Valet.’s Most-Read
Stories of the Year

The 10 most popular stories of 2021

A Simple Slim Down Plan
Fix Your Clothing Yourself
A Man's Fragrance Journey
Look Who's Driving America's Great Resignation
How to Tackle Greying Hair
The Best Training Shoes for Any Workout
The Curse of Cool
The Future of Men's Underwear?
My Morning Routine: Arian Moayed

This was, yet again, a year like no other. Unlike 2020, the pandemic was present all year long—constantly shifting our work lives and home lives. But through it all, the Valet. team continued churning out work to enlighten and entertain—both on the website and in our morning newsletter, The Daily Valet. As we wrap up 2021, the team decided to comb through the data to reflect on the most-read stories from the past twelve months. From the best fitness practices to all the cool products we discovered along with interesting people we met along the way, it was one hell of a year with lots to offer. Herewith, the top audience favorites worth revisiting before we kick things off in the new year.

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1

A Simple
Slim Down Plan

If you want to slim down and just generally lose weight, you don't have to try endless fad diets. All you need is a little discipline and an equal amount of elementary math skills.

Fix Your Clothing Yourself

2

Fix Your
Clothing Yourself

The sartorial cousin to kintsugi is known as sashiko—a Japanese mending technique that uses obvious stitches to enhance a piece of clothing, both functionally and aesthetically.

A Man's Fragrance Journey

3

A Man’s
Fragrance Journey

I've been piecing together my personal fragrance journey. The olfactory path I wandered from middle school to now approaching middle age.

4

Look Who’s Driving
America’s Great Resignation

Harvard Business Review analyzed more than 9 million employee records from more than 4,000 companies, and found that midcareer employees are driving the quits.

How to Tackle Greying Hair

5

How to Tackle
Greying Hair

There are some universal truths when it comes to those pesky grey hairs. They show up when you least expect it and they arrive much quicker than you were anticipating.

The Best Training Shoes for Any Workout

6

The Best Training Shoes
for Any Workout

Preparation is the key to success and what you wear on your feet will definitely impact your performance—be it at the gym, on the track or just in your garage.

7

The Curse
of Cool

To be uncool means to reveal something you never would have revealed to a locker room full of guys in your teenage years, something that you feel might revoke your Man Card forever.

The Future of Men's Underwear?

8

The Future of
Men’s Underwear?

Over the past few years, a new breed of underwear has emerged. Modern boxer briefs, cut from lightweight stretchy material that come equipped with inner pouches that are designed for support and separation.

My Morning Routine: Arian Moayed

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My Morning Routine:
Arian Moayed

Both Stewy, and the character I play in Shonda Rhimes' Inventing Anna, are incredibly groomed men. They spend a ton of time on their appearances, kinda like myself.

10

How to Bring
Some Cool
& Calm Into Your Home

Searches for terms like neutral color palettes, earth tones and wood furniture are up by almost 500% from last year's numbers. And Japandi style fits right into that sweet spot.

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