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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
By Cool Material
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A Women’s Gift Guide: From Girlhood to Grandmas

By Kaitlyn Rosati
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

By Cool Material
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My Girlfriend Loves Design, So I Got Her an Arc Alarm Clock from NanuElectrics

Useful can be beautiful. The best gifts are.

By Johnny Motley
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Rapping Paper

As guys, we don’t know the first thing about presenting a gift.  We usually load up on Dollar Store gift bags, jam a few pieces of crumpled up tissue paper in there along with the gift and hand it over like we were some kindergartner offering up a piece of…

By Mike Newman
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Food
Happy Steak and BJ Day

Here’s a little secret:  No guy likes Valentine’s Day.  Some will say they think it’s sweet or they like to show their wife/girlfriend how much they mean, well you know what – bullshit.  With all the stress we put on ourselves to do something romantic, we’re pretty sure the biggest…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Icon Cards

“Icon” is not a term we toss around lightly.  To get labeled as such you’re going to have to have an edge about you, a standout-ness.  That’s why, while there are many kick-ass dudes we admire, there are few “icons.”  The three pictured on these Icon Cards from Oi Polloi…

By Mike Newman
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Accessories
2011 Moleskine Desk Calendar

Moleskine is getting to the point that it's the ubiquitous notebook. The Scotch tape or Kleenex of the written word world. We're fine with that, but we need constant visible reminders about the important things happening today because we can't be bothered to take said ubiquitous notebook out of our…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Douchebag Citation

We all know them, and unfortunately we all encounter them on an all-too-frequent basis. Douchebags.  No, not literal douchebags...if you're encountering the actual feminine hygiene product frequently, you are either a gynecologist or a creep. We're talking about the turds that pop their collars, park like assholes, and generally make you lose faith in humanity's…

By Wylie Overstreet
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