gifts for blokes – the blog about gifts for men

Valentine’s Day seems to roll around very quickly once the New Year hangover has worn off! There is barely enough time to relax from the Australia Day weekend before you have to start thinking about what gift you will buy that special bloke in your life. What might we recommend, you say? Have a look at [...]

Pencil.  Toothpick.  Envelope.  Stanley knife.  Teeth.  All perfectly suitable implements for a man to clean and trim his nails.  Well, not really.  Besides the fact that using these are pretty uncouth, none of them are actually that effective.  If you know a guy whose nails are in need of some serious TLC, a male manicure [...]

It doesn’t matter how much we swear we will never get into ‘that’ condition again, hangovers creep up on us after we have had a great time!  Clever people take precautions against getting one, but many blokes just have to deal with the aftermath as best they can. We’ve taken pity on the blokes and [...]

Pizza has been a favourite food for blokes for many years now.  It’s cheap, tasty and convenient, especially when you can just pick up the phone, order and have it delivered.  No cooking required. The only question is what toppings should you order?  What does your bloke like? The good old Aussie pizza has stood [...]

Well, Christmas and New Year have whirled by already, leaving me gasping for breath.  What a wonderful time we had, despite coming home to find our home flooded throughout after the storms.  6 inches of water doesn’t do the floors and furniture much good. What were our top selling gifts this Christmas?  Here is the [...]

Neckwear for men can be traced back to Chinese warriors around 200 B.C who wore knotted scarves around their neck.  However the ties in which we are more familiar are only fairly young in comparison. Neckties descend directly from the cravat, which were worn by the Croatian mercenaries in French service in the Thirty Years’ [...]

Was it really a year ago since we covered some of our blog highlights from 2010?  The year seems to have slid by faster than you can say “Gifts For Blokes” but boy did we have plenty of blokey fun along the way.  We introduced plenty of new gifts and even had a competition or [...]

Around this time of year there is copious amounts of festive cheer, family and friends and of course beer.  All of this festivity requires the equivalent in food and what better option for your celebratory feasts than the turkey?  It’s bigger and more impressive than a chicken, so it’ll feed more people.  You could leave [...]

Men usually get lumbered with doing the hard parts of Christmas decorating but do they really care about them? It can literally take hours, sometimes days, to put up all the Christmas decorations.  And if you are one of those households that puts up lights and statues of Santa and his reindeer on the front [...]

Boys will be boys, and blokes will be…well, blokes. We all know blokes love a bit of action, have a desire to be a super hero when they grow up and save the world from evil aliens.  They also need a bit of time out and stress relief from time to time. Our new, now [...]