Buying Water
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Homemaking on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:00 PM
I’m loving reading everyone’s responses to Rachel’s post about grocery shopping. There’s so much variety. Fun!
My own response is that I know it’s time for a grocery store trip when we’re running low on juice, milk, or water. But as I wrote that I realized it might seem weird. How can you run low on water, especially when you live in the Great Lakes State?
Here’s how: we buy water.
It is neither frugal nor green of us, but we buy all our drinking water. I estimate we go through about twenty gallons of spring water every month.
Our tap water is perfectly safe, and we use it for making coffee and tea and lemonade, for bathing and brushing our teeth, for everything except drinking plain. For that, we always reach for the jug of spring water.
In the first apartment we lived in after we got married, in the next town over, we used a filter pitcher for our water. It was fine. But when we moved into this house, even the filter couldn’t make the tap water taste palatable to me. So I started buying our grocery store’s brand of spring water by the gallon, and it was delicious. Suddenly I wanted to drink water again, many glasses of it per day.
Sometimes it does seem indulgent to me, buying water when we’ve got perfectly good, clean H₂O coming out of our tap. If we didn’t buy water, though, we’d just drink other things instead, which would be much more expensive. If it was ever absolutely necessary we could start drinking tap water, but this way we drink more water and enjoy it more.
When I’m visiting my parents in my hometown, where the water is pumped right out of the middle of a Great Lake, I draw many glasses of water from the tap and drink them happily. If we ever move back there, I’ll be happy to slash drinking water from my grocery budget. But in the meantime, I’m okay with buying it.
How does your local tap water taste? Do you like to drink it? Do you have a choice?
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