Hey there starship troopers! It’s the holiday season and we’re here to help you get your shit together in a variety of ways: recipes, kits, gift guides, holiday how-tos and so very much more. Come along with us, won’t you, to Autostraddle Holigays 2011! FYI, if you follow the amazon links from our website when making holiday purchases, Autostraddle gets a little percentage of that money via our Amazon affiliates account, so we encourage you to do that All Season Long!! Thank you!
You know what’s awesome? Sports? You know what else is awesome? Giving people gifts you can make excuses to come over and use. Combine these things and you have this gift guide.
What’s more baller than watching sports on a lawn? This will have to wait until the winter’s over but catching a game and some rays at the same time would be a great way to celebrate the warm weather’s return.
While you’re out on the lawn you might as well be drunk. Get yourself a sports-themed pong table and keep all those friends that don’t like watching entertained. It’s also an actual ping pong table if you’re too mature for beer pong. It folds up so it’s great for tailgates.
Do you know someone that dies when it’s not football season? Get them this show about a group of friends and their fantasy football league to tide them over. It’s a loosely scripted comedy that’s hilarious even if you don’t know anything about football or Shiva blasting.
They’re going to need somewhere to store those DVDs. Now that Netflix is ridiculous, DVD purchasing might be coming back around. Protect your collection and support your favorite team.
I’m only friends with people who can pull off hats. That’s actually something I said to Grace off-handedly but has become a new requirement. A hat is one of those things people may have always wanted to try to pull off but they never want to risk buying one themselves. Help ’em out. Give head a chance.
Combination bottle opener/caribiner
Do you have a friend that’s always upset people don’t know they’re gay? Get them one of these. No one will ever doubt them again.
Maybe there will be a cute girl around that gets chilly and they’ll be there to save the day. Or maybe they just get cold easily.
These are dangerous. You can easily blow an hour because you’re determined to hit most difficult shot you can think up so be careful who you give one to. Especially if it’s someone who thinks everything is a competetion. I bet I typed this sentence faster than you read it. Boom, I just won.
Girls with guns. Hot.
When you run to the fridge, is there that one friend that needs you to grab them a drink every time? They even time their drinking pace to match yours? Get them one of these. It might make catching games with them a little more bearable.
You can’t just use a picture of Abby Wambach and Megan Rapinoe in the link and then not post USWNT swag. Or more pictures of Abby and Pinoe.
I believe they still get affiliate credits if you click the links but then search for what you actually want. (And I know that’s the case with the affiliate link on the sidebar.)
Could someone verify this? Because then I’ll make absolutely sure to buy my Amazon things through here.
(Most of the things you guys directly link to do not ship to my cul-de-sac on the other side of the big lake.)
She’s right. http://www.autostraddle.com/support-autostraddle/
Thanks for showing me. Happy to know this !
Also, Abby Wambach made the finals for FIFA women’s player of the year earlier this week so she should get a double mention!
I second that Anna. I even went back through and made sure I didn’t accidentally miss it. So sad.
Caribiner that is also a bottle opener! Practical AND queer and an excuse to grab your friends by the belt loops.
paintball is both terrifying and awesome. like sex!
I prefer sex.
the basketball hoop brings back so many childhood memories of me and my brother injuring each other in our hallway.
I’m really tempted to get the nerf hoop, I may be taking baby steps toward adulthood but I’m a kid at heart
I second that. That nerf hoop looks awesome! But I’m still hoping that one day Amazon will start using Paypal as a paying method. Ofcourse then I would become an Amazon addict! Via Autostraddle.
I already own two sets of paintball gear, I just need someone to go with…
I thought you were representing the hometown until I saw that Pirates hat. Sox hat would have looked so much better. :)
I still own the nerf hoop, bought one in college… no longer in use but it’s on my closet door…facing inward.
Agreed re: the Sox but I didn’t want to overdo the Chicago representation since I already had U of I and da Bears.
totally love the league. i’m curious about the extra content though as i’ve watched season 1 at least 3 times. i wonder if i can convince my gf to get it for me for christmas. lol.
finding this in 2018 just made my week
DVD case!!!!