Examples of Ridiculous Excess

[DarkandStormy]

Water bottles. Quit buying fucking water bottles.

Then how would I get water?

Ok, so I am being a pill. Im the one who lives in the country on a well. Our water is free. All the water I want completely free. But it is not drinkable. I have to purchase bottled water for us to live on.

Buy an in-home water filter and consider it amortized over ~10 years?  Probably beats buying bottled water every week/month.

[Linea_Norway]

Water bottles. Quit buying fucking water bottles.

Then how would I get water?

Ok, so I am being a pill. Im the one who lives in the country on a well. Our water is free. All the water I want completely free. But it is not drinkable. I have to purchase bottled water for us to live on.

Buy an in-home water filter and consider it amortized over ~10 years?  Probably beats buying bottled water every week/month.

I used to have a house with a well.
Make sure you use the free water for your bath, shower, toilet, washing machine and dishwasher.
In your kitchen cupboard, install a UV filter on the water to the cold water tap. This is your drinking water. A basic filter is not very expensive.
This way you only need a small filter, as you filter a small amount of water.

[Slee_stack]

+1 on water bottles.  Just a disposable item that serves no real purpose for the vast majority of people in Canada and the US, but is purchased in huge quantities.


In a similar vein:
- leaf blowers (which replace the simple rake - cheap, silent, quick and easy to use, will never break down, actually gets the leaves where you want them)
- swiffers (which replace either a broom or a mop  . . . with zero added benefit)

I like my battery powered leaf blower.  I think I blew [pun] $35 on it.  Yes I could have gotten a rake for $8 and also received extra 'free' exercise.  I like having fun when I exercise though.

Lots of caveats though...I already had a battery powered lawn mower (interchangeable batteries).  Anyway I really do like my electric yard tools so far (5 years in).

The blower's not quiet, but its not that loud either...maybe vacuum cleaner noise level?

Everyone has their own time saved / dollar spent equation.

[WootWoot]

Hiring a party bus for a kid's 21st birthday.

Like, they should be drinking so much they can't drive? I guess the argument could be "Yeah, we know they will, so this makes sure nobody gets killed." But I see it as kind of encouraging people to overindulge.

Or am I just nuts?

[GuitarStv]

+1 on water bottles.  Just a disposable item that serves no real purpose for the vast majority of people in Canada and the US, but is purchased in huge quantities.


In a similar vein:
- leaf blowers (which replace the simple rake - cheap, silent, quick and easy to use, will never break down, actually gets the leaves where you want them)
- swiffers (which replace either a broom or a mop  . . . with zero added benefit)

I like my battery powered leaf blower.  I think I blew [pun] $35 on it.  Yes I could have gotten a rake for $8 and also received extra 'free' exercise.  I like having fun when I exercise though.

Lots of caveats though...I already had a battery powered lawn mower (interchangeable batteries).  Anyway I really do like my electric yard tools so far (5 years in).

The blower's not quiet, but its not that loud either...maybe vacuum cleaner noise level?

Everyone has their own time saved / dollar spent equation.

I've just seen too many very noisy gas operated leaf blowers around here where people blow leaves around for a half an hour, knock 60% of them on to the road and then call it a job well done to ever be OK with leaf blowers.  :P

[I'm a red panda]

Hiring a party bus for a kid's 21st birthday.

Like, they should be drinking so much they can't drive? I guess the argument could be "Yeah, we know they will, so this makes sure nobody gets killed." But I see it as kind of encouraging people to overindulge.

Or am I just nuts?

Kids don't turn 21. Adults do.

I personally find the entire party bus mentality to be silly; but many people PLAN to celebrate their 21st birthday by binge drinking, so it's not a horrible way to do it.  Per person, they often don't cost that much.

[GuitarStv]

So weird that the drinking age is that high in the US.

[SC93]

Hiring a party bus for a kid's 21st birthday.

Like, they should be drinking so much they can't drive? I guess the argument could be "Yeah, we know they will, so this makes sure nobody gets killed." But I see it as kind of encouraging people to overindulge.

Or am I just nuts?

Kids don't turn 21. Adults do.

I personally find the entire party bus mentality to be silly; but many people PLAN to celebrate their 21st birthday by binge drinking, so it's not a horrible way to do it.  Per person, they often don't cost that much.

Not true, some kids do turn 21. It depends how they were raised. I didn't become an adult until I was 29. My grandson, who we are raising, is more of an adult at 14 than I was at 21. Some parents raise kids and some parents raise adults.

[SC93]

I do find it really funny that the OP would make this thread because just think of how The Sentinelese Tribe or The Korowai Tribe or any of the other tribes feel about what the OP has. Ridiculous to them is going to the store to buy your food, living in a house with running water and electricity. It's all relative, we must remember that. Wasting money to one person is money well spent to someone else.

[Paul der Krake]

The party bus ins't excessive at all. It's the smart and responsible thing to do.