Dish soap is the hardest working bottle in my kitchen, and the little squeeze bottles never lasted as long as they should. This season I switched our sink to refill jugs and worked through the dawn dish soap refill jug…
Every drawer in my house seems to run on AA and AAA batteries: remotes, game controllers, the kids' toys, flashlights, wall clocks, and a small army of holiday decorations. For the past two months I stocked up on energizer aa…
Our home printer earns its keep: school projects, shipping labels, work documents, and a steady stream of coloring pages. It runs on the 63 and 65 cartridge family, so this quarter I tested the hp 63xl 65xl high-yield ink cartridge…
Project Hail Mary has been my most recommended book of the past few years, so when our reading group chose it again ahead of the film, I went all in on formats: the hardcover novel, the deluxe edition, the Blu-ray,…
I read verity verity, or rather I read Verity, the Colleen Hoover thriller that has been passed around my book club for two years, in several editions over the past month. There is the ebook edition, the paperback, the Italian…
I have worn soft contact lenses for over a decade, and the solution I soak them in matters more than most people realize by hour ten of a long day. For the past six weeks I rotated through the biotrue…
Toilet paper is the one household product nobody thinks about until it is bad, and my house has strong opinions after years of bargain rolls that tore, pilled, and vanished in a week. This month I worked through the charmin…
I used to dry my face with the same bath towel that hung by the sink all week, until a skincare deep dive made me question that habit. That is how I ended up testing the skin club towels xl…
My teeth have felt sensitive for years, the kind of zing you notice with cold water or a bite of ice cream, so my toothpaste shelf has seen a lot of brands. This month I worked through the sensodyne repair…
I spend a lot of fall and winter outdoors, between early morning fishing trips, my kids' soccer games, and a job that keeps me outside in January. Cold fingers used to cut every outing short, so this season I stocked…