Oh boy, you hit on the ultimate bone to pick between me and my husband.
We have a wellwater, which is not rusty at all like everyone else's around us, but we live between two set of train tracks and hubby was worried about creosole and the chemicals they use to spray on the weeds along the tracks, etc.
When we first moved here, and had the water tested (which came back fine btw), we were drinking straight from the tap. The water tasted better than anything I've ever had before. Then hubby started with his freakin' out thing that he does with a lot of stuff and wanted us to start using the Brita water pitcher with filter. We drank too much water to keep up with the pitcher size (we did away with all sodas and really only drink water all day now) and I didn't like the idea of having to buy and keep tossing out the filters at that time. THEN he gets the idea for buying bottled water. I don't mind having some here to grab for the car ride or something, but we easily got through 48-72 bottles of it every week or two and I can't stand it.
He totally will not budge on this one! When we go out to eat at, which is rare given the gluten free diet three out of the four of us are on, I take a couple of bottles with us because I find everyone else tap water tastes nasty. They also started putting it vending machines at school because various faucets in various buildings were testing high in some things that shouldn't be ingested. In those cases, I feel okay about taking bottled water with me.
When he tells me it, or anything else, has to barged over here anyways for every other person buying bottled water or imported products, I tell him that I'd feel better knowing that I was one less person that that barge was coming over for.
I have to chalk this water debate with him up with the electric lawn mower...I'm getting nowhere on both issues.
Edited by: GranolaJoe on May 11, 2007 11:34:06 AM
