Jingle All The Way is an underrated classic.

The “must have” toy mania that it captures was newish then, but is normalized behavior now.

Just that a lot of it takes place over the internet, and there are even more speculators, and the manufacturers deliberately create artificial scarcity to drive profits.

Dishes and pans with dried on crud are the pits.

I always try to soak everything before throwing them in the dishwasher, and even then it takes a pre-scrub to make sure they come out clean.

Huh, whaddya mean? Pans go in the dishwasher just fine. Even nonstick stuff, these days.

edit: Unless you mean cast iron or carbon steel can’t go in the dishwasher, yeah I get that!