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We scour eBay everyday looking for unique items for rec rooms. We post five of the best auctions we could find here daily -- Monday through Friday. 5 at Five is also our blog, featuring a variety of useful news and information unsuited for anywhere else on our site.

Gene Wilder memorabilia

Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory… just to name a few.  I’ve always been a huge fan of Gene Wilder and am beginning to collect some of his autographs.

Make sure to pick them up while you can, there won’t be anymore made.

Old fashioned popcorn machines

Old-fashioned popcorn machines are good for rec rooms that not only focus around a movie entertainment system, but for those that have a lot of guests constantly.  Popcorn is a cheap and a large quantity of it can be made with minutes with an old-fashion popcorn machine.

They also look great in any styled recreational room.

Counter Height Pub Tables

We love counter-height pub tables for what should be obvious reasons — they hold everything that is pure and precious to us like beer and peanuts.

Take a look at some of the best and cheap counter height pub tables we’ve found:

Gelato Pub Table

Kidkraft Pub Table

What’s in a name?

This is the last time we will mention the terms “man cave” and “manctuary” on our site — they’re now both banned from both our site, as well as our forums. Here’s why:

While we do offer product reviews, guides, and other information for “man caves” and “manctuaries,” we disagree with the usage of terms and any variations of them and refuse to use them on our site. They’re coined terms, commercialized terms, produced and distributed for yuppies.

The definition for a “man cave” is simply a synonym of a variety of other terms already in place, one where a man, or many men, can gather without fear of repercussion to do manly things like play pool, watch sports, talk about many things, etc. Man caves can include and is often a synonym for the following places:

Dorm Rooms
Bachelor Pads
Fraternity Houses
Basements
Game Rooms
Family Room
And our favorite, recreational (rec) rooms.

No harm in that definition, right? Wrong. The difference between man caves and the other places above is one striking disparity — the associated connotations. If you can picture a guy in the suburbs of Phoenix with a wife and a kid, working as an insurance broker using a storage closet in his house to listen to a few old ACDC albums in — I can show you a man cave.

On the other hand, show me a basement with a pool table and a mahogany bar, I’ll show you somebody that has never called their room a “man cave.”

Now, don’t get us wrong — we love Phoenix. Go Suns or whatever. And we’re all married and most have kids. But this doesn’t mean you’re a second class citizen. You don’t need a “cave.” You need a room. A big, nice room that you and your entire family can show off to friends. It doesn’t have to have the flashiest or most expensive things, it just needs to be your designated place to kick back and relax in without guilt.

You shouldn’t be ashamed by it. Unless, of course, you call it a cave.

Product Buying Guides

We have over a dozen buying guides for rec room products around the Rec Room Guide site. I want to keep a master list of them for quick reference for new site visitors, as well as regulars.

Air hockey tables buying guide
Bar stools buying guide
Ceiling fans buying guide
Dart boards buying guide
Foosball tables buying guide
Home bars buying guide
Home theater seating buying guide
Leather home theater seating buying guide
Neon signs buying guide
Poker chips buying guide
Poker tables buying guide
Pool tables buying guide
Popcorn machines buying guide

We’ll update this list as we add more guides to the site.

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