For me, it’s an electric toothbrush. It doesn’t matter if you go with Sonicare or Oral-B, once you start using an electric toothbrush, regular toothbrushes don’t ever feel like they clean your teeth properly. The smooth plaque-free top layer of your teeth that you can feel after using an electric toothbrush can’t be replicated with a regular toothbrush.

A small countertop water cooler/dispenser with a refillable filter bottle on top. (if you have the floor space, a stand up cooler is usually more energy efficient tho) Something like this: With one of these on top: www.zerowater.com/products/filtered-water-cooler Clean filtered water, both boiling hot and almost ice cold, on-demand. Filling water bottles, cups, making hot chocolate, tea, instant noodles, even just starting to boil a pot using pre-heated water, taking so much less time. I love this thing. When it comes to filters: Zerowaters products specifically come with a Total Disolved Solids meter measuring in parts-per-million. I was previously using a Brita filter jug which poured into a second filter from Aquapur ontop of my cooler. My Tap water: 143ppm Brita filter: 139ppm Brita+Second filter: 87ppm Replaced both with a single zerowater filter: 0ppm After pulling close to 30 gallons through that filter its risen to ~8ppm (they want you to replace it at >6) Project farm testing water filters.

Why would I care about trace minerals in drinking water though? Just want the chlorine taste removed and activated carbon filters seems to do that just fine.