In the final days of last year, we asked the staff of the Strategist to reflect on 2024 through a particularly Strategist-y lens: the stuff we bought and the stuff we noticed. In order to gather this data, we put together a giant end-of-year survey and asked all our staff of specialists to pool their knowledge on the year just gone. From the cheapest best things we bought to the stuff we bought in bulk and the trends we catalogued (soft suitcases made a comeback, and everyone threw out their black plastic kitchen utensils), here’s the Strategist’s year in review.