Tedium Highlight in Holidays: Tedium’s annual year-end gift guide comes early this year. 

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Fake Festive Vs. Real Thing

The tale of the modern Christmas tree is a concept that constantly passes through a tale of sustainability, whether the tree is real or fake.

You Know, For Kids

Pondering the uncomfortable relationship kids and parents have with technology—and making a case that kids deserve the chance to fall in love with gadgets.

Give Like You Don’t Care

This year’s Tedium gifts-for-strangers guide has a bunch of additional gift ideas from eBay, too. Just wait until you see the boxed water from Farm Aid II.

Gingerbread In The House

A tasty Christmas-time treat, gingerbread is surprisingly versatile, with deep roots in storytelling—and (of course!) a deep footprint in pop culture.

The Gift Of 2020

Sure, maybe this year was a bit of a stinker. But as our last-minute holiday guide shows, there’s still lots of strange crap you can buy people you barely know.

Four Things A-Weirdin’

The roots of a whole bunch of holiday-season things we do without even bothering to question their origins. Use this knowledge to sound smart this year.

Four Things A-Watchin’

Tedium starts a holiday series by recommending a bunch of holiday things that might have fallen off your watch lists … if they were ever there.

Gifts From People Who Don’t Try

It’s that time of year, when Tedium publishes an annual gift guide intended for people your indifferent towards. The goal, of course, is alienation.

A Parade Of Ragamuffins

Before the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade became a New York City icon, another holiday event once took place at the same time. The department store won.

Pato’s Game Theory Christmas

The tale of how a college engineering professor once used game theory to turn his holiday gift-giving into an experiment—complete with winners and losers.

Desperation-Tinged Gift Ideas

Every year, Tedium looks back and publishes a last-minute gift guide full of odd crap we found from the prior 12 months. Think we’re gonna change gears now?

Corporate Casserole

Pondering Thanksgiving through an exceedingly corporate lens. Some of the holiday’s most important elements were brought to you by marketing and lobbying.

Doin’ The Mash

The history of the world’s favorite Halloween carol, Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “The Monster Mash.” Here’s how a song about dead creatures came to life.

The Halloween-Industrial Complex

After the 2008 recession, commercial real estate firms had a ton of empty buildings. Fortunately, Halloween stores were ready to fill the gap—for a month.

The Fourth Of Why

Why is America’s Independence Day celebrated on July 4, despite strong evidence the independence took place on a different day?

Gifts For Total Strangers

This year’s Tedium gift guide—designed for people you’re not particularly close to—is full of ideas perfect for alienating yourself with loved ones.

Gifts For People You Don’t Like

Need to weed out some of the folks on your gift list? Buy them some of the stuff listed here. You won't have to worry about buying them a gift next year.

Let's Drop the Ball Again

The state of our tedium in 2016 is pretty freaking weird, and as it turns out, we're not producing most of the tedious stuff.

Christmas on Repeat

Despite often being terrible, we watch the same holiday movies every year. Why's that? Well, it's not often about the movies—it's about our memories.

Stocking Stinkers: A Tedium Gift Guide

For the people at the end of your gift list, here's a gift guide with recommendations for things that you may not have considered. For good reason.
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