Over at Jordon Cooper Outfitters I put together a Father’s Day Gift Guide. It includes a series of products that have been highlighted over the last several months plus all of the reasons your father will love them. Speaking of Jordon Cooper Outfitters, some of you have asked how the site is going. The traffic [...]
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Mother’s Day Gift Roundup
Wendy put together a Mother’s Day gift guide over at Jordon Cooper Outfitters. If you are looking for something for your mom and she is an outdoor enthusiast, check out her list.
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One of the things that I enjoyed this fall was creating the series of Christmas Gift Idea posts that so many people criticized this fall. While there was some negative comments, the response was overwhelmingly positive from complete strangers who really enjoyed those features and said it made Christmas shopping a lot easier on them. [...]
Christmas Gift Guide for the Road Warrior
I don’t travel very much anymore but the routine of leaving home, boarding planes, bad coffee, bad sleep, and doing it all over again had me thinking about the best tools for the road warriors on your Christmas shopping list. If this list doesn’t do anything for you, feel free to check out my other [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: Gifts for Really Smart People
You need a gift for someone smart, someone who wants to know about everything – what happened, how it works, why it all got started. Fortunately, the globally curious have a lot of hobbies which makes them kind of easy to shop for, even if you don’t always remember to sleep and eat. Below are [...]
Selling out for the holidays
I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides. It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are created in. Wendy [...]
Christmas Gift Guide for the Homeless
This one is pretty close to my heart. At work I get to buy the Christmas gifts for the guys at the Salvation Army Community Centre and I have a lot of fun doing it. Last year I got them nice duffle bags and a watch/wallet gift set. We also got a big donation of [...]
Christmas Gifts Ideas for Boys Under Two Year of Age
Who would have thought that Oliver would be so hard to shop for. I don’t remember Mark being so hard to shop for when he was a year and a half but then I realized that so many things I wanted to get Oliver are still sitting in storage because we already bought them for [...]
2009 Christmas Gift Ideas
Since many of you are starting your Christmas shopping today (they call it Black Friday for a reason), I thought I would post together my Christmas gift ideas here and hopefully you find what you are looking for. Good luck out there, you are going to need it. Christmas Gift Guide for the Outdoorsman (and [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: The Outdoorsman
In case you are shopping for the great outdoorsman, here are a list of suggestions for those who often prefer to outdoors rather than inside. Check out the Christmas gift ideas category if you are looking for other Christmas Gift Guides. Straight from the Leftorium, the MEC Left Handed Slingpack. Wendy has had a slingpack [...]
Christmas Gift Guide: My Wishlist (Christmas ideas for a father of two great kids)
I do most of the Christmas shopping in our house which leaves Wendy to get my gift. I generally update my Amazon.com wishlist and use their universal wish list button to create on central wish list for her and Mark. Our goal is to be done Christmas shopping by December 1st every year and we [...]
Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)
Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments. Wendy asked me to put together a short gift guide for you clueless husbands out there who are like one guy I know who bought his wife a watch every Christmas for over a [...]
Christmas Gift Guide for the Sports Fan
Readers of this blog know that I am a big sports fan. As a sports fan I know how hard we can be to shop for and along that line I have some suggestions on what to get for your favorite sports fan. Just a tip. If you don’t know what his or her favorite [...]
