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Originally Posted by selhars
I tend to debate whether doing something "worth it" when it comes to saving money.
For example, I saw (on a YouTube segment) a person talking about collecting the water that runs while she's waiting for the water to get warm.
Of course a person could get an instant hot water fixture. But like many people, I just let the water run a bit to warm up.
Well, in my case I'm wondering -- given the size of the sink, the way I have to capture the water to then funnel it into another container if the extra effort and time are worth it
And capturing the water slows my down getting ready in the morning....because while I'm capturing the running water -- I'm NOT brushing my teeth. And because I'm taking longer to get that done -- perhaps more water is running than if I just let it run and brushed my teeth and be done with it.
Even when I saw the video segment about this, I was asking my self is that really worth it?
This morning I tried it for the first time and captured ONE GALLON of water.
I suppose I'm wondering is a gallon a day worth it....and ....am I really willing to do these extra steps on a daily basis. And ALSO -- is a gallon a day worth it IF I'm only willing to do it twice or three times a week. And what about the "extra" water that's running while I'm doing all this -- that sort of negates -- at least in part -- the reason to even do all this.
Thoughts?
AND as the title asks -- as frugal as you are....have you had some frugality ideas you tried that for you -- you just didn't think were worth it....in time spent or money saved?
I know I don't:
-- drive as far as I used to to save on gas prices.
-- or shop and three to four supermarkets just to "shop sales." I used to go to additional supermarkets to get one or two things on sale. Unless they were non-perishables it got to not be worth it to me to spend most of my day grocery shopping and burning gas to go to the two additional stores to "save money."
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I'm sorry but rather SOON you may come to absolutely CHERISH that "wasted" one gallon of water
I'm in upstate NY, and with a single snowfall like the 43" we got over bare ground in Dec 15, '20 in one 19 hours, or recently the highest snowfall in a suburb of buffalo NY getting a WHOPPING 81.25" of snow over 3 days, you'd THINK we'd be exempt from "water supply issues '.
No, this May it was hot (90s) and VERY DRY. We mowed our grass literally 1 time in all of May, June and July. It was dirty, dusty and DEAD grass.
Not only that..but the entire eastern half of PA was in "drought mode".. AND all residents were asked to REDUCE water consumption by 3-6 gals A DAY.
Didn't matter if on city or private well.
Our municipal water is well-derived, with the nearby river is so low, that you can walk across it, though you'll get your ankles wet.
In August, we could tell they increased the chlorine in our taps. We figured it was drawing from the bottom of the well.
Lake Mead, feeding a lot more f southern communities and states is extremely low.
The great and wide Mississippi river was so low that people could walk across the bottom and NOT get their ankles wet!
We have drastically cut our consumption. We bought a "camper shower " and extra batteries.
When the plastic guts of the faucet fell out, we decided to try it out for lots of use.
Spouse takes long showers, and LL ets water run the entire time.
I've never been a long showerer, 10 mins at most. I get clean, and don't dilly-dally.
We found: I can shower in about 4 gals, spouse 10 gals.
I think the rating for a shower is 80 gals without flow restrictor, 60 gals with flow restrictor (we have one in the shower head.
Now I turn on, get wet, turn off, soap, then turn on to rinse. (Like military showers)
So, instead of approx. 120-160 gals for both of us..we use 15 GG als at most.
Any water left in the bucket...goes to other uses..for summer was to plants.
You can dump that gal in your toilet tank, after/as you flush for morning constitutional. Or put it in sink and add hot water to wash dishes.
We have back-up water, SHOULD we have a dryer drought season next spring.
So, yeah it's a pain in the tukus, but you might reconsider your waiste water in a totally different view.
(We have a basic limit of 5,000 gals -whether we actually use it or not.
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