on the head of their dirt pick, and when a piece of meteorite is in the ground it jumps up and sticks to the magnets. They showed a closeup of this process many times on the shows. I love that show...the guys are funny and the situations funky and in the end they take the ones they found and get scientific analysis and evaluation. I always get thirsty watching them suffer out in the desert! LOL