Nothing ruins a romantic camping trip faster than spending a half hour wrestling with the tent. (That, and the part where she finds out there’s no “little girl’s room”).

Decathlon USA’s design-award winning Quechua 2-Seconds® Tent lets you get pitched and on to the fun stuff fast.

Women love a guy with a pitched tent, so I tossed the Quechua into the air out behind the Bachelor Pad and watched as it popped open mid-air and floated, fully formed, to the ground. Impressive. Stake it into the ground using the attached lines and you’ll be camped out in style, sitting by the fire, beer in one hand, her in the other, in seconds.

It’s lightweight, waterproof, sleeps two comfortably, and comes in its own backpack for easy hauling. Best of all it costs less than $70.

$69 www.decathlontent.com

Napoleon said it best: Chicks dig guys with skills. Problem is, where do you learn those skills? Right here, with the book/DVD set, titled, appropriately enough, "The Book Of Cool".

We're not talking cheesy, Fonzie cool. The 320 page full-color book and three included DVDs are jammed with step by step how-to videos hosted by the world's best performers at over 20 different skills or sports.

Ever dreamt of turning a pool table into a landscape of eye-defying trick shots to impress that hot blonde in the corner? Done. Want to blow away a party crowd with bottle-flippin' bartending skills that would make Tom Cruise dizzy? That's in here too. Everything from extraordinary "casino" card skills and street basketball moves, to juggling, golf tricks and even break dancing. All here.

Impress your buddies, win bar bets, get the girl, or just plain show off. And leave those other guys thinking: "That was cool."

$39.99 www.bookofcool.com

Most of us would rather try do-it-yourself dentistry than play interior decorator and choose paint colors for our place. But until someone designs a house or apartment building just for men, with pre-painted rooms in perfect colors that go with everything, we’ll have to live with the San Quentin homeyness of plain white walls.

Or maybe not. Looks like Pittsburgh Paints has got our backs. To make paint selection easier, and more personalized, they developed the Color Sense GameTM. Always up for a game, I gave it a shot.

Located on Pittsburgh Paint's website, www.voiceofcolor.com, it takes about five minutes to complete the series of questions designed to get a sense of your personal tastes and moods.

When you're done, Color Sense gives you a complete, personalized palette of five colors you can mix and match – not just for paint, but for furniture and accessories too. Plus you get pics showing several combinations so you can't screw this up.

Free at www.voiceofcolor.com

As summer gives way to fall, a couple of things will hold true as they do every year: 1. Your girlfriend will harass you to drive to the country to see the leaves turn colors, and 2. Your sinuses will act up as a result of a cold and/or the flu and/or an allergic reaction to the leaves you drove two grueling hours for your girlfriend to see.

If you're like most guys, you'd have to be stricken with the Ebola virus before you'd take any medication. Cold medicine was developed for girlfriends, not us.

So what do you do if your sinuses are blocked up and you need some quick relief? Reach for Aromaremedy's Sinus Help(R). This small, sinus-clearing bag is filled with beads infused with all-natural essential oils of eucalyptus, peppermint, and lemongrass.

Just hold it up to your nose, inhale the soothing vapors, and feel your head clear. No dosing, no groggy side effects, no dangers. You can use it all day. And it stashes in a coat pocket or briefcase.

$6 for a two pack. Each bag lasts about a month. Available at CVS.

www.aromatherapylabs.com

So you finally ponied up the 2 large and got the 42" plasma. Good. Now it's time to get some real furniture to put it on. Yeah, I know your college girlfriend thought the plywood on cinderblocks holding up your old TV was trendy in an "urban-chic" kinda way, but this is grownup time now. Plasmas deserve better.

I found a line of Italian-designed, luxury audio / visual furniture from Bell'O(R) that will not only add a sense of style to your place, but won't add more dents to your wallet either.

Combining functionality and durability with high gloss finishes and designer woods, Bell'O(R) stands are specifically designed to hold your flat panel and all of its accompanying components. (I know how proud you were when you got the cable box to balance perfectly on top of the TV, but it's time to let go). Use their online product selector to see which stand fits your TV before you buy.

And with prices of many of their stands coming in at under $500, you can display your flat panel in style and still have money left over to consider upgrading to the 50".

www.bello.com for info on styles and retailers.