I meant to post this for Works for Me Wednesday, but I forgot to post it on Wednesday.

We have very dry (electric) heat in this house.  It had been causing us some problems, so we bought humidifiers.  I bought some cheap Vicks steam humidifiers, because I read that they kill more of the potential mold, etc. than the cool mist ones.  (They do add a little more heat to the air, though, so we had to bump the settings on our heaters back a tad.)  And I wanted one that did not take a filter, because who are we kidding – am I ever going to remember to change a bunch of humidifier filters on time?  There is no way.  So then we would be breathing mold or something and probably worse off than we were without the humidifiers.  So I bought these, which were about $13 each, I think.  We can run them for an hour or so in each bedroom at bedtime, and then it is plenty moist and we will run ourselves out if we keep them on (especially if we also close the doors).  I wish they had on/off switches, though, as one is plugged in behind a dresser and it isn’t very easy to plug and unplug it every day.

But using humidifiers has certainly been working for us!

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