Just like you have little chores around your house each day, so do we. While we might not take our trash cans out to the top of the driveway on Tuesday and Friday mornings anymore (we toss our bags of trash in the dumpster at the end of the alley whenever we need to), we have replaced some familiar tasks with new ones.
Memories of cramping stomachs and sprints to the bathroom are ones we prefer not to re-live so while the water treatment systems have come a long ways here, we still need to drink filtered water.
We have two options: we could either purchase bottled water (which isn't terribly expensive but it adds up and weighs quite a bit when you are already walking home with heavy groceries in hand) or we could filter it ourselves.
Perhaps one of the most practical gifts anyone has given us so far is the gift of our Sawyer water filtration system. (THANK YOU, SUE!!!)
All we do is fill a 5-gallon, food-grade bucket with water from the tap.
Gravity and the Sawyer filter do the rest.
We fill some 5 liter jugs with water (it takes about 7 minutes per jug), then pour those into smaller liter bottles that fit in our fridge. We also have a 'bottle exchange system' where we keep a supply of full bottles on the floor by the fridge. Whenever Abby and Anna need water, they bring up and leave their empties and take down a full replacement.
So far, no sickness and lots of lek (money) saved!
No comments:
Post a Comment