I should begin this rant by stressing how completely and utterly unfit we were for quite some time back there… I ate way too much fast food and drank more soda in a weekend than anyone should probably drink in a month.
Little by little we’ve been changing our eating habits for the better, so somewhere quite some time back we started buying water and drinking that instead of soda. Why’d we buy water? Because our municipal water tastes terrible – it can be used to induce vomiting if you’re poisoned or anorexic.
However, there’s a problem with bottled water. It’s expensive. There’s also the secondary problem of Indiana has no real PET recycling programs so they’re pretty wasteful – but screw that, it’s expensive.. that’s the real problem!
So about a month ago we decided to buy a water purifier so we could drink tap water instead of buying it like suckers. We stopped in at our local home improvement store, and looked for the plumbing section. After a few brief moments of being distracted by fancy black toilets, copper kitchen sinks, expensive water softeners and gaudy faucets we finally found the purifiers.
It’s actually not expensive at all for an under-sink filter – about $45 for the whole setup, and about $6 a pop for replacement filters. We’d have to go through filters at a rate of 3 a week to cost more than bottled water – pretty unlikely.
The problem? It still tastes awful in my opinion. It’s not quite as bad, I can’t taste it when it’s cold and it’s drinkable at room temperature (as in I can keep it down, but it’s not an enjoyable experience)… Sabs says she can’t taste it and it tastes good – I dislike it though, especially when it’s warm.
On hot days it doesn’t come out of the faucet quite cold enough to taste good, so I’m going to buy the hardware to hook up the ice maker/water dispenser in our fridge to it so we can have it chilled and all that good stuff. The icemaker should work so maybe we can save money from buying ice in the summer too!