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Came here to say the same thing. This whole article could be summarized as "I was pampered growing up. I was pampered through school. I was so pampered I had no
by bphogan 11y ago
Came here to say the same thing. This whole article could be summarized as "I was pampered growing up. I was pampered through school. I was so pampered I had no concept of what things actually cost because everything was paid for me."
It's quite a shock when you start noticing that $3 bottles of water start adding up.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoUnless you are in a country without potable water (like China where a bottle of water really is just 24 cents), then by all means, that bottle of water is a good investment.
- jrowley 11y agoOr if you live in Flint, Michigan or any other number of places in the US that don't have potable water.
- EGreg 11y agoI highly doubt the poster lives in Flint.
- PakG1 11y agoYou could live like locals and just boil the water. It doesn't get rid of everything in there, but it's better than drinking straight from the tap. I run mine through a Brita filter first. I know that the Brita doesn't actually do much, but it tastes much better at least.
- brianwawok 11y agoDepends where you live. I have fine tapwater and drink it, but if I was even 1% worried - I would pony up for the 5 gallon jugs of bottled water. Life is too short to save $10 a month and die of cancer.
- PakG1 11y agoExcept my friends tell me that the big water dispenser jug services are actually not trustworthy. Heck, this is a country that is currently experiencing a big vaccine safety scandal that's hard to imagine happening in many other countries. Then again, I wouldn't have imagined Flint's water problem to be as bad as it is, but something similar once happened in Canada too in a small town that found e.coli in their water. BTW, if it's not clear, my comments are regarding China.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoYa, avoid the big water dispensers. We just buy boxes of bottled water now.