Polly,
You have to tear the cardboard package apart to get to the picks. Then you see that one board of picks is in a plastic container but the others are not! So you have to figure out a way to store them and keep them sanitary. I ended up just putting them in the medicine cabinet, hardly as sanitary as I would like. So theyre out of sight and I havent remembered to try them after the first time. First, and only, impression: flimsy, dont waste your money on a flimsy product that you cant keep sanitary. I will probably throw them out.