Scrub Daddy
🧽 Apparently the kids already knew about this one
I ordered a Scrub Daddy off Amazon last month on a whim. Bright yellow, smiley face, looked fun. It showed up, I set it next to the sink, and didn't think much of it.
Then both my kids, separately, and each said the exact same thing: "Oh, you got a Scrub Daddy."
Like I had finally caught up to a meme everyone else was already in on. My son explained he'd watched the Shark Tank episode about it. Apparently it's the most successful product in Shark Tank history. I had no idea. I'm the guy who writes a newsletter about products and my middle schooler is briefing me on the consumer goods landscape.
A few years back I wrote about the EuroScrubby, which is still in our sink rotation alongside a Scotch-Brite and a chain mail sponge for the cast iron. So I'm a sponge guy. I have opinions.
The Scrub Daddy earns it. The polymer is firm in cold water for tough scrubbing and soft in warm water for gentler stuff. The smiley face slot fits over your fingers, which sounds like a gimmick until you're using it to clean the inside of a glass and realize it's not.
The other thing I love: you can throw it on the top rack of the dishwasher or zap it in the microwave to sanitize, and it dries out completely between uses. No funky moldy sponge smell, which is the thing that makes me throw a regular sponge away after two weeks.
Worth the few bucks. Also worth the small humility of being out-shopped by a 15-year-old.
Enjoy!