The Modern Materialist: New and Improved

In lieu of our usual Week in Review post…

I’m excited to announce that, as of next week, The Modern Materialist will be reborn as Tools of Attraction.

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Coffee for Couples

[$32, Ponoko]

The way to Laureen’s heart?

Tea, apparently.

Me? I can easily be won over with coffee, whether iced, cold-brewed, sweetened, frapped, or regular.

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Hold My Purse for Me, Honey

[Rolls-Royce 200EX]

I don’t mean to play so heavily into stereotype, but men certainly do seem to love their cars.

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When You Really (Point and) Click

[Spider Camera Holster]

My typical type of guy usually has several constants: He’s tall, skinny, and has no marketable skills.

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Hot or Not? Be a Snuggle Sellout

Weezer is hot. Snuggies are…not so much.

So will your new lust object be turned on by your great musical taste — or off by your not-so-great taste in bedding — if you ask her to snuggle with you underneath your Wuggie?

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Give Her the Right Idea

[Jonathan Adler]

Jonathan Adler obviously knows that the secret to getting some action is to surround oneself with subtle, sexual imagery. How else to explain the boobilicious vase Alex showed us back in February?

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Help Out in the Kitchen Without Amputating a Finger

[$9.95, Solutions]

Being able to cook a meal for someone is sexy. 

Cooking together is even sexier (don’t you remember that scene in 9 1/2 Weeks?).

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A Bachelor Pad Fit for a Celebrity

[$2,300,000, Sotheby's International Realty]

Upon first pulling up to 370 Beech Street, your date will be uber-impressed because, well, it’s a flipping house on stilts, with 360-degree windows.

She’ll only be more impressed when she realizes that it’s the house used in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. You know. The one where the red Ferrari 250 GT California crashes through the window to the forest floor below.

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Overnight Guests: Make Their Hearts Race

[$79.95, Solutions]

When that one-night stand turns into a morning-after, you have two choices:

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Bachelor Pads: Avoid the Sleazy, the Cheesy, and the Queasy

While women fully expect to find the neon signs, the beer bottle collections, and the pizza box table in your bachelor pad, they still expect some visual sign that you’re not a hopeless case when they’ve been invited up to your place.

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