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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
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
Articles
12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets

The game of chess is a timeless classic, challenging players from 6th century India all the way up to today. We can’t tell you how much it’s changed in those 1500 years, but we can tell you modern people are putting their own spin on it. They’re changing up pieces,…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Holiday
The 14 Best Travel Gifts You Can Give This Holiday

For the guy who’s flying in for Christmas before catching a red-eye overseas, consider something from this list. Everything below was hand-selected with the traveler in mind, the guy who probably bought your gift with airline miles. If you have someone like that on your list, hop to it and…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Entertainment
‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ Holiday Display

If you're like us, you grew up in a house that turned to tchotchke central during the holidays. Large boxes came out in the morning and then later that afternoon your home looked like it was a museum. We won't advocate for that level of decoration, but we can't not…

By Mike Newman
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Clothing
Wear This: Holiday Weekend

It's cold and the leaves are falling. Holiday shopping has begun. Once Thanksgiving hits, it's full-on holiday music, Christmas lights and end of year celebrations. But right now, it's all about turkey day. You need a comfy outfit with some room to grow while still looking put together enough to…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Food
Get Into the Holiday Spirit With a Booze-Filled Advent Calendar

We look forward to the holidays as much an anyone else, but we prefer to start celebrating at the beginning of December with a Drinks by the Dram Advent Calendar from Master of Malt. Every year Drinks by the Dram releases booze-filled advent calendars with two dozen different spirits that…

By Cooper Fleishman
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