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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? :)

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Some people think that unless they can "clean" their old soda/milk bottles, the water they might put into them might be "dirty". Thus a used plastic milk jug or a used soda bottle can never be clean enough to put water in to store it. Open pitchers might allow dirt and dust and pet hair and germs and disinfectant spray to go into the water.

Note: isn't it amazing how people are worried about how poisonous their disinfectant spray/wipes are, yet they use it so that their counter tops/hands can be sterile?

[ceo]

What's even sillier is people lugging home bottled water, when they have city water. If the hurricane takes out the water mains, we have bigger problems.

longevity

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

We have a little bit of distilled water (2 gallons) because it can be stored long term and we have it with no prep needed, it doesn't evaporate or go musty after a few days. I remember that happening with the water we stashed in pots and bottles during the black out in NY that lasted for 5 days during the 70s. I also remember filling the bathtub with water so we could use it to flush the toilets. I don't know if that's needed anymore.

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't re-use an old milk bottle. But I have some glass jars that used to hold spaghetti sauce and the like, which have gone through the dishwasher. These can be (and sometimes are) filled with water and put in the fridge.

Pitchers with lids exist. I have a couple.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Given that I don't understand the need to buy plastic coated water in the first place, no, it makes zero sense.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I was in a grocery store a couple of days ago, and the bottled water section had already been hit fairly heavily. I was amused to note that in the cookware/gadgets section, the pitcher/beverage container stock was pretty much untouched.

[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.