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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
Entertainment
23 Soundtracks That Define Cool

A great soundtrack is more than just a collection of great songs. A great soundtrack pulls a story along while somehow effortlessly blending into the background. The right one can help define a movie; a terrible one can ruin an otherwise decent film. A great one can even stand on…

By Mike Newman
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Features
The Coolest Places You Can Visit On Google Street View

The Coolest Places You Can Visit On Google Street View You could shell out the cash for a plane ticket and a hotel near any of these places, but it would be far cheaper to take a virtual tour with Google. Thanks to Street View and Business View, some pretty…

By Mike Newman
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Features
50 Under $50: Fifty Affordable Gifts We’d Love to Receive This Valentine’s Day

For as much as we complain about trying to find the right Valentine’s Day gift for her, it must be far more challenging for her to find the right one for us. We mean, at least we have the classic flowers and candies if all else fails. This year, we…

By Mike Newman
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Unique New Year’s Celebrations From Around the World

It’s official: We’re finally in the home stretch of 2016, and if we’re being honest with you, we can’t wait for it to be over. Shit got weird, and not in the good way, so we’re looking to send this year off as soon as possible. The question becomes, how?…

By Maxwell Barna
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This Ornament Tells You When Someone Opens Your Gift

Half the fun of the holidays is getting the perfect gift for someone else. You want to show how well you know the person and how important they are to you, so you make sure you listen all year for ideas, do your research, and pick out something you know…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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