White Elephant; Yankee Swap; Dirty Santa. Whatever you want to call it, there’s a decent chance you’ll be attending some variation of a gag gift exchange in the next couple of weeks — an event that can be oddly stressful and strangely competitive. All eyes are locked...
As your relationship flourishes, so should your penchant for giving exceptional gifts. Unfortunately, though, some of us are just plain terrible at choosing suitable presents, no matter how much thought and effort we put into them. For anyone who falls into this category and needs help picking...
Every year it’s the same thing: You know you’ve got to get a gift for those difficult people on your Christmas list, but — despite the fact you’ve known them forever — you have no idea what to get. Generally, after weeks of trying to forget about...
The time has finally come: This Christmas will be the first I’ll be spending with my partner’s family, and not only her close family — every last aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandma, grandpa and that one weird lady who’s somehow lumped into the bunch, too. Which has...
Anyone who owns a shower curtain knows one thing for sure: It’s going to engulf them as soon as they turn the water on. This strange phenomenon is called the shower-curtain effect, and while there’s no conclusive explanation for why running water causes shower curtains to billow...
So you made the mistake of promising yourself that you’d at least attempt to eat healthy this Thanksgiving, and now there are several mountains of stuffing and a trough of turkey gravy situated directly in front of you. Your grandmother says, “Go ahead and dig in! You...
Nearly 30 percent of guys are regularly trimming their pubic hair, according to one of our surveys. In related news, the number of pubic hair-grooming injuries increased fivefold from 2002 to 2010, so it sounds like a few of us could use a lesson in wet shaving...
It’s tempting to zip through a shave without repeatedly rinsing the razor when you’re rushing out of the house in the morning. But you’re not doing your face any favors by doing so. According to Tyree Hicks, a man who’s shaved his head a grand total of...
“Nunchuck skills… bow-hunting skills… computer hacking skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.” Such is the wisdom of Napoleon Dynamite, all-time champion of all high-school nerds, and who, if he were a real-life person who’d graduated in the mid-2000s, would surely by now have mastered...
The decision to go to college is, for many, an obvious one: It’s just a thing you do after high school if you have any ambition to make a decent life for yourself. At least, that’s what your parents, teachers, counselors and the colleges themselves would have...
Men aren’t strangers to “moisturizing” their privates, even though, admittedly, silky-smooth skin isn’t normally the first thing on our minds when we reach for that lotion. But should we be moisturizing down there to keep our skin healthy? According to dermatologist Lisa Chipps, the answer is a...
Frequent shavers — especially those who share a bathroom with other frequent shavers — are no strangers to clogged pipes and slow-draining sinks. That daily barrage of thick whiskers and sticky lather might block even the widest of pipes given enough time, but you don’t have to...
