Recommend your humidifer

shuga_23

We have a hand-me-down Vicks one that works only sometimes. I'm not sure if I should buy one of the cute ones...frog or elephant...or just go with a standard one.

What do you have? Do you like it?

KatieLG04

We've had a few Vick's humidifiers that are ok.  I have to say they are the worst things to clean and get absolutely disgusting (I clean it with bleach every week).  I bought one for downstairs that we haven't used yet that is a Holmes or Honeywell brand.  I bought it because it said on the box how easy it was to clean.  I can't confirm that yet however.

kclouts

We have a regular old Holmes one that has worked since Ridley was a baby (we use it every night).  It does get gross and does require a cleaning often, but I think that is just the way it is with humidifiers.

MA&CB

We have one of those elephant ones...we don't use it a ton, but it works fine.  It does get yucky in there, but I'm guessing they all do.

tripin

We have a cute jaguar one. We love it. We have another kind in our bedroom, which is fine too. The jaguar one does get yucky if I let it run too long without cleaning it. If I clean it every other week with bleach we seem to have great luck.

SBTibbs

We have the penguin one from Target (I think the brand is Crane). We just started using it this winter in Eli's room at night and like it so far.

jgreg29

We have a Holmes table-top one that I love!  It is very quiet, lighweight and doesn't get as gunky as other humidifiers I've had.

danieleandwayne

We have 2 Holmes humidifiers. They are quiet, easy to refill, and don't get too nasty as long as we don't leave the water just sitting around in there (i.e. keep them running or empty them when they're going to be off for more than 4 hours).

I will say this-- do not get one with filters. Aside from being INSANELY expensive ($15 a pop and they need to be changed often because of the mold), they just seem to collect mold. I am allergic to mold and MH and i had to replace our 2 humidifiers because they had filters and they were making me so sick. The ones without the filters work great without making me ill (which is kind of the whole point, right?). 

I went online and checked out user reviews-- on Amazon, Sears, etc. It gave me a good feel for the units I ended up buying (noise vs. ease of use vs. leaking, etc.). 

 

Skye77

Ours is Honeywell from Walmart - it's an all house one and we love it.  Easy to refill and we put Bacteriostat in there so the mold doesn't grow.  It works and we don't have to change the filter all that often.  It's a $10 filter.  Not too bad.  I love our humidifier.

MrsSweetpeaMagee

SBTibbs:

We have the penguin one from Target (I think the brand is Crane). We just started using it this winter in Eli's room at night and like it so far.

 

We have this one too, and had the elephant in the past (we would still have the elephant, but in my infinite  "getting the house ready for camp" wisdom... I accidentally left water in it all summer... EWWWW) 

It seems to work ok, Keaghan did wake up from his nap with a little bloody nose that I can't figure out if it was from a tiny cut he got sticking his finger up there, or from dryness in the house... 

hikingnclimbing

Just be careful because humidifiers and vaporizers are really two different things. Like most things, you get what you pay for and you will often have better results with a more expensive, higher end unit (aka not a cute frog one). We've used the stereotypical "I can see the moisture coming out" ones and they leave a white film over everything and can leave a wet area on furniture and flooring if you aren't careful.

A good break down of the different types can be seen here: http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/differencebaby_sixo.htm

The best solution we ever had was a huge fish tank. As soon as we got rid of it, our house dried out.

Good luck!