Expensive drinking

Good Morning! First of all your gasoline prices are really good in comparison to ours in our country of South Africa... We are paying over R7-00 for a litre of petrol. And if you are aware, a gallon is alot more than a litre. So count your blessings. As for bottled water, it depends where you buy it and if you are talking about still bottled water. Those we can get in 5 litre bottles and cost anything from R10-00 for a 5 litre container of still water to about R18-00. Depends also if it is on special or not. We pretty much have good tap water and if not then we get filters on our taps in the kitchen for drinking water and then it works out cheaper than buying the bottled water. I do not have a filter on my tap at home and the water is still relatively good enough to drink without having a bad taste. My parents have a filter on their kitchen tap for drinking water purposes. A friend of mine has a water filter dispenser machine. However, most of my friends and family just drink tap water.

Where I live I spend on a gallon of water with bubbles about one dollar. I have tap water that one can drink, it tastes great. I also have a little machine that puts bubbles into plain water. All this is relatively inexplensive, I often drink water and I seldom drink soft drinks. I did not know that you are so unfortunate to pay so much for a simple basic need.

I get my water from a well. The well is 500 ft deep 400 of it through solid granite where the water comes from a vast underground lake. I run the water through a reverse osmosis filter and bottle it. No better tasting water anywhere.

I only drink bottle water unless I'm in a restaurant. It has to do with what my medication makes tap water taste like to me. I don't know how much I spend on it, but I drink more than the required 8 glass of 8oz. of water a day. But I look at it sort of like I don't eat out hardly ever, I don't buy junk food, and haven't bought clothes in a while. LOL Anything to justify the cost. I looked at the price of Fiji water in the store the other day and was just amazed. You almost have to be rich to buy that brand of water all the time. I look for the more affordable brands, but I always look to see where the water originated from.

I'm a bottled water drinker, since the tap water tastes terrible--live in the big apple --it's like you can actually taste all the chemicals dumped into the water supply to supposedly "purify" it---so yes I do get bottled water --I usually get the store brand or Poland Springs water at about a dollar or a little more..so I don't consider that too expensive... I usually get about three gallons a week..so not too bad in price..so definitely a lot less than gasoline

I buy the flavored bottled water which comes to $1 a bottle if I find a good like which is like 10/$10 at a grocery store near buy. But I totally get what you are saying.

You have an excellent point dear. I would not pay that kind of money for water. I have well water, and it is great. I use that, and if I go out, I fill jugs with it.

It really makes me surprised at the stupidity of people. Bottled water isn't even pure. I understand if the water quality is poor, like here where I live, we have bore water. And the expense!? People have more money than brains. LOL.

I drink bottled water at work, but we have a water cooler for it there, and it's not that expensive. Everyone who works there and drinks the water splits the bill, so I wind up paying about $3-5 a month for it. The water tastes very good, and I drink it all day long. At home, I don't drink as much water as I should because I hate the taste of tap water. I should just buy gallons of bottled water to keep at home, but usually instead I drink other things. Or I'll make a really weak herbal tea out of it to cut the taste of the tap water.

Hello susie. I don't have to spend anything on our drinking water. I had bought a large water dispenser that automatically purified the tap water. I also put a few drops of trace minerals which serve as an added supplement for our body. My doctor highly recommended this trace minerals to me months ago. It helps to detoxify our body more and replenish the lost minerals in our body.

I used to use that analogy all the time too, only I used to say how much a gallon of milk was! People looked at me like I was nuts when I'd say that, and would then say something like, "Well, I don't buy 15 gallons of milk when I go to the store, I spend the $2.00 and it lasts a week!" So, okay, they win. I do not buy bottled water very often. My husband and I buy a bottle of water maybe every 2 months and just refill the same bottle with tap water. I've heard that it is safe to do that as long as you are not drinking out of the other person's or as long as you haven't been sick, if you get sick with anything change to a new bottle! Got sort of off track there, but. . . . ya, bottled water is rediculously priced.

I do like bottled water and I buy a case of it. I can usually get it for about $3.99 for a case of 24 - 16 ounce bottles. What I do though, is refill my bottle with tap water, then I can always have a bottle of water with me. I hardly ever buy it out of a machine, because it just cost to much. I try to always have a bottle with me and just refil it.