Cutting Water Bottles Out of Our Lives

[Shell B]

I use a 5 gallon water jug. It costs me 50 cents to refill it.

I use plastic bags at the store, though.  

I use enough to keep my little trash barrels lined. We use our canvas ones a lot too.

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We have a Brita pitcher filter, too, and are quite happy with it. My wife will avoid drinking tap water at virtually any cost, and even she is pleased with the purchase.

I spend a lot of time on the road for work and confess that I still occasionally buy a bottle of water for the trip because of the convenience. But I always feel guilty about it. I'm thinking of buying a canteen or something similar that I can fill at home.

I have a big one called "Aladdin." It holds like 20 oz. I love the damn thing.

[Joods]

I never understood why people seem to need to take water everywhere, have a drink before you leave home! Most people don't live in a desert!

Because some people like having something to quench their thirst should the need arise? 

I dunno - seems reasonable to me.

[brewer]

[Whateverist]

Tibs and I make some conscious efforts to be more sustainable and have less of an impact on the environment. However, like any good consumers, we fall short of the mark. One of the ways we did this was to go through cases of water bottles a week. I had some real anxiety about switching to tap, despite knowing that filtered water is perfectly safe. Knowing doesn't matter with anxiety. Anyway, I finally resolved this year to stop fucking around and switch to filtered water. We got a Brita pitcher filter, which is fine for us because there is no fluoride in our water supply to be filtered out (we get plenty from our dental hygiene routines). We bought some cool refillable, dishwasher-safe water bottles. Within a day of switching, I was completely used to the new routine. I fill my bottle, refill the pitcher and move on with my life. We do have to get some smaller bottles for sneaking into the movie theater, but we're great other than that.

My point is, if you're thinking of cutting water bottles out of your life, it's easy. It's cheap too. We paid a little over $30 for the pitcher, maybe $20 for water bottles and filters are around $10 (we need them about twice a year). I did the math and we've saved more than $100 this year. Next year, we'll save even more because we don't have to buy a pitcher. Oh, I forgot to mention that we don't have to recycle and we take the trash out less. It's an all-around win.

I'm down with the pitcher but always seem to lose fancy water bottles.  I end up re-using some fancy flavored water bottle the wife leaves in my car, you know the ones made of the better quality stuff.

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I have a big one called "Aladdin."

So many ways to go with this. I like to call mine Goliath. Sorry, my mind just naturally goes there.

[Shell B]

LOL, I didn’t name it. You should hit the dollar store for your water bottles if you lose them.

[Seraphina]

Bottled water is the biggest scam ever. I drink from the tap ( and get the side-eye from coworkers when I do that at work) and our local water district mails out reports specifying exactly what's in the water. In fact, a number of bottled water brands simply bottle their water from "municipal sources" - aka tap water.
The kid gets tap water in a reusable bottle in her lunch box.
We take reusable water bottles filled with tap water on hikes and the rare trip out into the world where drinkable water might not be available.
Funny how we humans got on ok for millennia without commercial bottled water, now it seems people will shrivel up and die without it.

-Teresa

[Joods]

I have a big one called "Aladdin."

So many ways to go with this.  I like to call mine Goliath.  Sorry, my mind just naturally goes there.  

Ha ha. Your mind is in the gutter like 99% of all the guys I know. Including my two sons.

[The Grand Nudger]

Bottled water is the biggest scam ever. I drink from the tap 

You wanna talk about side-eye...I'll bend down and drink water from a puddle if I'm thirsty, lol.  

Speaking of, the wife gives me side eye because I'm neurotic in separating our trash.  I have an ash bin, a clean rec bin, a dirty rec bin, a compost bin, and a trash bin.  I wash our garbage, before I bin it, lol.

She's like "dude, I get it, calm the fuck down, you're making me uncomfortable with the scrubbing of the pizza box"

[Seraphina]

Bottled water is the biggest scam ever. I drink from the tap 

You wanna talk about side-eye...I'll bend down and drink water from a puddle if I'm thirsty, lol.  

Speaking of, the wife gives me side eye because I'm neurotic in separating our trash.  I have an ash bin, a clean rec bin, a dirty rec bin, a compost bin, and a trash bin.  I wash our garbage, before I bin it, lol.

She's like "dude, I get it, calm the fuck down, your'e making me uncomfortable with the pizza box"

Um, yeah, that goes way beyond neurotic, Khem.

-Teresa

[The Grand Nudger]

I even left out a category out of embarrassment....the forgotten bin.  Trash I literally leave to rot in our basement. It gets rolled into compost.

(my basement is a hellhole full of snakes, like...knots of snakes. If I open the door I can see snakes. Sometimes snakes are in the house, and my gorgeous little sunflower MoMo has to take a piss with snakes behind the toilet....)

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-this is why we have cats....and beagles. Lots of cats...the beagles keep getting hit by cars and quarry trucks.