My kids clogged the drain—I skipped the plumber and fixed it with a $23 gadget

Back in April, my 4-year-old’s birthday party went sideways when some finger puppet toys got flushed down the toilet. The thing barely drained after that, and I spent way too long with a plunger getting nowhere. My son kept telling me that a visitor put “puppets” in the potty and that “the toys went down and around the drain,” but that didn’t help me much since I couldn’t actually see inside the pipe. Emergency plumbers around here want $150–$300 just to show up, so I went a different route. Plus, I much prefer to DIY any home repair/improvement I reasonably can. So, I grabbed an Endoscope Camera with Light off Amazon for $23 with next-day shipping. I fixed the problem myself and ended up using it for another project a few months later.