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[chhotii]

Why do people BUY bottled water as storm prep? Why not just fill a couple of pitchers from the tap ahead of time? What is so magical about lugging your water home in plastic, anyway?

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[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

is "people r dumb" too obvious an answer? :)

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

At $0.50 a gallon(*), it's cheaper to buy a couple gallons of water than to buy empty storage containers for water.

(*) current price at Market Basket

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

can't folks usually fill their bathtub for free, and re-use containers they had around anyway? i mean, our recycling day is tomorrow, but we had a couple containers lying around with nothing better to do....

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

But any storage container that I would buy would be re-usable. For example, I filled up the container that we keep in the fridge so we always have fridge-cold water; it has been re-filled over and over. I also filled the Soda Stream bottles, which are re-usable, and a clean ex-spaghetti-sauce jar. If I were really concerned I would've filled more of those and also the pitchers we have on-hand anyway for ice tea, sangria, etc. purposes.