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Flipping through The Manual: Fall cocktails, tent pods, our favorite shaving creams

Burned out on apps, keyboards, and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming, and culture. Here are a few of our favorite stories to appear on The Manual lately.

The best hot cocktails for cold Autumn weather

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Cold outside? Sounds like the perfect excuse to knock back a cup of hot booze. Here’s a few of our favorite hot cocktail recipes — including some new and different takes on classic concoctions, as well as a few that you’ve probably never heard of.

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Trekking: Cozy up next to your neighbor with the Pod Tent

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Camping doesn’t have to be a solitary experience if you don’t want it to be. Pod Tents conveniently interconnect via tunnels, thus allowing you to form extensive tent compounds that are as large or as small as you’d like them to be.

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The Manual’s top ten best shaving creams

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Are you tired of using the same ol’ shaving cream? We suggest you take a look at this list of the best shaving creams out there.

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Pendleton launches first-ever men’s collection

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We feel for fall 2016, we are excited about releasing a larger presentation of products focused at a “fashion meets function” concept to a fashion conscious customer, a younger consumer with a segment of our collection and an outdoor/ functional consumer.

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Man School 101: How to unclog the kitchen sink

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The best way to deal with a clogged kitchen sink is to not let the damn thing clog in the first place. We’ll talk about some ways to avoid that, but assuming it’s already too late, and the drain is no longer draining, the second best way to handle a serious kitchen sink clog is to abandon your home at once.

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