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Friday, November 29, 2024
Best Tool and Outdoor Gear Gifts for Christmas 2024
Pro Tool Reviews: It’s clear that we at Pro Tool Reviews love our tools. In addition to seeing some truly amazing new tools this year, we also witnessed the release of equally impressive outdoor gear. That makes for lots of great gifts and ideas for this holiday season. We gathered up some of our favorite tools, products, and gear this year to present you with a “cheat sheet” of the best tool gifts for Christmas 2024. I’ve organized everything by price to keep it simple and make it easy to pick a gift for that special tradesman or outdoorsman in your life.
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The lobster claw was pretty funny. There were a lot of utility knives on this list. It makes me think of all of the utility knives that the DPs have. I ask them what they use the knives for and they say that you might not think you need it, but ever since they got their utility knives, they have used them daily. I wonder if there are other things like that in life. Maybe for me, it would be my phone. At first, I thought I would never need a phone (like when I was 14 and just getting my first phone) but now I use it every day. It is silly how materialistic we have become. A lot of the things on this list we would probably never need or use, and here is a list saying that they are great idea for gifts. Maybe they are great as gifts and just that, nothing more, not born out of need, but instead out of a desire to show our appreciation for someone. But if they are not needed, then why would we show someone we appreciate them by giving them something we don't need?
I really enjoyed reading this list of different outdoorsy equipment for Christmas. It really did feel like every item was picked with the idea of being a Christmas gift and wasn't just a list of advertisements. The author had a good amount of humor in the item descriptions while still giving all the needed info on why it is actually a good item. I also appreciated the wide variety of outdoor jobs that the items would help out with, such as the several multi tools being on the list as well as ear buds and cast iron skillets and the remarkable tablet. All have such varying uses for any number of people who go outside and work. My mom would appreciate a new meat thermometer for when she goes outside to grill and my dad would appreciate the headphones for running. The more I think about the items on the list the more I can think of people who would like each one for any number of reasons.
You can bet that if I am doing news comments and I see a tool post, I'm going to write about it. However, I was slightly disappointed with this article. A lot of this felt like a few of the "tools" were sponsored and weren't actually there because of their quality or usefulness. However there were a few that I liked. I did really like the knife sharpener kit, as a sharp knife is a safe knife, I have been looking to get a kit for myself at some point. I also thought the idea of the self-feeding weed wacker was smart, but I also probable wouldn't pay $330 for it when you can get a pretty good quality regular one for around $100 dollars. However in a few years when the price inevitably goes down or I see one on Facebook marketplace, I might make the jump. The other thing that I thought looked useful was the toolboxesque shop vac. Too often I have been inconvenienced by the heft of a shop vac compared to its crappy wheels. I made-to-carry shop vac is just the thing I need to remedy that problem. I also thought that the backpack looked stupid, but that's not really important.
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