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04-21-2024, 3:57pm | #81 | ||||||
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I love the idea because I'm going to have an outside shower on the back of the garage where the W&D will be...I can throw my dirty clothes in the washer and hop in the shower without ever going inside the house. My wife is ecstatic about this. |
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I have two ovens and two refrigerators. We used to have two freezers but just one now. It still seems like we have a lot of laundry even after the sons moved out. Occasionally I’ll use my mil’s washer and dryer. Her house is next door.
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04-21-2024, 9:45pm | #89 | ||||||
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Soft drinks.
I don't think I've had one for over 10 years. Yesterday we went to a local mom and pop hot dog stand for lunch. The wife and I both got a small (~ 8oz) homemade root beer. Neither one of use could drink more than half of it. About the only drinks I have are coffee, water, beer and an occasional bourbon. All necessities of life. |
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OK, I read the article now. I don't think it overlapped with anything I said except that most bottled water is processed tap water.
Wastewater you are seeing is a byproduct of reverse osmosis or nanofiltration backwash. The most efficient RO systems only recover ~80% of the water (permeate) and the other 20% is concentrate (wastewater). Low pressure home systems only recover ~50%. RO permeate is almost pure H2O and is corrosive so they add salts to the water to give it a taste and raise the pH. Some of the wastewater you are seeing is also from cleaning their equipment and containers. The biggest BS in the article was the "sky is falling" about the trace amounts of scary-sounding chemicals in the water without saying that the concentration is high enough to be a health hazard or that the entire supply is contaminated. Maybe it is in some instances, but I doubt many bottlers in the US are consistently serving up water that is known to have cancer-causing amounts of chemicals. |
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I'm sure that's some of it, but it's annoying AF to have to update the firmware on a washer or refrigerator. Why would I need to change the fridge temp with an app while I'm sitting on the couch or away from the house. If the fridge breaks while at the store or on vacation, WTF am I going to do about it anyway?
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In that case, do what many do, including myself. Buy smart gear for your practicality. I don't need a smart microwave, but perhaps you can use one to heat up coffee or chow on your way home. |
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It's becoming increasingly difficult to find dumb appliances.
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...but not difficult finding dumb appliance repairmen.
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I used to consult for landfill operators in upstate NY and they were writing checks to farmers for dead cows all too often. |
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Probably 60 years ago there was a thing in "Mad" magazine about what to do with those annoying soap bars that are half gone, somewhat unusable, so you throw them out.
Their solution: Make the bars hollow so when they're half gone they're all gone! Typical Mad Magazine, back then anyway. Not sure if anyone followed up on that or not, probably a few Polish folk tried it. But I have a solution that actually works: You must use Dial soap. See how the bars are curved? When the bar in the shower starts to get small and thin, I put a fresh bar beside it. When the time comes, and both are wet, I can rub them together vigorously and they will stick because of the curves. Other soaps that are flat don't work as well. So I figure that in the past half-century, I've saved around $4.68 by doing this instead of throwing the slivers out. |
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