Daniel Bader

No one really enjoys Prime Day anymore. The days of finding a needle-in-a-haystack deal are long over, and now it’s more about whether you have the patience to wait until Amazon applies minor discounts to the stuff you really want.

To that end, I usually use the month of June to store things in the “Save it for later” section of my Amazon cart for items that have caught my eye throughout the year but haven’t been cheap enough yet to justify ordering.

Over the years, I’ve accumulated some products that I use every day, that have withstood travel, kids, and time’s daily abuses. Some of them are tech-related, or tech-adjacent, and others are just nice things that I really enjoy.

The long, winding road to the Sonos Play takes us first through some unpaved paths, then to well-paved streets, which lead to wide open highways, at which point we run over a set of tire spikes, skid off the road and hit a tree at high speed, totaling the car in the process.

Now the vehicle is repaired, and we’re slowly inching our way onto the highway onramp, ready to hit those high speeds again.