I stocked our changing table with pampers swaddlers diapers before our baby arrived, and over the first months I worked through five different sizes and pack counts as she grew. I kept notes on leaks, blowouts, overnight dryness, and how…
Allergy season turns my house into a tissue economy, and I have strong feelings about boxes that run out or tissues that shred. Over the past month I placed five Kleenex options around our home and cars: Ultra Soft cubes…
Charmin people are loyal people, and after a month of stocking our bathrooms with five sizes of the Ultra Soft Cushiony Touch line, I understand the religion better. The paper itself does not change across these packs; what changes is…
I packed up a storage unit, shipped a dozen sold items, and helped my sister move across town in the same month, which makes me accidentally qualified to review packing tape. I worked through five Scotch options: the heavy duty…
Every home has a drawer of dead batteries and a remote that dies during the good part of the movie. I spent the past month putting five Duracell Coppertop packs through our house: remotes, game controllers, flashlights, a smoke detector…
Toilet paper is the one household staple nobody thinks about until the wrong kind is on the holder, and then everybody has opinions. I stocked our bathrooms with five Cottonelle options over the past month, the Ultra Clean and Ultra…
I buy the shoes in our house, and kids destroy footwear with a creativity that defies testing labs. So over the past month I rotated five versions of the Crocs Kids Classic Clog through school runs, playground sessions, garden puddles,…
I picked up Atomic Habits after one too many January resolutions collapsed by February, and this time I read it slowly, a chapter each morning, while actually trying the systems it describes. Then I worked through the other editions and…
I carry a tumbler from the kitchen to the car to my desk every single day, and I was tired of lukewarm coffee by ten and watery iced tea by lunch. So I spent two weeks rotating five YETI Rambler…
I cook dinner for a family that expects real food on weeknights, and my slow cooker was not keeping up with our schedule. So I spent two weeks rotating five Instant Pot models through the same rotation of beans, rice,…