Skulls and crossbones are so 2003 and not particularly categorized as masculine or feminine, at least not to me.

Puffs has a better selection of designs. I've seen plaids, world maps, sports-themes, etc.

I do like the idea of a rusty tissue box cover though, or something made out of a chrome bumper.

I have some ideas for manly box covers you could make yourself.

1. Easter Island Statue Tissue Box cover (The Kleenex comes out of the statues nose)
MOAI Statue

2. For a halloween theme carve a pumpkin into a tissue box holder. It could get a bit messy if you don't clean out the gunk inside. Wouldn't it be sweet to pull a kleenex out of a pumpkin!

3. You could make a wire tissue box pumpkin for halloween too! It wouldn't have the authentic pumpkin smell however.

4. Roadkill tissue box cover. Why do we let those beautiful rabbit pelts rot on the road. Next time you see some roadkill with a nice coat stop and convert it into the most manly tissue cover ever! For dramatic effect the Kleenex should come out of the mouth of the animal.

Not particularly cheap, but you can create your OWN Kleenex boxes at http://www.mykleenextissue.com/

I've always shared a similar dissatisfaction with tissue box design. Some places sell just flat colors. I believe Target sells (sold) them.

Check backgrounds are also predominantly feminine. hmph.

How about a TNT box with a plunger that you push down and a tissue ejects out of the box?

You *did* mean that the cow cover was "udderly" just okay, right? Not "utterly," right?

Udderly.

Thanks for such a great blog, Matt.

Best,
Mary

wow! Look at all these wonderful comments! This is certainly nothing to sneeze at!

Tom-- skull and crossbones are SO 2003! That's hilarious AND true!

Andy-- I OWN the Easter Island tissue box cover! IT'S TRUE! And i left a review for it on Amazon! Check it out, it should be the second review on the page.

Kelly-- That Kleenex custom-create-your-own-kleenex box page had me at their headline, "Let out your creative juices." UH, CAN WE SAY, "EWWWWWWW!"?

Moose-- Target sells flat colors? That's cool. I hope they are not:
A) Pink
B) Blue
C) Light blue
But of course they would be those colors, THAT'S SO TYPICAL! Target, narrrrrrrr!

Moose-- dropping the double comment bomb! haha. that's funny, cuz you actually suggested a tissue box in the form of a TNT box. Pun not intended on my part, but certainly entertainedful.

Mary-- "udderly!" snap. I am so full of bull-yoni for getting that wrong. That's just grazy. But to steer this in a serious direction... you have a fantastic blog too. Everyone should head over to http://www.maryfons.com/cblog, because she writes some very amoosing posts!

How about one that looks like an old fashioned rotary phone, but when you lift the receiver there's a hole with tissues coming out?

Or one which is perfectly round? That would make getting tissues challenging and maybe kind of fun, uless you were sick and miserable.

My father bought some plain wooden tissue box covers at some craft store - Michael's maybe? - and then he would spray paint them, and then sometimes decoupage on top of that. Each bathroom in his home now has a perfectly coordinated tissue box cover.

When I was in high school, I would take boxes of tissues, paper or paint over the entire outside, and collage on top of that - a lot of trouble for something that can't be reused, but better than those damn white flowers on the grey background that we always seemed to have in my house.

You can pull tissues out of Chewbacca's head! http://community.livejournal.com/starwarscrafts/14539.html
It's really scary!