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With the weather getting hotter, I’m more tuned into my and my client’s water consumption.  But the sound of cash registers ringing up water sales all over this city is enough to make my good ear go deaf.  

Why are you people BUYING water???

This is absolutely absurd.  With what we know about plastics, recycling, etc, none of us should be forking out any of our soon-to-be euro for a bottle of water.  You know what it is?  It’s just plain ole’ laziness.  Yeah, I said it–I called you lazy.  Too lazy to buy your own reusable water bottle.  Too lazy to fill it up the night before, put it in the fridge so that when you wake up, it’s nice and cold when you leave the house.  You don’t want to deal with it.  You’d rather just waste more of your money on bottle after bottle after bottle each day.  Throughout the day, here and there, you buy a bottle, and then you either forget you have it, it gets warm, you drink it, you accidentally throw it away before it’s empty or whatever and you buy another one.  Let’s just add up the costs, shall we? Ok.  A small normal bottle of water is, let’s just say for easy math, two dollars.  You need to be drinking about 10 of those wimpy bottles of water a day.  So you’re easily shelling out as much as $20 a day in water.  Don’t believe me?  Do a little experiment and you’ll see that you do.  For $20, you can buy a SIGG bottle at Whole Foods (or many other places–that’s just where I got mine) and fill it up over and over. Plus, it keeps the water so cold!  Also, for $2.39, I bought a gallon jug from K-Mart that I fill up each day.  It has a handle, a little pop-top and everything!  I even put “Code Red” on it.  

So people, reeeeally!  Let’s think twice about buying bottles of water.  Go get yourself a reusable jug and take the extra 8 seconds to fill it up each time (it’s literally 8 seconds–I just timed it).

(Yes, I did call you lazy earlier but that doesn’t mean I don’t love you.  Tough love, baby.  Tough love.  That’s just how I roll).