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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
Guides
Holiday Gift Guide: The Techie

At their core, every guy is a techie. Neat electronics have been the go-to gifts for guys for ages, with good reason. It's also a gift you can screw up easily by getting a piece of outdated tech. Here are our picks for The Techie, aka every guy. This post…

By Mike Newman
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Features
Valentine’s Gifts For Her: My Modern Met

Buying Valentine's gifts is difficult. Chocolates, flowers, and stuffed bears holding little hearts are boring, but trying to get creative can backfire if you don't come up with something good. This year, we turned to some of our favorite bloggers (who happen to be female) to get some suggestions on…

By Mike Newman
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Valentine’s Gifts For Her: Wantist

Buying Valentine's gifts is difficult. Chocolates, flowers, and stuffed bears holding little hearts are boring, but trying to get creative can backfire if you don't come up with something good. This year, we turned to some of our favorite bloggers (who happen to be female) to get some suggestions on…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
Mixtape: Holiday Music That Doesn’t Suck

We love the holidays. Giving gifts, getting gifts and getting smashed with Gramma so she can tell the same stories over and over always brings a smile to our faces. We’re even ok almost having a heart attack in January when the credit card bills start piling up like those…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gear
13 Gifts For Dad That Don’t Suck

Any (or all) of these could be true: Your dad explained screwdrivers to you using some easy to remember saying about a girl named Lucy. He taught you how to ride a bike and how to drive a car. Showed you how to throw a ball. Made mustaches look cool.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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