Rein in the winter static

Read this review: https://www.stereotimes.com/post/cs-port-static-demagnatizer

Also DS Audio makes a similar product.

Get yourself a Vicks warm mist humidifier. It works great and is enough to bump up the humidity in small rooms by a good 4-10%. We ran them overnight on our counters at our last house. I have one in the basement sitting on the bar counter to take care of basement, not just one room. Rooms are averaging about 41% when running. Seems to take the edge off. 
 

https://www.vickshumidifiers.com/products/humidifiers/vicks-warm-mist-humidifier-1/

If you don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on the CS Port or DS Audio gadgets, a Zerostat, used as directed, will remove the static electric charge from an LP surface just prior to playing,for much less money. Do not assume that any kind of de-static tool or technique, no matter how costly, is a permanent cure. You have to de-stat prior to each play, in an environment such as yours. Then you have to de-stat again, when you flip the LP over.

Good call on a humidifier @audioquest4life i use a Vesync here and beyond static it also keeps your skin and throat from getting dry!

I had a Zerostat in the 70's didn't realize they were still around. I think I'll start with a small humidifier. Thank you.

" I have a VPI prime table with the stock felt mat. The static is so bad that the mat clings to record when I remove it."

Gasp!

A VPI user that uses a MAT?!! 

                    It's all about the humidity, during Winter!

https://www.vinylmeplease.com/blogs/magazine/how-to-deal-with-static-electricity-and-your-records?srsltid=AfmBOorWtWO4r_Ng4QFXbuLOg2hUPEJr4sZwqlOudkOXncSIx4etlklJ

Gruv Glide totally kills static. I have posted about this several times if you want to search. Makes playing records much more enjoyable if you have major static issues. 

I bought my Zerostat in 1972, but last year I bought a static charge meter to determine whether the zerostat still works. It does.

@lewm which static meter did you get? Cost?

Zidon FMX003.

Bought the FMX003 on eBay. The cost varies per the vendors, but not more than $250, probably less than $200. Comes from China. Sorry, I did not originally notice that you also asked about price.  There is an FMX004 that costs more, because it reads out to 33kV or some such very high value. The highest charge I have read on an LP that I deliberately charged up by yanking it out of its paper sleeve is about 12kV.  The Zerostat reduced that to about 0.1kV, which is about as low as the sensitivity of the meter when zeroed out.