Money Saving gone TOO far?

maggie111

dazzle21 wrote: »

I think it's a great idea to use the bath water to water the garden. However my sister's husband has taken this a step to far in my opinion, they share bath water (get in one after the other - nothing romantic!) then water the garden with same water, after using the loo you can't run the tap to wash your hands you must use the water already in the sink..which i suspect is same bath water (changed daily..eurghhhhh!) I've actually stopped visiting as he gets very stressed if you forget and accidentally turn on a tap..

Oh that is SO disgusting!! I can understand if you want to do it all by yourself, that's fine... But enforcing guests to do it is making my skin crawl!!!

DKLS

dazzle21 wrote: »

I think it's a great idea to use the bath water to water the garden. However my sister's husband has taken this a step to far in my opinion, they share bath water (get in one after the other - nothing romantic!) then water the garden with same water, after using the loo you can't run the tap to wash your hands you must use the water already in the sink..which i suspect is same bath water (changed daily..eurghhhhh!) I've actually stopped visiting as he gets very stressed if you forget and accidentally turn on a tap..

I would have stopped visiting as well, Cannot understand why anyone would do the above.

Reverbe

I read in the paper about some ppl sewing teabags in half on a sewing machine... strikes me as more time and effort than it saves...

cyclingyorkie

20 years ago i was at uni with someone who dried out teabags and reused them!

I think he's a doctor now!:eek:

imajica

I think the line is when you begin negatively affecting somebody or your surroundings. Saving water is the right side of the line, you've lost sight of the line if your friends no longer want to visit your freaky bathroom and you're risking sharing an infection

oystercatcher

dazzle21 wrote: »

I think it's a great idea to use the bath water to water the garden. However my sister's husband has taken this a step to far in my opinion, they share bath water (get in one after the other - nothing romantic!) then water the garden with same water, after using the loo you can't run the tap to wash your hands you must use the water already in the sink..which i suspect is same bath water (changed daily..eurghhhhh!) I've actually stopped visiting as he gets very stressed if you forget and accidentally turn on a tap..

This is downright unhygenic as the water sitting in the sink will be breeding germs ! Don't eat anything they may have touched !!

We have always shared bath water. One bath for the children and one for me and DH. If I'm in the used bathwater I use clean water to wash my face . If the water looks too grubby to use then it is dumped and fresh run though. There's no point in being obsessive and making life unpleaseant.

Just to add we don't even have a water meter just like to save when possible for enviromental reasons !

mgardner

Reverbe wrote: »

I read in the paper about some ppl sewing teabags in half on a sewing machine... strikes me as more time and effort than it saves...

Dont think this would save anything today not with the price of a reel of cotton
I use Asda teabags 28p for 80. I also put a few drops of lavender oil on these and use
them as air freshers

freebiequennie

we have a 4bed home and just me and husband and have a water meter we only flush loo when weve done a number 2 or number 1's get too smelly, we have 3 toliets and all get flushed at night before bed.

we have a shower in en-suite and use this most days and when have a bath I have one first then husband uses it after me and tops up with hot water if needed.

when washing up we run hot tap (initially cold when comes out) into water filter and then when warm into bowl only half fill bowl then top up as it cools down.

we have a water butt and this is used for watering veggies in garden.

[Deleted User]

freebiequennie wrote: »

we have a 4bed home and just me and husband and have a water meter we only flush loo when weve done a number 2 or number 1's get too smelly, we have 3 toliets and all get flushed at night before bed.

lol, I thanked when I meant to quote

We used to do that until the downstairs loo started to drain rather slowly and needed some de-gunking. Never again, we now flush each time as all the drainpipes are interconnected and flushing keeps them all sweet

charliee_3

freebiequennie wrote: »

we have a 4bed home and just me and husband and have a water meter we only flush loo when weve done a number 2 or number 1's get too smelly, we have 3 toliets and all get flushed at night before bed.

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we were doing this but are flushing no.1 much more often now as we ended up with a thick layer of urine limescale stuff under the waterline which had to be scraped off as it was impervious to all cleaners (bleugh). i spent a fortune on products to try and shift it so probably ended up costing more (moneywise) than flushing more regularly.

if you are on your own you culd leave the bathwater in the bath and keep a big saucepan there and pour it directly down the loo.. but then it may be a step to far and i'd never expect guests to do it!!