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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
Black Book Additions

Any Black Book worth it's salt is updated on a continual basis and ours is no different. Instead of adding phone numbers or debts, we're adding web addresses and places to shop. Check out The Black Book to see the newest additions to the greatest men's shopping directory on the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gifts
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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Fashion
2010 Holiday Gift Guide

It's just about time to start shopping for Christmas / Hanukkah / other holiday presents. More importantly, it's the time when people start shopping for gifts for you. The holidays are supposed to be all about the spirit of giving, but we'd be lying if we didn't say we liked…

By Cooper Fleishman
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