I bought about a month ago and am so glad I did. It brought my home's humidity from about 80% to 60% in about a week! I live in northern IL and in the summer, for 3 months, you can cut the humidity with a knife. It works great because every morning and every evening I have to empty the bucket which makes me so happy because I know it's working! And it's so quiet!! I have it in our living room on high all day and night and we don't have to turn it down or TV up because it's so quiet!