Your dental hygienist will usually give old picks away for free.? Back when I taught SCUBA, we'd get free dental picks to remove the O-ring from SCUBA tank?valves.? And when one of us got a handful, we'd share them with the divemasters and the up-and-coming students who looked like they'd?become divemasters.
Free is better than $4.99, but it's good that HF has them.? You can also find them at gun shows, usually for a dollar each.