@Euniceandrich I don’t think enough. I got a 2 pack of Sonicare brushes from meh at the end of 2019 and they’re both still working just fine. Don’t think it’s worth pulling the trigger for a few extra speed settings. I like the middle one I currently use.

@seraphimcaduto That’s the way! I’ve never even considered getting the knockoff brushheads from Amazon. Probably full of something bad for your health.

@CraigDanger Buy another one here, and that will lower your average cost by $10, so should make you feel a little bit better.

@phendrick genius.

@thebigtverberg I never realized how good premium headphones can be until I got my Sony WH1000-XM5’s. I legit use them several hours every day.

I will say that Sonicare brushes are worth it, but I got a 2 pack of a different model from meh in 2019 and they’re still running great.

@thebigtverberg had similar thoughts when my folks gifted us early models of electronic toothbrushes years ago, but dang they work great, my gums are healthier and cleaning at the dentist goes a lot faster

@warpedrotors you should post back after your next dentist visit, lol. I used to get cavities quite often, but since I started with a Sonicare I haven’t had one.

@warpedrotors I had that wouldn’t charge on my charger, but started charging on my wife’s charger and now charges fine again on either. Suspect I let the battery get too low

@gwrankin maybe you ran out of places to get cavities.

@lisagd The app is optional and I think I’ve used it maybe 3x in a year and the app does two useful things, times your brushing and tells you when the brush head (likely) needs to be replaced. Once I realized the toothbrush has an auto shutoff and replace the head like a toothbrush, I never used the app again.

@QU8yNRXWYqyq There have been studies that show that pretty much any electric toothbrush is so significantly better than manual brushing that any further difference between the electric toothbrushes is really not that big a deal. It’s like if your options for travelling are a horse and buggy, a Honda Civic, or a Lamborghini, unless you just have the cash to spare, the civics gonna do you just fine. I got a oral B Braun toothbrush off meh in the VERY early days of the site and it still works. The battery is old and it it only good for a couple uses before a charge is needed but the motor and handle have held up fine. There a bajillion different generic replacement heads that are cheap as dirt. My dentist never has any major complaints about my oral hygiene when I go in for cleanings. That toothbrush cost me like $15 at the time. It’s the Honda Civic of toothbrushes. This thing is a Lambo. All the bells and whistles and will probably start to break down in a few years or so the comments say.

@QU8yNRXWYqyq So far, my favorite discontinued Colgate brush has been able to remove more crap than any of the electrics, faster and with less irritation. This is not true for any other brush I’ve tried. YMMV.

@rmcclel I know the heads are replaceable, but I’m not sure what my feelings on a refurbish toothbrush are.

@OnionSoup @rmcclel On the Philips site it says this model is discontinued and I suspect that is the reason for the “refurbished” condition. Chances are they never were in anybody else’s icky gross dirty mouth.

But no guarantees.

@OnionSoup @pmarin @rmcclel And … the brush heads are new, not refurbished. Sheesh.

@jermops I think this model only has the “travel case” which is just a plastic snap case as you say. There have been some premium models that had the “travel charging case” that took a USB input and would charge. The design was from pre-2010 and used the original mini-USB (not micro-USB, and definitely not USB-C, i.e. a 20-year-old cable almost nobody uses anymore). The good news is that these still work with the old case if you have one from this series (form factor has not changed in 15-20 years). But all recent models I’ve seen for sale just come with the basic non-charging case. So yes you’re S.O.L. if you want to take a long trip, unless you have one of the older “premium” cases.

@clarion47 It’s true that if you have another Sonicare (or even Oral-B) toothbrush with an old brush head you don’t use anymore, you can use it to clean the handle especially the part around the base of the brush where stuff builds up.

But after that you probably don’t want to use that old brush-head in your mouth again

@clarion47 @pmarin There’s a kind of sticky that comes from plastic breaking down; I have some pots and pans this has happened with. It’s horrible, the plastic just gets soft and tacky and nothing seems to help.

@clarion47 @Kyeh @pmarin If It’s not a soft grip plastic, then try cleaning the surface with isopropyl alcohol. I have found that this takes the sticky outer coating off of a lot of those plastics. Unfortunately, some of them, particularly the ones that say soft grip, go sticky all the way to the core, and there’s absolutely no way to fix it.

@kuoh fortunately all the Trackr batteries are dead or else they’d probably join the attack in whatever limited capacity they have.

@picard1595 likewise… My order of 2 was just cancelled, and as a sorry I get $5??? That’s pretty lousy.

@Devotech This usually means that the supplier had fewer available than had been promised, but you can ask over at meh.com/support and they may be able to tell you what happened.