'Rogue One' Set to Close Out 2016 With Third Straight Weekend at #1

The final weekend of 2016 features no new wide releases, but should feature plenty of tickets sold across the country with most everyone getting an extended weekend off work and school. Just as last weekend saw Christmas Day fall on Sunday for the first time since 2011, this weekend sees New Year's Day fall on Sunday, which means we'll be looking closely at the same weekends from 2011 and 2005 for some inkling as to how this weekend's holdovers should perform. That said, look for Rogue One:...

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If You Actually Want Your New Year's Resolutions to Stick — Do This, Not That

There's lots of scientific research on why setting goals on January 1 never really works out, and by March or April, we've all backslided into our old habits. Often, it's because goals aren't specific enough, or we haven't found the best way to track the work we've done. Or, perhaps we don't actually believe we can achieve that new version of ourselves for the long term.   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Make This: Wooden Mountain Key Rack

Anyone who has grown up near in the mountains knows what it means to see the ridgeline. Being tucked in nearby some exciting geological features has a comfort and appeal, and, of course, great views. It's safe, secure, constant. The mountains invite adventure, and simplicity. To honor my own local Cascade range, I built this simple key rack that takes a bit of that wild adventure and brings it home.   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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40 Ways to Be a Better Man in 2016

Let's Talk: What's the Best Gift You Received (or Gave) This Holiday?

 

Every holiday season, sites like ManMade spend all kinds of effort doing our best to help you find meaningful, quality gifts that you'll be proud to give someone. Or, at least, that you can add to your wishlist and let those in your life know you'd love to unwrap yourself.

But once the gift guides are published, we never seem to revisit those things until the following year. So, today, during this week after Christmas, I thought I'd ask — Did you get anything cool for Christmas? Or give something that particularly excites you that we should all know about?   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Spend New Year Eve's with Nick Offerman Pleasantly Staring You in The Face

Make This: DIY Stainless Steel Drinking Straws

I've been trying to up my host game lately, especially in the drinks department. Solid glassware, proper bar tools, and better presentation go a long way towards concocting a quality experience. That's why I was excited to come up with a great gift project for those that want to ditch the cheap plastic in their classy mixed drinks. These simple straws are hefty enough to really stand out as a stocking stuffer, or on their own as a solid holiday gift.   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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How to: Make This Portable Solar-Powered Tool Roll to Charge Your Everyday Needs

'Rogue One' to Top 'Sing', 'Passengers', 'Assassin's Creed' & Many More Over Christmas Weekend

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Make It Count: 6 Ways To Own This Holiday Season

This is the week. This is when we get to take a break, surround ourselves with friends and family, and eat plenty of great food. There really isn't much about this season I don't look forward to, and that's partly because I've learned to take a few steps to make sure it's a time we'll file away as a great memory for years to come.   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Check Out This Beautifully Restored Butcher's Cleaver (with Step-by-Step Guide)

As the adage about trash and treasure goes, this dude literally found this rust-covered meat cleaver in the trash and decided to restore it to what I'm sure is more than its former glory. If you look in these up-close "before" photos you'll see that the rust is so thick it looks almost like soft moss. Not so by the end...   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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14 Legitimately Good Stocking Stuffers for Men Who Like to Make Stuff

At this point in the season, the big gifts have already been decided. And if you're on your game, they're boxed, wrapped, and under the tree. But this week is all about the little bits: the practical things, the accessories, and the stocking stuffers. If you or someone on your list is a maker, DIYer, woodworker, tinkerer, or just a general creative type who likes to build and fix things, here's our list of quality stocking stuffers that are just as good as whatever's in that huge box with the bow on it.     … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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'Star Wars: Rogue One' Debuts With Over $290 Million Worldwide, 'Collateral Beauty' Struggles

Disney and Lucasfilm's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story top-lined the fourth largest December three-day weekend ever, delivering the third largest opening weekend of 2016, the twelfth largest opening weekend of all-time and became only the second December opener to debut over $100 million behind last year's monster opening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fellow new wide release this weekend, New Line's Collateral Beauty, didn't fare quite so well, delivering the worst wide opening for a Will...

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How to: The Simple, Easy Trick to Instantly Improve Your Hot Toddy

I have gone on record, in this publication and elsewhere, about why the hot toddy is the perfect cocktail to be sipping on in December. It's warm. It's spiced. And at least according to folk wisdom, it's good for your health should you come down with a wintertime sore throat.

But, if I am to be honest, the truth was, until this past Tuesday evening, I didn't actually like a hot toddy.  They were fine, but not delicious, and not I always found them to be, one, never hot enough to truly enjoy, and two, quite harsh. There was something about taking a healthy glug of bourbon and adding acidic lemon juice, then heating the whole thing up that brings out all the rough and grain-y flavors, and hid the tastier warm and spicy  barrel-aged notes that make whiskey, well, whiskey.  (You could make a hot toddy with rum or tequila, but why would you?)   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Holiday How-to: Make DIY Wooden Gift Tags from Scrap...in Under 15 Minutes

Giving gifts? It's the best, right? Not cheap plastic things, and certainly not gift cards. But thoughtful custom - and most of the time handmade gifts - that I know someone will enjoy for years to come. Take a look at our list of 50 gifts for men here, and gifts for women here.

Of course, the gift has to be wrapped in something special as well. So, why would I want to use lame paper gift tags from the discount store after all that work? Here is a simple project to make some name tags that are as thoughtful as the gift.   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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'Rogue One' Looks to Deliver One of the Top 15 Openings of All-Time

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It's Just So Much Better: Why You Should Drinking Homemade Egg Nog This Season

Ahh... egg nog, you creamy holiday treat. Sure the ugly sweaters and mistletoe are hallmark traditions during this festive season, but no holiday get-together is truly complete without a glass of something spiced in hand. This year, ditch the store-bought syrupy stuff, and make your own with just a few ingredients you already have in your kitchen.   

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Is this the Craziest Find at a Street Market... Ever?

DIY Gift Time: Make Beautiful Wooden Jewelry with Scrap and Simple Tools

The Connoisseur’s Guide to Making S’mores - Perfected

'Doctor Strange' & 'Fantastic Beasts' Lead November 2016 Box Office

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Seriously...This the Single Best Gift You Can Give to any DIYer, Maker, or Woodworker This Holiday

There are lots of ways to give gifts for the holidays. You can give in a way that simply checks a person off the list; that acknowledges that it's expected and therefore here's your Amazon giftcard, person I don't really know...or like. (Not recommended.) You can can give gifts that are elaborate, expensive, and make everything that also helped create that pile or wrapping paper look negligible. (Also not recommended.) Or you can source something that person didn't know existed, and legitimately surprise them. (Solid.) You could give them something you know they want, but wouldn't spend the money on for themselves. (Nice one.) Or, for many a practical-minded recipient, you can get them something that solves a need in their life, that comes in handy again and again. Literally, a gift that keeps on giving.

And if that so-named recipient happens to be a ManMade reader-type, we're calling it this year - this is the single. best. gift you can give anyone who likes to work with their hands this holiday season:   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Tackling a New Project Doesn't Have to Be Intimidating

The story goes like this: I'll wake up early...usually on a Saturday, or perhaps the Monday of a three day weekend. I'll pull on my work jeans — not the trashed, paint-splattered ones; just the wornout pair with the ever growing hole in the right knee I need to patch. I'll tie my workboots, and grab a few quick measurements before I head out the door. I always remember to put the tape measure in my pocket to take it with me. Today is project day. 

And I'll get to the home improvement store, and I'll wander the aisles, and I'll realize: I have no idea what I'm doing. I need more information, more measurements, more details. So, I'll desperately look up something on my phone, but the reception in the back of this huge concrete box isn't good enough. Plus, all those content farms have tricked the search engines so that the quality of information that comes up is poor, and so generic that I struggle to trust it. 

Plus, maybe I have the basic materials figured out, but what tools do I need? Do I have the right screws, or are all mine too short or have the wrong head type? And - for goodness sakes - do I need another pack of #2 Phillips driver bits? (Thankfully, that one is easy. Yes. The answer is always yes. )   

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'Moana' Threepeats at #1, 'La La Land' Opens Big in Limited Release

Disney's Moana was able to fend off Paramount's Office Christmas Party to secure a third weekend at #1 as all films prepare to make way next weekend for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and a tidal wave of anticipated holiday releases over the coming weeks. This weekend also saw a couple of major awards season contenders in Manchester by the Sea and La La Land deliver terrific performances along with the strong expansion of Focus' Nocturnal Animals as well as the not-so-strong expansion of Euro...

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Inspired: Some Favorite Quotes to Get You Moving (and Keep You Sane) This Weekend

If you hadn't noticed, I'm kinda into quotes as of late. (See my how-to for creating a wooden desktop inspiration holder) For some reason, this season, I'm touched by the power of keeping a few mantras in the front of my mind. It's been helpful as I meet new people, work to improve old relationships, and just get through the daily grind. Here are a few of my favorites this week. … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Weekend Project: How to Assemble a Brick Pizza Oven in a Day

Everyone loves pizza and brick oven pizza is about as good as it gets. The whole point of the brick oven is to bake pizzas between 800 and 1000 degrees giving you that crispy layer of thin char over an airy breaded crust. Much better than the paltry results you can get with a conventional oven that only runs about half that heat.      … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Reminder: KILZ Primer Giveaway Ends Soon!

Can 'Office Christmas Party' Topple 'Moana' for #1 at the Weekend Box Office?

Much like last week, this weekend will be even a little lighter at the weekend box office as the studios make ready for the holiday rush, which begins next weekend with the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and WB's Collateral Beauty. As for this weekend, the lone new wide release is Paramount's holiday-themed comedy Office Christmas Party, while EuropaCorp's Miss Sloane and Focus' Nocturnal Animals each expand, playing in 1,598 and 1,262 theaters respectively. Additionally, Lionsgat...

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Desktop Inspiration: How to Build Your Own Wooden Quote Holder

It's well known that what you focus on grows. That's why it's so important to keep the things that inspire us most close at hand. I have a few favorite words that I scatter throughout my office, journals, and walls, but this centralized space is perfect to keep that daily inspiration right where you need it.   

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Make It: Build a Stylish Copper, Wood, & Leather LED Desk Light

How a Decade Changed My Idea of Success

Ever thought about how a decade changes everything? A lot has changed, and I'm looking back at how that has made a huge difference in how I define success.  

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I turned 34 yesterday. Like many 30-something birthdays it came and went with a bit… Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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How to: Care for Your Leather Goods (and Keep Them Looking Sharp)

 

The best part of investing in quality leather goods is how well they age. But how your leather ages really depends on how well you treat it. Treat them poorly and they’ll fall apart, but if you’re sure to take care of them and give them a… Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Take a Walk: What a Day in the Woods Does to Me

I recently read an exceptional book by John Muir, father of our modern wanderlust and grand adventurer in a time where the great outdoors was truly an untamed place. His descriptions of a first look at the Sierras, of the sprawling views of Yosemite, and the way the woods filled his soul like nothing else could. While the wild is a bit more domesticated now with established trails, cell coverage, and guidebooks, it still holds in an important key to the overall sanity of humankind.… Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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'Moana' Repeats at #1, Topping Slow Post-Thanksgiving Weekend

In a repeat of last weekend, Disney's Moana finished atop the weekend box office for a second week in a row followed by the third weekend of WB's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Overall the weekend played pretty much as expected with a few over-performers here and there along with the weekend's widest new release Incarnate falling short of its meager expectations. Moana dropped 50% from its three-day opening weekend, finishing #1 with an estimated $28.37 million bringing the a...

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How to: Make DIY Instagram Coasters with Your Own Photos

This holiday season, I wanted to give my friends and family a customized gift with some personality. So, using nothing but our own photos and a few crafty tools, I came up with this coaster project which is super fun, super inexpensive, plenty easy, and you can dial it in perfectly for each person on your list - just raid their Instagram or social media accounts!

Let's get to it!… Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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Consider Making This Elegant Stainless Steel Plum Knife

What Actually Happens During Any DIY Project

Hi ManMakers - I shared this pic of the scrap pile from my current project on Instagram last night, accompanied by this little meditation.… Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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A Dark Basement Becomes the New ManMade Workshop (+ Giveaway!)

 

This post was sponsored by KILZ, a brand that believes in makers and dream-shop builders everywhere. Thanks for supporting the brands that support ManMade.

A few years ago, if you'd asked me which tool I thought was the most important, I'd probably have punted, wavered a bit, and never chose a single item. There are too many cool tools, and too many essential ones I use on every project. But if you'd asked me the same question last month, my answer would have been decidedly clear, and much more informed by a different kind of personal experience:  

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'Moana' To Repeat at #1 Over Post-Thanksgiving Weekend

Following the hustle and bustle of the extended, Thanksgiving weekend it makes sense this weekend would be a bit quieter. Set to repeat atop the weekend box office is Disney's Moana followed once again by WB's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as the rest of the field settles in below. The weekend features one new wide release in BH Tilt's Incarnate, offering horror fans a little something as the lone horror film currently in wide release, while Freestyle issues the moderate release ...

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How to: Make This Leather Roll Wallet

 

I've always been a big fan of the leather roll for personal tools, so it wasn't a big leap to for me to fall in love with this DIY Leather Roll Wallet from Shauna Wightman. It's got room for all your cards and cash, plus it's meant to be able to hold your phone as well.   … Continue reading on ManMadeDIY.com

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