Buyer's Guides

My dudes, my ladies, you've finally found it. A wrap-up of 2023 highlights that won't leave you feeling depressed and despondent. My collection of Dude's must see products of 2023 is full of fun and frivolity. Genitalia-flavored kettle chips and a goose-shaped portable men's urinal to make you laugh...

2023 Holiday Gift Guide: Last-Minute Gifts

Last-minute gifts are for all the lasts in your life. The last people on your list, or the last people you realize you gotta buy a gift for. Your own tendency to leave all gift-buying to the 11th hour. Your last-ditch...

If you're tired of the monotony (and irony) of filling your Christmas socks with tube socks, ankle socks, and even more Christmas socks, then these nifty and different stocking stuffers will be right up your alley down your chimney...

2023 Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the Great Outdoors

What's great about online shopping is that you no longer have to go outdoors yourself to buy gifts for others to go outdoors. And I don't have to go outdoors to find them for you...

I wouldn't call these gifts for $25 or less cheap gifts, both because I think their quality is pretty decent, and because, what the hey, inflation?! When did $25 become cheap? Oh, and - side rant - when did twenty-five-frikkin'-dollars become the price of: a 3-pack of socks; a 2-pound bag of cat...

2023 Holiday Gift Guide: Dude-Approved Gifts for Mom

Gifts for Mom. Where do I even begin? I say that because, if you were here yesterday, you know this dude presented his qualifications as the GOAT for gift ideas for Dad, despite not being or having much interaction with...

As someone who neither is a dad, nor spends a lot of time in the presence of dads, you might think the Dude isn't the best source of ideas for gifts for Dad. But you would be incorrect. Because if you know anything about the Dude, you know the Dude is the best source of ideas for gifts for everything...

17 Restorative Gifts for Health & Wellness Enthusiasts

These 17 restorative gifts are for the health and wellness enthusiasts on your list who juice, blend, cup, condition, detox, soak, plunge, and ommmmm their way through life. The ones who always suggest you try meditation...

I wouldn't go so far to call myself a design enthusiast, but I do like me some cool shizit, and I think you will see that level of admiration reflected in this 2023 holiday roundup of standout gifts to wow design enthusiasts. By which I mean, it's possible works such as the Shargeek see-through portable...

16 Unconventional Gifts No One Else Will Get Them

These 16 unconventional gifts are so described because they're unique. Standout. Awesome. They're gifts no one else will get them because no one else is as insightful, cool, and exhaustive in their searching as you are...

I know I'm calling this holiday gift guide "Dude-approved" gifts for women, but I promise you, I swear on my mama's Gooey Butter Cake, and my wife, She-Ra: Princess of Power's Sword of Protection, that I have not just made a collection of lingerie, sex toys, and jerky. (What?! It's hot when ladies...

2023 Holiday Gift Guide: Dude-Approved Gifts for Men

It should go without saying that since The Dude is curating this collection of 2023 holiday gifts for men, the gifts included in the collection are Dude-approved. But nothing goes without saying anymore, so let me be...

Dirty Santa, your day has come. Yesterday I showed you a fine collection of Secret Santa gifts, and explained the concept of and motivation behind participating in that type of gift exchange. Today, things get even more fun, and a whole lot dirtier, with my roundup of offerings for a Dirty Santa...

2023 Holiday Gift Guide: Secret Santa Gifts Under $25

Secret Santa is the fun, wholesome, and wallet-friendly holiday gift exchange you participate in at your office, or that your family puts on for extended members, such as great aunts, third cousins, Uncle Eddies, fleeting...

Everything changes in October. The leaves. The late summer temperatures. Even your kid's face from Mini You to Spider-Man! Or Barbie! Or the Cocaine Bear! (Either in honor of Spooky Season, or because that's how they identify now.)...

Dude's Must See Products for September 2023

September 2023 was the month of Iron Mando, retractable vampire fangs, and the EZ-Nabber cat catcher. Put them all together, and your Halloween costume is set: Undead Hybrid Superhero Whose Alter Ego Works for Animal...

What is this faucet starter kit? This paw-pular basecamp headache relief? These meow-ty fine solar roller booster fans with a spry pipe and bushcraft security bar? Why, they are all Dude's must see products for August 2023...

16 Meow-ty Fine Cat Gifts for 2023

Cue the jingle, because I've got a Meow Mix of delights here for you. Meow-meow-meow-meow / meow-meow-meow-meow / meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow. That's 16 meows of the cat food commercial classic to represent...

These are 16 of the most paw-pular dog gifts for 2023 according to me. A dude who doesn't own a dog. But having been called a dog myself in the past, along with other canine-related terms, such as "butt sniffer," "drool machine," "lucky dog," and even "good boy," I think I'm more than qualified to...

Dude's Must See Products for July 2023

Here are some things that happened in July 2023: 1) The 4th of July; 2) My mama's basement flooded, costing her many thousands of dollars, and me many hours of furniture moving, to remediate; 3) My friend Cornelius lured...

A few years ago I wrote about 20 items I bought on Amazon and would buy 100 times again, providing you dudes and ladies with invaluable information on how to improve you own lives by purchasing a bunch of sh*t. And now, I'm back with more, baby! 15 more items I bought and would buy 100 times again...

Dude's Must See Products for June 2023

I'll always remember June 2023 as a month of deeply satisfying poos. I hope the same is true for you. But I must also give some credit to the Hammer Fist, the Accuser Ring, the Printed Body Flowers Swimsuit, and Beer...

The man, the myth, the dude, the DAD. Whether you're here to find a Father's Day gift for the spankin' new daddy of an infant, or the rickety bones of the old man who raised you into a gettin'-old man yourself, I've got 18 suggestions here that are sure to pass the paternity test...

Dude's Must See Products for May 2023

May had its way with an array of different products this year of 20 and 23. Aside from the 4th, which was with you in the form of a dozen-plus Baby Yoda gifts, there wasn't much of a theme to the month's most popular...