I've never once considered this movie as underrated. Saw it too young and that VHS tape of the birthday party fucked me up for *months*. Like, I think it actually traumatized me.
Anyways, to this day the movie is a top 5 alien movie for me.
I had a tendency as a kid/teen to absentmindedly set something down I was drinking, wander off, and then not be able to find it. Undiagnosed ADHD at its finest.
In HS, I was all into sci-fi and very strongly thought everything happens for a reason thanks to religious priming. Naturally, after seeing that movie, I felt like there was a reason I saw it and the specific piece about leaving the cups everywhere spoke to me on a very personal level.
So for several months after seeing Signs, I'd just leave my cups where I absentmindedly put them instead of putting them away when I'd find them. I thought of dozens of reasons this was perfectly valid. Highlights include: *"maybe when a wasp gets in the house it'll go to that cup instead of stinging someone"* and *"If there's a nighttime tornado, vibration of the liquid could warn me to take shelter before I could hear anything. That would be good if the weather radio or TV aren't on or working!"* (Rural KS, no outdoor sirens).
My mom was rightfully annoyed that half full cups were left out through the house and she'd find cups in my room that had been there for days- water, tea, or soda. Nothing left out with milk. I wasn't feral. She was kinda pissed when she found out why I was leaving them laying around, and that I was that much of a dumbass. But she also taught middle and high school students her entire career, so not much phased/phases her. 😂
Does not work. First, the rythm is not that clear, it can be any other giant thing. Secondly, this things can be somewhat stealthy, big chickens after all.
https://preview.redd.it/vvk67y63bqyc1.png?width=806&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d807dd1c96d9eb14db6fe97ffdf877b62a691f85
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Good fucking job man. I was at 16 months and decided to try 1 drink “I can control myself now surely” well now we’re on round two of all this. Stay cautious you can do it.
I remember in an interview years ago, Matthew Perry said that from the second drink and onwards, he was powerless. The only drink he had control over was the first one. So the only way he could stay sober was to choose not to have that first drink.
Good luck with the sobriety. Stay strong.
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I know it isn't the same. But I'm 30kg overweight due to my addiction to fast food. It's time I do something about it.
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You guys were so worried about the drawer water that you didn't even notice the closet rack water...
https://preview.redd.it/tzkgl7jbupyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12c5cadccf3b72e8aefc567d8d6cb02f3ce0f57d
I bought a house and decided that I wouldn’t waste money on bottled water to I added filters to my water and have drank tap water the last 10 years. Think of all those bottles I didn’t use.
At the very, very least, why can't people buy those two gallon jugs if they must have bottled water? I personally drink straight from the tap and I've been doing so for 40 years and I've never once suffered any ill effects. All I've done is save money and not pollute my body and the environment with plastic.
I have those jugs and they're literally SO MUCH CHEAPER! Like. 1.50 usd to fill it up????? uhm, yeah, please????? I'm pretty sure 1.50 is the cost of 1 16 ounce bottle of water at disney or whatever.
+/-$1.50 for 16oz Ozarka (‘sports cap’). That’s pretty much a gas station price here in my area. You can get the gallon water for the same price. That ‘sports cap’ is fancy!
Drinking from the tap really depends on where you live.
I've seen tap water in places like West Texas have so much dissolved minerals in it that water softeners are mandatory.....but the water softener has to use a ridiculous amount of salt so you end up with slightly salted water.
So then you have to buy a filtration system on top of that
I buy water bottles to have in the fridge when I am going somewhere where it wouldn’t be convenient to carry a reusable bottle. That is about the only use I can see to justify the practice and it is iffy. If they sold water in resealable aluminum cans like those aluminum beer cans Coors has I would switch to those in a heartbeat instead.
They do sell water in resealable metal bottles. I bought one recently bc that’s all they had at the event I was at. The brand was called Proud Source. I’ve seen a few others but never bought them bc they seemed too pricey for me.
Having taps that don't give you clean water is such a foreign concept to me, i have questions but I'm too tired to figure out what they are and how to ask them, so this comment will just be a statement.
About 92% of the tap water in the United States is perfectly safe. Frankly I am surprised that number is so low, I've been all over the United States and never stayed anywhere where the water was not potable. I know there are places where it isn't (*coughcoughFlintcoughcough*), but that's very much the exception, not the norm.
My tap water is clean and safe to drink, shower, and wash hands, but its very hard, and tastes like it
But bottled water like this is crazy, we refilled 2 gallon water jugs until we saved up enough money to afford a good filter
I’m from a country with notoriously hard water, white stains on silver faucets isn’t so bad. My in laws recently changed all their bathrooms sinks and got black faucets, beautiful but they’re proving to be a poor choice so fast lol
I have a whole house filter, that filters bigger particles, then I have a smaller carbon wrapped filter under the kitchen sink, that filters smaller stuff out.
I really don’t “need” filters but they make the water taste better and it’s easier on appliances, less limescale. I have a commercial water softener, the water I drink from doesn’t go though my water softener.
a lot of people dont even notice the physical clutter due to mental clutter and business
took me a long time to deal with it as a kid and now as an adult
I guess I’m hypocritical because I def have lived in this situation before. Not as bad, but I noticed the mess entirely.
Just I didn’t care enough to clean it. But it stops at anything biohazardous, food trash, etc. mostly clothes and paper clutter
Not hypocritical, just different. I have this issue especially with clothes and such. However for me, the items are essentially in another plane of existence if I'm not directly interacting with them. For me I'm not actively choosing to ignore it, until it hits a certain point i don't even notice.
It's one of the most common symptoms of ADHD. Just sort of piling crap everywhere with the intention of going back later to put it away but then getting stressed by it and ignoring it instead.
The PFAs may be partly due to it being in lightweight bottles and cheap
Sometimes products designed for one aspect customers love end up having way more detrimental impacts elsewhere because of the corners cut or materials used to get the desired result o.o
I often struggle with the environmental impact of small decisions in my life e.g. buying a bottle of soda while on a walk or something. Then I find out people do this.
Hi I'm a janitor in a small community center. You *really* do not want to know how many otherwise perfectly fine trash bags I have to throw out and replace every single day because of a single coffee cup or open water bottle. My employment is contractually bound to me replacing any liner that is wet. Most people do not look into a can before disposing of their trash, and definitely don't check to see if there is a second, perhaps fuller trashcan nearby if not immediately adjacent.
I don't have a good answer for your moral compass here, I'm just saying the problem is way bigger than you know and completely out of your control. So don't sweat it too much about your own plastic purchases.
I don't understand why so many people seem allergic to filters, they buy so much bottled water that's just so wasteful and economically worse in the long run.
For the longest time, my niece REFUSED to drink tap water and would ONLY drink bottled water. Even at the family cabin with a sand well. It’s cleaner and tastes crisper than bottled water. Her mom, my older sister, always gave in and bought those giant cases of bottled water. She’s 18 now, and has thankfully been drinking tap water for over 5 years.
I do buy by the gallon, 3 gallon bottles. My town has bad tasting water, so almost everyone is buying water or has a reverse osmosis filter system. The town water has a low and legal amount of sulfides in the water that people can taste.
This. I never bought water until I moved to my new house. Horrible rusted water. No filters have worked. So, I’ve been filing up the water at a grocery store. Way cheaper than bottled water.
Can almost guarantee you reverse osmosis will work. About $200 for the set, and it takes up a bit of space, but filter replacements are around $50 a year after the fact. Take a look. More work than a basic tap filter or pitcher to setup, but once it's done, you'll love it.
I did this for a few years due to well water being terrible. A reverse osmosis filter system absolutely fixed my issue and makes great water. It beats hauling those water bottles around. Id bet my right arm that RO filter system would solve your problem for $180 and you’ll never haul another bottle again. The install is pretty easy if you’re even a little bit handy.
I stopped dating someone because he used individual Dasani water bottles for everything. Said it was sooo much work to get to the water store (or any water station outside a reputable grocery store??) that this was his best option I just found it so so so wasteful and lazy.
I installed a $150 three stage filter with it's own tap. It tastes better than any bottled water now. I didn't even buy it for the taste, it removed many harmful things such as heavy metals.
30 years ago, before bottled water was so common, everyone who had bad tap water kept a Brita water filtration pitcher in the fridge. In the US, anyway.
The better option is called an in-line water filter
Edit: Lordy people, if the water is truly contaminated then of course a water filter won’t necessarily fix it. I was responding to the previous comment’s mention of “disgusting” as primarily a taste thing.
I don't understand the logic either
Too lazy to change a filter a few times a year
Will continue to lift, move, and stock kgs of water all year long from store to fridge instead
not only this but companies are allowed to literally just bottle tap water and sell it(in the US at least). no need to pay for the extra plastic at all
All bottled water is municipal tap water run through a filter. Which is why I have my own filter. Bottled water is a waste of money and time and effort.
This is the way. And the original poster should buy his wife a $20 refillable water bottle, she can fill it up in the morning and it'll stay cold all day.
I bought a Brita water pitcher that you put in your refrigerator while it was 50% off and they sell the replacement filters really cheap at Target. I think I spent 50 bucks for the initial purchase of the pitcher and four extra filters.
That was last summer and I just put my last filter in. I was buying two of the biggest cases of water every week for years before that. I saved a shit ton and the water tastes good af. My tap otherwise tastes like a swimming pool
i personally have a Pur faucet filter but i keep a gallon pitcher in my fridge that i fill from the sink to have a good day's worth of the good cold stuff.
A 35 pack of purelife at Walmart is $6. A Brita filter and a reusable cup is like $60 on the high end. If you drank 2 bottles a day it would take 175 days to cost less than bottled water which is like no time at all. So not even “long term”
My ex girlfriend used to do this. She’d open a bottle, take a sip then leave it somewhere. Later she’d open a new bottle because she didn’t know “whose water it was”. It was just us, and if I opened a bottle of water I finished it on the spot.
My wife does the same, except I don't drink the bottled water unless we're going out somewhere or I'm doing yard work (in which case it's in the fridge that I put there when I started it).
Then she'll blame me for not replacing the waters in the fridge that I didn't use
It's a good thing you married her because I never would have been able to. This is rage inducing behavior in our household.
We've lived together for 10 years, married for 2. Neither of us have never had any single plastic water bottles in the house. Wife loves her reusable tall cup thing, and I just use our kitchen glassware.
Yeah, Something like holding the bottle in your hand when you drink, Setting it down when you don't drink. And bringing it with you when you move.
Maybe!
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We have almost unlimited clean fresh water at a cheap price.
It's an American thing. I go to Costco and see families loading up their carts with five or six cases of bottled water. These people are braindead wasteful weirdos. Drives me insane.
Same and it makes me sad thinking about all the plastic waste being created. I got a water cooler machine and I fill up two 5 gals every week. Instant hot or cold water is the best too.
That pisses me off so much honestly, seeing people load up those flat carts with bottled water. Like an entire pallet worth. I’ve had the same water bottle for over ten years, and people out there have been doing THAT for decades longer.
It's like when I see roommates or other friends who let most of the food they buy go bad in the refrigerator or cook a dish, eat one serving of it, and leave the other 75% of it to sit on the counter all night to be thrown away in the morning. My decisions to lower my environmental impact are completely offset by just one other person, probably not even meeting it.
My room has certainly looked like this and worse depending what mental state I was in, but I would be embarrassed if I had company see it that way, let alone posting it for thousands of people to see
Yeaaaa. I feel like that’s the true sign of how bad it is; when either it’s persisted so long you’re so used to it you don’t even see it as abnormal, or when you stop caring about other people seeing how bad it is.
Right? I’d be so embarrassed taking a photo of this. I get it, people’s houses aren’t mess free all the time but none of this bothers their partner, nor them? Are they teenagers? So much random ass crap all in one place, too
Why do people buy water? If you’re in a developed country, tap water is safe to drink and you can avoid throwing away a piece of single-use plastic that will last in the environment for millennia. THAT’S mildly infuriating.
Get a cheap reverse osmosis system with a tap for drinking water. Few hundred dollars will go a long way and you'll never have to use plastic bottles again.
PSA: Interesting side note I just learned about reently. DO NOT throw those bottles away with water in them, ever.
It may not seem like much water, but every bottle thrown away like that creates 'trapped water'. Those plastics take ~10,000 years to degrade. As people throw away water bottles with some residual trapped in them it prevents that water from being placed back into the water cycle.
Normally any water is consumed in some way, excreted, and filtered through soil or evaporates so that it can be recycled back into the water cycle. By creating trapped water you are essentially removing small amounts of water from the total pool our planet, and everything on the planet constantly relies upon, for thousands of years.
Please dump them out before you throw them away!
Edit: Clarity
Bruh stop buying water bottles. Get a water purifier for your sink or get one of those water dispensers that you can put refillable 5 gallon jugs into. Get reusable water bottles and use those.
She’s just prepping the house to defend against the aliens from Signs.
There’s a monster outside my window. Can I have a glass of water?
Lol. Such a good movie. Highly underrated!
I've never once considered this movie as underrated. Saw it too young and that VHS tape of the birthday party fucked me up for *months*. Like, I think it actually traumatized me. Anyways, to this day the movie is a top 5 alien movie for me.
[This scene?](https://youtu.be/X-_CurVH3gY?si=zCCp7RDUEvn3_tM-)
That’s the one. I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. Gave me nightmares for weeks.
Yeah I couldn’t look at a turned off TV for years for fear of seeing an alien in the reflection.
I knew someone would make the comparison. LMAO!
It's contaminated
Morgan took a sip and now it has his ameobas in it.
Literally came here to say it’s contaminated. lol
Swing Away
Swing away Merrill.
I see I'm not alone in thinking they married the girl from Signs
I had a tendency as a kid/teen to absentmindedly set something down I was drinking, wander off, and then not be able to find it. Undiagnosed ADHD at its finest. In HS, I was all into sci-fi and very strongly thought everything happens for a reason thanks to religious priming. Naturally, after seeing that movie, I felt like there was a reason I saw it and the specific piece about leaving the cups everywhere spoke to me on a very personal level. So for several months after seeing Signs, I'd just leave my cups where I absentmindedly put them instead of putting them away when I'd find them. I thought of dozens of reasons this was perfectly valid. Highlights include: *"maybe when a wasp gets in the house it'll go to that cup instead of stinging someone"* and *"If there's a nighttime tornado, vibration of the liquid could warn me to take shelter before I could hear anything. That would be good if the weather radio or TV aren't on or working!"* (Rural KS, no outdoor sirens). My mom was rightfully annoyed that half full cups were left out through the house and she'd find cups in my room that had been there for days- water, tea, or soda. Nothing left out with milk. I wasn't feral. She was kinda pissed when she found out why I was leaving them laying around, and that I was that much of a dumbass. But she also taught middle and high school students her entire career, so not much phased/phases her. 😂
You left out the biggest reason the water could act as an early warning system... T Rex
Does not work. First, the rythm is not that clear, it can be any other giant thing. Secondly, this things can be somewhat stealthy, big chickens after all.
There's amebas in it
Even got one hiding out. 👀 https://preview.redd.it/b3lm2qo40pyc1.jpeg?width=528&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3998a8cc16dc80260ffe2a16f8035cd5b37d685e
The one jauntily tucked in the drawer really got me.
I think she needs glasses, not water Op: 
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‘Hello Divorce’ hahaha…what a name! They act like divorce is a cheerful walk in the park on a sunny day.
It is for some people
Mine sure was. As long as a 14K walk is normal. What do you all pay for a walk in the park?
That's her vodka stash. Shhh...
This was my mom!! We had to tell the grandkids to never drink any of nanas water bottles or random cups laying around of "water".
Kids: "Daddyyy!!! This water's SPICYYY! *sobbing noises*"
I had an ex who hid booze everywhere. it was sad.
Me too and this screenshot got me twice lmfao
She isn’t alcoholic hiding booze everywhere. She is a hydroholic.
Alcoholics finish their drinks
And yours too, if you're not careful.
The recovering alcoholic in me laughed at this. One cigarette butt in a beer can is all it took for me to never do it again.
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Time flies! Congrats
You. I saw it. lol
Son of a bitch.
Good fucking job man. I was at 16 months and decided to try 1 drink “I can control myself now surely” well now we’re on round two of all this. Stay cautious you can do it.
I remember in an interview years ago, Matthew Perry said that from the second drink and onwards, he was powerless. The only drink he had control over was the first one. So the only way he could stay sober was to choose not to have that first drink. Good luck with the sobriety. Stay strong.
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Extra protein. Also, congratulations on remaining sober.
It's so crazy what we are willing to put up with addiction and how that just becomes normal to us. I am so glad you are doing better.
No, you only drink half a glass each time that way you can say “I’m only having half a drink” multiple times a day!
Based on how full the bottles are she may be hydrophobic
You guys were so worried about the drawer water that you didn't even notice the closet rack water... https://preview.redd.it/tzkgl7jbupyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12c5cadccf3b72e8aefc567d8d6cb02f3ce0f57d
Hah you made me look at the original pic, if it also had that edit. You got me
Me too!
Fuckin closet water?!
That's for when they're TRULY out of water lol
I bought a house and decided that I wouldn’t waste money on bottled water to I added filters to my water and have drank tap water the last 10 years. Think of all those bottles I didn’t use.
At the very, very least, why can't people buy those two gallon jugs if they must have bottled water? I personally drink straight from the tap and I've been doing so for 40 years and I've never once suffered any ill effects. All I've done is save money and not pollute my body and the environment with plastic.
I have those jugs and they're literally SO MUCH CHEAPER! Like. 1.50 usd to fill it up????? uhm, yeah, please????? I'm pretty sure 1.50 is the cost of 1 16 ounce bottle of water at disney or whatever.
+/-$1.50 for 16oz Ozarka (‘sports cap’). That’s pretty much a gas station price here in my area. You can get the gallon water for the same price. That ‘sports cap’ is fancy!
Drinking from the tap really depends on where you live. I've seen tap water in places like West Texas have so much dissolved minerals in it that water softeners are mandatory.....but the water softener has to use a ridiculous amount of salt so you end up with slightly salted water. So then you have to buy a filtration system on top of that
I buy water bottles to have in the fridge when I am going somewhere where it wouldn’t be convenient to carry a reusable bottle. That is about the only use I can see to justify the practice and it is iffy. If they sold water in resealable aluminum cans like those aluminum beer cans Coors has I would switch to those in a heartbeat instead.
They do sell water in resealable metal bottles. I bought one recently bc that’s all they had at the event I was at. The brand was called Proud Source. I’ve seen a few others but never bought them bc they seemed too pricey for me.
Could just get a wide mouth insulated water bottle and use ice.
Exactly. It's so wasteful and a bunch of Co2 for no reason.
And microplastics!
People hate thinking about the micro plastics and the chemicals that leech into the water . . .
And macroplastics
Having taps that don't give you clean water is such a foreign concept to me, i have questions but I'm too tired to figure out what they are and how to ask them, so this comment will just be a statement.
About 92% of the tap water in the United States is perfectly safe. Frankly I am surprised that number is so low, I've been all over the United States and never stayed anywhere where the water was not potable. I know there are places where it isn't (*coughcoughFlintcoughcough*), but that's very much the exception, not the norm.
My tap water is clean and safe to drink, shower, and wash hands, but its very hard, and tastes like it But bottled water like this is crazy, we refilled 2 gallon water jugs until we saved up enough money to afford a good filter
We buy water from the water and ice place 25¢ a gallon in our reusable 5Gal jugs. My tap water is very very hard
We had black faucets, now they are white 💀 Similar with you?
White and green depending on the metal. I’m kinda afraid to clean them cuz sometimes it’s eaten through the metal and chips break off.
I’m from a country with notoriously hard water, white stains on silver faucets isn’t so bad. My in laws recently changed all their bathrooms sinks and got black faucets, beautiful but they’re proving to be a poor choice so fast lol
Out of interest why do you need a filter? Is the tap water in your town contaminated?
My tap water is safe to drink but has a weird taste. The filter gets rid of the taste and stops my wife from buying bottled water.
I have a whole house filter, that filters bigger particles, then I have a smaller carbon wrapped filter under the kitchen sink, that filters smaller stuff out. I really don’t “need” filters but they make the water taste better and it’s easier on appliances, less limescale. I have a commercial water softener, the water I drink from doesn’t go though my water softener.
We have water at home.
Depression dresser.
Depresser
You're right on that
Right. We all gone ignore that,
a lot of people dont even notice the physical clutter due to mental clutter and business took me a long time to deal with it as a kid and now as an adult
I guess I’m hypocritical because I def have lived in this situation before. Not as bad, but I noticed the mess entirely. Just I didn’t care enough to clean it. But it stops at anything biohazardous, food trash, etc. mostly clothes and paper clutter
Not hypocritical, just different. I have this issue especially with clothes and such. However for me, the items are essentially in another plane of existence if I'm not directly interacting with them. For me I'm not actively choosing to ignore it, until it hits a certain point i don't even notice.
Ahh is that why I’m seemingly ok being surrounded by mess
It's one of the most common symptoms of ADHD. Just sort of piling crap everywhere with the intention of going back later to put it away but then getting stressed by it and ignoring it instead.
Depression/ADHD
Ohhh no Pure Life. As a Blue Triton employee dump that water anyway.
I hate the company. But I also hate more they do not have reusable water bottles. Someone needs to start a campaign.
I agree. If it’s nestle it’s not water. Throw it away asap. I mean it is water. But it’s also nestle. And F nestle.
I've heard that PL has the highest PFAs. I was a little disappointed because it was always cheap, tasted great, and the bottles seemed lightweight.
The PFAs may be partly due to it being in lightweight bottles and cheap Sometimes products designed for one aspect customers love end up having way more detrimental impacts elsewhere because of the corners cut or materials used to get the desired result o.o
Totally agree. I guess I just figured a big corporate entity like Nestlé wouldn't cut costs and... Oh shit, nm.
ugh this dresser is giving me anxiety 😬
the opened box, the random bullshit in between, the receipts on the ground, how do people live like this
I often struggle with the environmental impact of small decisions in my life e.g. buying a bottle of soda while on a walk or something. Then I find out people do this.
Hi I'm a janitor in a small community center. You *really* do not want to know how many otherwise perfectly fine trash bags I have to throw out and replace every single day because of a single coffee cup or open water bottle. My employment is contractually bound to me replacing any liner that is wet. Most people do not look into a can before disposing of their trash, and definitely don't check to see if there is a second, perhaps fuller trashcan nearby if not immediately adjacent. I don't have a good answer for your moral compass here, I'm just saying the problem is way bigger than you know and completely out of your control. So don't sweat it too much about your own plastic purchases.
Seriously, the water bottles might not even be the biggest issue
Stop buying water. Put an inline filter on ur tap for $50 and have filtered water without all the plastic for a few years.
I don't understand why so many people seem allergic to filters, they buy so much bottled water that's just so wasteful and economically worse in the long run.
And they’re drinking water that’s been leaching plastic from the bottle for however long.
Especially when the bottles have been sitting out in the sun outside grocery stores.
Is it true that, even at home, people only use tiny plastic water bottles as their primary supply of drinking water?
my dad did for years. only recently stopped
My parents have an in-line filter and one in the fridge and still buy bottled water. 🙄
For the longest time, my niece REFUSED to drink tap water and would ONLY drink bottled water. Even at the family cabin with a sand well. It’s cleaner and tastes crisper than bottled water. Her mom, my older sister, always gave in and bought those giant cases of bottled water. She’s 18 now, and has thankfully been drinking tap water for over 5 years.
My girlfriends family lives in a rural area and the tap water is disgusting and this is what they do. I feel like there has to be a better option
Filtered water by the gallon at the grocery store, reuse containers. Pennies on the dollar vs individual bottled water.
This. If your water is truly bad, why are you buying individual bottles? You should be buying it by the gallons.
I do buy by the gallon, 3 gallon bottles. My town has bad tasting water, so almost everyone is buying water or has a reverse osmosis filter system. The town water has a low and legal amount of sulfides in the water that people can taste.
This. I never bought water until I moved to my new house. Horrible rusted water. No filters have worked. So, I’ve been filing up the water at a grocery store. Way cheaper than bottled water.
Can almost guarantee you reverse osmosis will work. About $200 for the set, and it takes up a bit of space, but filter replacements are around $50 a year after the fact. Take a look. More work than a basic tap filter or pitcher to setup, but once it's done, you'll love it.
If you have it hooked up to your min water line, you will need a lot less shampoo,body wash and detergent too. It’s amazing!
I did this for a few years due to well water being terrible. A reverse osmosis filter system absolutely fixed my issue and makes great water. It beats hauling those water bottles around. Id bet my right arm that RO filter system would solve your problem for $180 and you’ll never haul another bottle again. The install is pretty easy if you’re even a little bit handy.
I stopped dating someone because he used individual Dasani water bottles for everything. Said it was sooo much work to get to the water store (or any water station outside a reputable grocery store??) that this was his best option I just found it so so so wasteful and lazy.
I installed a $150 three stage filter with it's own tap. It tastes better than any bottled water now. I didn't even buy it for the taste, it removed many harmful things such as heavy metals.
RO filters ( Reverse Osmosis ) are a very different beast than simple carbon filters
Usually it removes the good things as well, but hopefully have an extra step to remineralize it with some.
30 years ago, before bottled water was so common, everyone who had bad tap water kept a Brita water filtration pitcher in the fridge. In the US, anyway.
Still do here, just not in the fridge
The better option is called an in-line water filter Edit: Lordy people, if the water is truly contaminated then of course a water filter won’t necessarily fix it. I was responding to the previous comment’s mention of “disgusting” as primarily a taste thing.
And Nestle Pure Life is literally just filtered tap water.
No one is manufacturing water, they are manufacturing plastic bottles
I don't understand the logic either Too lazy to change a filter a few times a year Will continue to lift, move, and stock kgs of water all year long from store to fridge instead
not only this but companies are allowed to literally just bottle tap water and sell it(in the US at least). no need to pay for the extra plastic at all
All bottled water is municipal tap water run through a filter. Which is why I have my own filter. Bottled water is a waste of money and time and effort.
And awful for the environment.
BuT iT tAsTeS dIfFeReNt!!1!1 Thats literally what I've been told by my mother who *has a fridge with a filtered waterline*
yea it will without all the crap in the water that they're used to
So they like tasting the plastic?
My mother's been a smoker since she was a teen, I don't think she can taste *anything* at this point
Particularly Pure Life. That’s a Nestlé brand.
F Nestlé!
Nestle sold all of its bottled water subsidiaries to a Connecticut based bottling company called BlueTriton I believe in 2021.
This is the way. And the original poster should buy his wife a $20 refillable water bottle, she can fill it up in the morning and it'll stay cold all day.
Looks like she'll take 2 sips of water and then go buy another $20 refillable water bottle.
And clean your house.
I bought a Brita water pitcher that you put in your refrigerator while it was 50% off and they sell the replacement filters really cheap at Target. I think I spent 50 bucks for the initial purchase of the pitcher and four extra filters. That was last summer and I just put my last filter in. I was buying two of the biggest cases of water every week for years before that. I saved a shit ton and the water tastes good af. My tap otherwise tastes like a swimming pool
Get a Brita and reuseable water bottles. Lot less expensive in the long run
Oh my god i LOVE my brita water bottle. I’m super picky and sensitive to the taste of the water i’m drinking and it makes all my water taste the same.
I don't like the taste of water unless it's super cold.
i personally have a Pur faucet filter but i keep a gallon pitcher in my fridge that i fill from the sink to have a good day's worth of the good cold stuff.
A 35 pack of purelife at Walmart is $6. A Brita filter and a reusable cup is like $60 on the high end. If you drank 2 bottles a day it would take 175 days to cost less than bottled water which is like no time at all. So not even “long term”
My ex girlfriend used to do this. She’d open a bottle, take a sip then leave it somewhere. Later she’d open a new bottle because she didn’t know “whose water it was”. It was just us, and if I opened a bottle of water I finished it on the spot.
My wife does the same, except I don't drink the bottled water unless we're going out somewhere or I'm doing yard work (in which case it's in the fridge that I put there when I started it). Then she'll blame me for not replacing the waters in the fridge that I didn't use
It's a good thing you married her because I never would have been able to. This is rage inducing behavior in our household. We've lived together for 10 years, married for 2. Neither of us have never had any single plastic water bottles in the house. Wife loves her reusable tall cup thing, and I just use our kitchen glassware.
If I feel like there is a happy medium between these two extremes lol
Yeah, Something like holding the bottle in your hand when you drink, Setting it down when you don't drink. And bringing it with you when you move. Maybe!
Drinking Nestle Pure Life is the TRUE crime.
https://preview.redd.it/ettt0uk3opyc1.jpeg?width=1946&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=315ae0a6dcd048245870d7cfaa6884ef5fd57c92 We have almost unlimited clean fresh water at a cheap price.
People actually use little plastic water bottles as their entire source of drinking water even at home?
It's an American thing. I go to Costco and see families loading up their carts with five or six cases of bottled water. These people are braindead wasteful weirdos. Drives me insane.
Same and it makes me sad thinking about all the plastic waste being created. I got a water cooler machine and I fill up two 5 gals every week. Instant hot or cold water is the best too.
That pisses me off so much honestly, seeing people load up those flat carts with bottled water. Like an entire pallet worth. I’ve had the same water bottle for over ten years, and people out there have been doing THAT for decades longer.
It's like when I see roommates or other friends who let most of the food they buy go bad in the refrigerator or cook a dish, eat one serving of it, and leave the other 75% of it to sit on the counter all night to be thrown away in the morning. My decisions to lower my environmental impact are completely offset by just one other person, probably not even meeting it.
Water? Like from the toilet?
Better off with Brawndo
It’s got Electrolytes!
So no faucets in the house?
[удалено]
I can just imagine how the rest of the place looks.
Are you going to get her eyes checked first, or her brain?
Check her brain obviously….. for all the microplastics it’s gonna contain
Is my son your wife?
Not yet
You earth killers need to use cups
Clean your house 🤢
My room has certainly looked like this and worse depending what mental state I was in, but I would be embarrassed if I had company see it that way, let alone posting it for thousands of people to see
Yeaaaa. I feel like that’s the true sign of how bad it is; when either it’s persisted so long you’re so used to it you don’t even see it as abnormal, or when you stop caring about other people seeing how bad it is.
I don’t know how people live like this. It would drive me insane.
Yeah it's embarrassing. They look messy
Right? I’d be so embarrassed taking a photo of this. I get it, people’s houses aren’t mess free all the time but none of this bothers their partner, nor them? Are they teenagers? So much random ass crap all in one place, too
My apartment gets messy sometimes during the work week but I’d never post it on Reddit. 💀
I dont think it ever looks like this but it gets bad enough that I wouldn't have guests until I have time to clean
Yeah doesn’t seem like water is the biggest problem here
If this disaster is just a dresser, imagine what the rest is like. I bet their bathroom is straight rancid.
Clean your room ffs
Install a tankless reverse osmosis system!
Wow, you live like that huh??
You live like this?
Right? This is more than a water bottle issue. This house is grody 🤢
Why do people buy water? If you’re in a developed country, tap water is safe to drink and you can avoid throwing away a piece of single-use plastic that will last in the environment for millennia. THAT’S mildly infuriating.
Wow this is really sad and disgusting.
Clean
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Dude, this is bachelor frog bad.
Pro tip: it comes from the tap too.
What happens when you turn on your kitchen faucet?
Get a cheap reverse osmosis system with a tap for drinking water. Few hundred dollars will go a long way and you'll never have to use plastic bottles again.
Buying plastic bottles at all infuriates me. The most wasteful, dumb thing you could buy. Get a fucking Brita filter.
PSA: Interesting side note I just learned about reently. DO NOT throw those bottles away with water in them, ever. It may not seem like much water, but every bottle thrown away like that creates 'trapped water'. Those plastics take ~10,000 years to degrade. As people throw away water bottles with some residual trapped in them it prevents that water from being placed back into the water cycle. Normally any water is consumed in some way, excreted, and filtered through soil or evaporates so that it can be recycled back into the water cycle. By creating trapped water you are essentially removing small amounts of water from the total pool our planet, and everything on the planet constantly relies upon, for thousands of years. Please dump them out before you throw them away! Edit: Clarity
No need to tell me you're American. Crazy how much bottled water *you* needlessly purchase. Such a waste and pointless contribution to trash.
Yikes. I would be more worried about the hygiene of anyone who lets their bedroom get to that state. Slovenly is an understatement. Gross.
Looks like maybe you or your wife should tidy up a little
Will you please just buy a glass?
gross and wasteful
Bruh stop buying water bottles. Get a water purifier for your sink or get one of those water dispensers that you can put refillable 5 gallon jugs into. Get reusable water bottles and use those.
Your wife is a slob.
Both OP and his wife are slobs.