Things I do that will change your life: Stop Buying Water

Ok, so this post is totally going to ramble a little, and I am getting annoyed with myself just thinking about it.  Buying things has become a real PITA for me.  I used to be really good at it, dangerously so, but once the credit limits dried up I started to care a little more about what I was buying.  I read tiny print, I google long ingredient words with Latin roots that are unidentifiable to me, instead of singing in the shower I weigh the pros and cons of recycled vs made from bamboo.  Almost everything I buy I have an opinion about, some stupid justification as to why I bought it, or why I bought this and not that.

One thing that drives me nutso is bottled water.  Turning water into a commodity is as ludicrous as turning air into one (oh wait).  Dasani and Aquafina are just tap water from some state that I hope I'll never find myself in, and don't even get me started on those plastic bottles.  And those plastic bottles that you people keep in your car in the sun leeching chemicals into your drinking water... The other kicker to this is that the water at my house sucks.  For years I denied it, but we have well water, which doesn't pass through 4 tanks at a processing plant before it reaches my tap, it passes through the ground and through my basement.  Unsurprisingly, it kind of smells like a pond, and it's bad taste is only a step above Florida's tap water.  (seriously, what the heck is up with that water Florida?)

The solution!  Get your own goddamn spring water and beat the man at his own game.  Go to http://www.findaspring.com ... and find a spring.  If you read my blog and aren't totally disgusted by my preachy liberal Massachusetts attitude, chances are you live near one of those blue pins. (Sorry Nebraska.. maybe you guys should just stick to cows milk, work with what you got)  Tre and I frequent the ones in Sandwich, MA and the one in Exeter, NH depending on where we are on a particular weekend.

The spring in Exeter is at the end of a dirt road in a small neighborhood.  It's pretty busy, there have been other people there every single time we have visited, but the water is great and to me high traffic means it's safe to drink as well.  The spring in Sandwich is in the center of town, right on 6a, so chances are that if you're going anywhere on the Cape you're going to drive right past it.  It's a pipe that comes up out of the ground next to a beautiful old gristmill with a water wheel.

Save up those empty water/milk gallons and buy yourself one of these 5 gallon BPA free water jugs with a valve.  If you really want to pat yourself on the back for taking one more step towards being awesome then also invest in a glass water bottle.  They don't ever smell, or get cloudy, and they are way easy to clean.  I have this one and I use it all day long, at school, in the car, and I take it to bed with me at night.

The spring in Exeter, NH

Also, if you happen to be in Exeter, you could continue to copy all the cool things we do and stop at the Good Karma Cafe for lunch.  And if you have to poop, the bathroom upstairs is bigger than the one downstairs ;)