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Guides

Our curated collection of buying guides tailored for gifting, hobbies and beyond.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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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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The Best Father’s Day Gifts, From Drinks To Watches and Everything In Between

Father's Day gifts can easily veer toward stale, last-minute picks that are hastily wrapped. Ties and shaving kits have their place, but they're cliché and overdone when it comes to gifting. If you really want to give your dad something that won't be forgotten by the time the next Father's…

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The Only Wedding Gift Guide You Need

Finding the right wedding gift seems like a straightforward proposition. Wedding registries exist for a reason, after all. But those standard gifts suggestions thrown onto a registry can seem impersonal--the type of things more likely to be returned for store credit or cash (there's even a site that let's people…

By Nickolaus Hines
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The Best Groomsmen Gifts You Can Buy

Groomsmen don't often get as much attention as bridesmaids. The most famous groomsmen in popular culture are known for loosing the groom on the rooftop of a Vegas hotel after getting everyone into a little too much fun the night before, after all. But in real life, groomsmen are the…

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Wedding Essentials: The Best Gifts To Buy the Groom

Many of the things that you'll find on a wedding registry are for the whole home. And sure, the groom will get to enjoy those things as well. But there's a chance (some might even say a high chance) that the typical home good and bed sheets and plates aren't…

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The Best Wedding Gifts For the Couple (That You Won’t Find on Every Registry)

Maybe the wedding you're attending has a well-thought out registry, but everything is already claimed. Or maybe the couple went with no registry at all so you're flying blind. And then there are the couples who you know just threw a registry together at the last minute out of a…

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