Marnie vs. the Floss Drawer

Marnie's bathroom drawer held eleven flossers, four half-used tubes of the string kind, and one ambitious tool she had bought in a moment of optimism. She opened it every morning, sighed, and closed it again.

Her sister Dee, who has opinions about everything, put one on the counter at Thanksgiving planning weekend: a Waterpik Aquarius countertop water flosser. It had a reservoir, a handful of tips, and adjustable pressure settings. "Start on low," Dee said. "It's a faucet for your teeth. Respect it."

Marnie started on low. By day three she had stopped narrating it. By day ten the drawer was a normal drawer again, holding only the things that belong in a drawer, and she had moved her good intentions to the garage.

She did add one thing to the routine: a JBL Go 4 speaker on the shelf, because the morning is better with a podcast, and the bathroom is steamy. The Go 4 is waterproof and dustproof, so the shelf was no trouble at all. Dee called it "a lot of upgrades for one drawer." Marnie said, "It was a very full drawer."

Back in the real world: the Waterpik Aquarius is a countertop water flosser with a water reservoir and multiple pressure settings; the JBL Go 4 is a small portable Bluetooth speaker with an IP67 water and dust rating. Prices above were what I saw on Amazon on Oct 7 during Prime Big Deal Days and can change.