Product review (1 stars): Great Humidifier, but they bleed you dry ($$) with the Poor Performance of the Filters
Purchased the Honeywell HCM-6009 Cool Moisture Console Humidifier November of 2012.  Live in NYC and have to deal with extreme steam heat.  The old blue filters would last (If we were lucky) about a month.  When they started subbing the "new" white mess design filters without notice I was peeved, but at least we still got a good three weeks use out of them.  The latest generation of the white mesh filters is total trash.  The first one this season lasted 15 days, and the one that followed it died after only 8 days.  It is the printer ink scenario.  The  humidifier only costs $100 but this year alone the cost of keeping it running will be (5 months x 30 days / 8 to 12 days x $14 to $23 ) = $200+.  I can promise you (not that it will  do us any good) that our next humidifier will not be a Honeywell.