by Christina Refford | Father's Day Gifts, For the Menfolk
If you judged dads by the Father’s Day cards in the racks, it would seem like all dads ever do is golf, drink beer, and hog the TV remote. But the dads in our lives are so much more interesting and nuanced which is why we love turning to Uncommon Goods for...
by Cool Mom Staff | Mother's Day Gifts
If you haven’t secured the perfect Mother’s Day gift yet, rest easy. Okay, not that easy, because it’s literally just a few days away. But if you hustle, we can still help you out with these awesome last-minute gifts that don’t feel improvised...
by Christina Refford | Valentine's Day
Valentine’s gifts for best friends isn’t always something that comes top of mind when we’re shopping for gifts for the kids or our significant other. But c’mon — could we have gotten through the past couple of years without all the...
by Christina Refford | Holiday Picks
The span between shopping for a preschooler and finding a holiday gift for a college student seems impossibly short, now that many of us have hit that stage of parenting. But what remains is the desire to make the holidays really special for our kids. And since even...
by Liz Gumbinner | Holiday Picks, Kitchen + Dining, Style + Beauty
Last year I browsed Oprah’s Favorite Things List of holiday gifts so thoroughly that I thought — whoa, what if I share my favorites from her favorites? So I did. And you liked them! So much so, it was hard to even get your hands on some of them. Like those...
by Liz Gumbinner | Beauty + Cosmetics, Health, Fitness + Wellbeing, Living
We first started this site with the mission of discovering cool things — particularly from small businesses and women-run companies — and share them with you all. While we’ve become popular for our gift guides to suit every budget, our tech tips, our...
by Liz Gumbinner | Father's Day Gifts
The past few Father’s Days that we’ve celebrated, it seems even dads who like the more frivolous stuff are seeing the joy in practical Father’s Day gifts. Whether it helps him around the house, master the WAH thing (for the short-term or the...
by Christina Refford | Food + Recipes, Holiday Picks
Happy New Year! The Year of the Tiger begins tomorrow and, just in time, we’ve found L.A. Burdick’s box of handcrafted chocolate tigers created to kick off the start of the Chinese New Year. Way more scrumptious than fierce, I think they’d make a...
by Liz Gumbinner | Holiday Picks, Living, Style + Beauty
Oprah’s Favorite Things list rarely steers me wrong. Her exclusive-to-Amazon gift finder is how I found the Trufflin’ Sriracha and Ranch Gift Set last year, which I bought for myself, then my parents, then re-ordered again for myself because whoa. (Oh...
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