With the recent popularity of "going green" and all of the people jumping on the band wagon, I decided to do my part. Well, sorta.
Mainly, I'm just cheap. But, heck if that makes me an environmentalist, I'll take my brownie point thank you.
Usually we always have a case of bottled water in the outside fridge mainly used for road trips, hot summer days when the tap water is just to darn yucky to drink and sitting on the nightstand in our room.
You know, it's the middle of the night, you wake up thirsty as all get out and you reach for that glorious bottle. So refreshing and wonderful to quench that all powerful 2am thirst. Dramatic? Yes. True? Even more.
We've been out of water bottles for about three weeks now. Yes, I am frugal. Yes, I am perfectly willing to drink tap water. Yes, I keep forgetting it at Costco.
The other night as I was climbing in to bed Randy asked if we were still out. "Oh honey, I'll go get you a nice big cup of ice water, much more refreshing than those awful environmental hazards". Maybe if I play the green card he won't question my miserly ways or memory problems.
After taking a few sips out of the cup he tried to decide where to set it down for the 2am swig. Well, first you have to hope no flies land in it, that would be a real bummer. Or spiders. We splat at least two a night running across the ceiling right over our bed. Bet that cup of ice water seems refreshing to them too. Hmmm.
"Babe, when my pager goes off in the morning I'll knock the thing all over". Do I four or five children? "I'll take it and put it on my nighstand, you always say you're like a bull in china shop". We giggle, I put the water on a towel on my side.
I proceed to turn off the light, take the clip out of my hair, set it down on the nightstand and listen to water pouring down the sides and back of the nightstand and all over my books. The sound of the water literally pouring off the dresser was quite noisy in the dark room; I ran to get a towel and mopped up the mess.
I'm still not sure which is worse on the environment. Adding to greenhouse gas effect from cleaning up the mess and washing the towel I used (the dresser was a little dusty, so I couldn't exactly reuse the thing) or the measly plastic bottle I should have had.
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I say buy the bottles. Sure, we should all be "green" but does that mean we have to drink water that tastes green or spill it in places that later turn green? No, I think not! Buy the bottles and if you're feeling guilty, recycle. Heck, don't you save water by not having to wash the towel that is now dirty from cleaning up the spill?
Ahh hah hah!
Look, I know some people on the 'inside' at Costco. I can hook you up.
And, consider shopping for water bottles at Costco as job security for your sister. ; )
Piper-my point exactly! :-)
Here's an idear, go get a danged drink in the bathroom located 6 feet away! Sounds like something that would set dad all a flutter. You know he keeps 5 bottles at a time near his bed and his bathroom is about 6 feet away too:}~
Weellll, if it makes going bottle-free easier, I was JUST reading the latest report on bottled water from ewg.org and it says that out of the 10 bottled water brands they tested they found an alarming array of contaminants including fertilizer residue, industrial solvents and even caffeine.
Jenn-ewwww! Thanks for the info :-)!
Could be worse, could be the "recycled" water:)
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