Buying water!

freebie_junkie

iwanttosave wrote:

Are you joking?? You live practically round the corner from me and mine is discusting. Its not as bad as my last house but its still undrinkable. Its that bad you can smell it. I buy bottled water from asda and I get a 5ltr bottle for £1 (this isnt the asdas own though so I presume that theirs is cheaper) and the brita filta was just a waste of money

the water in bury is so good it tastes sweet almost, its off teh moors, not gone thru 9 peopel like london water yuck! i used to live in cheetham hill and teh water there is manky it doesnt even foam up your soap as good as bury water! i feel sorry for peopel living in manchester centre coz teh water is bad!

bury water is also really soft you dont need to descale anything ever.

i pay £7.20 per month, unmetered and its worth every penny!

the brita filter ebing a waste of money is just your opinion, my mum used to be one of those have to have bottled water peopel until she got a brita, she now spends a fifth per month less than with bottled water and as she used to buy little bottles of water shes also saving the environment by not chucking away all them empty bottles.

p.s. i wasnt 'joking?????', i tell much better jokes than that.

vickym

My darling husband cannot stand the taste of our tap water - so he insists on drinking only bottled water. 8 litres from aldi 99p.

However during the past few months I have been boiling a kettle full of water before I go to bed- and then in the morning filling up one of his empty bottles then putting it in the fridge. And also I boil the kettle before I go out and when I get back its cold and so another bottle is filled up.

Darling husband has not cottoned onto this so far and our bottled water bill in the last 12 months has gone from £5-34 (being 6 x 89p 5 litre bottles from tesco a week

To now only being £1-98 (2 x 99p being 8 x 2 litre bottles from aldi)

And darling husband is none the wiser - he thinks that before I was drinking his bottled water - when in fact I was just boiling it myself and filling a bottle up for me - Now we are both drinking tap water, he just hasnt realised it yet. Dont know whether I would full get away from buying him is £1-98 ration from Aldi though. But its a big improvement on £5-34 a week.

Good luck to everyone in saving money

livinginhope

Cannot understand anyone paying for bottled water,I watched a programme on TV about how bad for you bottled water is,the chances are it has been stuck inside the bottle for about a year!!!,add to that the chemicals released from the bottle and you have a lovely toxic drink,tap water is fresh when needed and not stagnant like bottled.

Mr_Proctalgia

Why not buy a Reverse Osmosis unit and have a 3rd tap, lots are available?

julesgr

We use a filter ,our water was so hard that the day after we moved in we noticed limesacle in our brand new kettle, we bought the filter that day and have used it ever since in fact we have 2 filters now and no scale in our kettle 8 months later! and the water tastes fab!

ms_london

I drink tap water (and bottled stuff at work from the water cooler). What a waste of money!!

How about the celebs that only drink "Fiji" bottled water. Sheer madness!!

Still, if you have the money, then fair play...

xx

ms_london

roadsidetree wrote:

Hi,

We have been buying drinking water from Tescos for quite some time now (last 2-3 years) . when we were living separately (OH and I) we will buy like 12 litres which will last more than a week for us.

Now we are living with parents-in-laws and we are buying this every week (now we buy 24 litres each time). the facts our nephew staying with us every week end, relatives dropping in very often doesn't help either

Yesterday when we went to Tescos, they ran out of their brand which we usually stick with. So we had to buy 9 litres of a leading brand at £2.98 :mad:

Living with PILs are nice as but since we do groceries shopping and pay bills as well, ideally we want to control this buying drinking water thingy.

any ideas / suggestions please?

many thanks in advance,

Why are you living with parents-in-laws? If its to save money, then perhaps you should stop buying bottled water for a start? Of course, it might not be....

david29dpo

its the fashion to drink bottled water, a fool and there money are easily parted!

AnnieH

You could always ask Evian for some samples. I emailed them earlier on in the week and I just got £10 worth of vouchers from them

iwanttosave_2

freebie_junkie wrote:

the water in bury is so good it tastes sweet almost, its off teh moors, not gone thru 9 peopel like london water yuck! i used to live in cheetham hill and teh water there is manky it doesnt even foam up your soap as good as bury water! i feel sorry for peopel living in manchester centre coz teh water is bad!

bury water is also really soft you dont need to descale anything ever.

i pay £7.20 per month, unmetered and its worth every penny!

the brita filter ebing a waste of money is just your opinion, my mum used to be one of those have to have bottled water peopel until she got a brita, she now spends a fifth per month less than with bottled water and as she used to buy little bottles of water shes also saving the environment by not chucking away all them empty bottles.

p.s. i wasnt 'joking?????', i tell much better jokes than that.

our water (Elton area) is discusting, its like swimming in bury baths, you can smell the clorine as its coming out of the tap. It also tastes very metalic, its like I am sucking on a copper pipe, its horrid. And I know its not just my pipes at this house, when we lived in ainsworth the water was equally horrid, also leaves a bad aftertaste in my mouth, I just just about stand to brush my teeth with it. the kids wont drink the tap water either but they will drink bottled water (they dont even know its bottled water, and I have tried tricking them into drinking tap water by filling a bottle up with it but they just wont drink it)

It is truly discusting.