This year my husband and I have decided to make holiday gift-giving easy on each other — we both have Amazon wish lists propagated with a selection of inexpensive items. Choose gift, add to cart, kerblam: spousal shopping is done.

I suppose it doesn’t sound very romantic, but we’ve got a budget to stick to and about a thousand other holiday-related things to do, and really, the Amazon wish list is a genius invention, anyway. How else would I know that he wanted an actual ant farm? (Note to my husband: I am SO not buying you that thing, because somehow I have the feeling I’ll be cleaning up after eighty billion escaped insects if I do so.)

For those of you who have a dude to shop for and no wish lists on hand, I’ve got a few suggestions from past gifts that have been super successful in our household:

Grill Alert Talking Remote Thermometer. Stick a stainless steel sensor into whatever you’re cooking, and you can carry the receiver up to 300 feet away — an LED screen tells you exactly what temperature the food is at. No worrying about accidentally poisoning your family with under-cooked roast beast, no cutting into the meat to check for doneness, etc.

Benchmade Benchmite Pocketknife. The perfect size for carrying around for those mysterious pocketknife purposes guys seem to enjoy, like opening boxes or manfully slicing into a choking victim’s trachea.

Slimmy Wallet. A sleek little wallet designed to be carried in a front pocket. The Slimmy is meant to hold only the bare necessities, so it’s a good way to break a bad habit of carrying 483851 cards, receipts, and documents everywhere you go. Great for the guy who’s starting to list starboard because of the fifty pounds of crap in his wallet.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. Armchair survivalists will love this creepy collection of physical and psychological reasons people make it (or don’t) through life-threatening situations.

Petzl Tikka 3-LED Headlamp. I asked my husband for a review of this headlamp, and he said, “I have this and it works great. It’s really bright, and the battery lasts a long time. Awesome for camping or when you need to illuminate something but keep your hands free. For the guys who jam a flashlight in their mouth instead, dude, just think how you look.”

How about you, Dear Readers — any ideas for the menfolk on your gift list this year? Past successes to share with the rest of us, maybe?