We had this blender for years. It was VERY affordable and the quality of it was great! It made lots of great smoothies and worked well very consistently. We recently got a new blender, ONLY because we wanted to make larger smoothies! Our kids love them so much and we do to - so we wanted to make a larger quantity. This new blender was a little bit more expensive but still reasonable for the amount of use we get out of it! So far it works great!