Posted on 11/26/2013 5:28:22 PM PST by FLAMING DEATH
Our water is also weird and soft, and it takes extra for rinsing than when I stay anywhere else. But I don’t let the water run in between soaping up and rinsing — maybe it’s our dishwasher. We could try eating off paper towels or something.
It’s pretty bad when a buffalo criticizes your hygiene.
Yes...but the hot water is expensive there...:^)
ha! at the gym i lather up good with lots of the ginger scented soap,
wash meself and my gym clothes and luxuriate for 15-20 minutes.
I meant that as a general comment/advice for people in special circumstances.
The old steel Army helmets served for many uses in the field.
As for dishes,my method is partially fill one sink basin with dishwashing water,scrub the dishes by hand,place in rack, and then rinse off the rackful using the sink sprayer.Probably uses 3 or 4 gallons,tops. Wash greasy dishes last.
I live in the country with a private water system and water conservation has been a lifelong habit.
Public utilities are always setting higher and higher minimum bills.Our electric rates are 6 times the rate of my post-high years AND there is a $20 monthly availability charge before the first watt is used.We use half the electricity as before and still pay 5 or 6 times as much money! Hooking up to the water utility is many thousands of dollars and carries a contractual requirement to NOT use and cisterns,ponds, or other sources of water for any purposes. Now why should I buy chlorinated water for the garden when I have other water?
Watching someone wash dishes with the faucet running a heavy stream right down the drain kind of shocks me;dishwashers and garbage disposals are convenient but one does pay a price .I have neither appliance.
Urban life has a very high minimum cost to my thinking because of high water and sewerage fees,property taxes,utility rates,and so on. Few people in urban areas make use of the rain water (in some places it is not permitted!)even for lawns or gardens(again,food garden may not even be allowed).
All the mandatory and required things demand a rather high minimum income or government “assistance”.
It seems you must run ever faster just to stay in place.
Certainly urban life has its attractions and benefits ;but I’d rather be poor in the country than poor in the city.A wringer washer and a clothesline produce clean fresh-smelling clothes and linens with a fraction of the water but require more labor.
Even better,I’d rather be rich.
No doubt the quasi-independence from the “system” is just one more reason the UN Agenda 21 planners want to crowd everyone but the elite into apartments.
I SO agree! As soon as we can get out of here, we are moving to a place with a well.
We really do conserve water, but the local supervisors got caught up in housing bubble mania and built a multi-million dollar water plant for homes that were never built, so the costs of the new plant are being borne by the existing homeowners. In the last year, our bill went from $50 a month to $200 a month.
2. Health and safety issues should be handled by the administration and/or nurse.
3. A blanket note to all parents on a subject that only concerns a few, will always create trouble.
One was so bad that my co-workers and I went to the dollar store and bought some sweatpants and socks for him.
Bless you.
It was there classroom. Their craft and work was to be respected. I'd turn my shirt out respect for their role in my and other's life. My right to editorial clothing and it's messages had to take a back seat to good manners.
Now these events become school board / legal system / national news.
I think the 24/7 news television outlets are a downward driver on our society.
I prefer to travel than living at home. My wife is a hoarder of things. What would a person need over 150 pairs of socks for? 100 pair of jeans? Hundreds of tops and shirts? 15 staplers? 12 desktop tape dispensers? over 60 pairs of sunglasses? And an endless list of more...........
Americans are weird!
“The poor homes had an acrid smell because the man of the family, at night went out and pee’d on the woodpile.”
I’m having a logical disconnect here. He did it on purpose or because he was peeing off the porch and the wood just happened to be in the way?
***...he was peeing off the porch and the wood just happened to be in the way?***
Peeing off the porch causes the grass to die, and the smell in the area gets terrible.
Animals mark their territory that way.
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