Rediscover Everyday Products: You've Been Using Them All Wrong

5. Toaster Oven

Walmart, Lowe's, and Home Depot are the best places to buy. Product Price on Average: $40–$300* According to the USFA, residential fires, or fires that occur in your home, are the most common type of property where people die from fire. In your home, 75% of fire-related fatalities occur. There were 1.32 million fires in 2018, resulting in 15,200 injuries, 3,655 fatalities, and $25.6 billion in property damage.

©Andrew Valdivia ("Donovan")/Unsplash A pound of prevention is worth more than an ounce of cure, as the proverb goes. After using an appliance, such as a toaster oven, unplug it, regardless of how expensive or inexpensive it is from Home Depot. Toaster ovens were actually named as one of the top five "most dangerous appliances" in the house by personal injury lawyer Edgar Snyder.