Bottled water consumed at home

[Anonymous]

We have this friend who comes over every Sunday. He's been coming over on Sundays for about a year. He almost always grabs a bottled water from our frig while he is here. We have a water filter hooked onto our kitchen faucet. What our family does when we want to drink water at home is we get a cup out of the cupboard and fill it with filtered water from the faucet. Put ice cubes in it if we want to. We keep bottled water in the frig for times we are going out on errands and want to take water with us. And yes, we offer bottled water to company but also ask if they want filtered water in a cup. Apparently we forgot to offer filtered water to this guy the very first time he came over.

I want to tell him that I would prefer that he just get water from our faucet filter because it is way cheaper and way more environmentally friendly. And also because I have to remember to restock the bottled water in the frig before he comes over. I can't think of a polite way to bring this up.

Do you all have any suggestions?

How do you all feel about drinking bottled water at home?

[Anonymous]

If you were really environmentally conscious, you would be taking a refillable bottle on errands. Adopt this practice, and he won't have a choice but to drink from the tap.

[Anonymous]

If this bothers you so much and you don't feel you can speak directly, be out of bottled water next Sunday. Give him a glass and tell him the tap water is filtered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have this friend who comes over every Sunday. He's been coming over on Sundays for about a year. He almost always grabs a bottled water from our frig while he is here. We have a water filter hooked onto our kitchen faucet. What our family does when we want to drink water at home is we get a cup out of the cupboard and fill it with filtered water from the faucet. Put ice cubes in it if we want to. We keep bottled water in the frig for times we are going out on errands and want to take water with us. And yes, we offer bottled water to company but also ask if they want filtered water in a cup. Apparently we forgot to offer filtered water to this guy the very first time he came over.

I want to tell him that I would prefer that he just get water from our faucet filter because it is way cheaper and way more environmentally friendly. And also because I have to remember to restock the bottled water in the frig before he comes over. I can't think of a polite way to bring this up.

Do you all have any suggestions?

How do you all feel about drinking bottled water at home?

Use your words and offer filter water. I can't believe you wrote all that out because of 4 bottles of water a month.

[Anonymous]

This is my mom, when she visits! She usually has her own water, so I can't say much. I've tried but it doesn't get through.

Once she kept opening new bottled water when we were specifically preserving water in various containers for an incoming hurricane (at our beach house). I was like, "hold up mom! Use the tap/fridge while we still have it!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you were really environmentally conscious, you would be taking a refillable bottle on errands. Adopt this practice, and he won't have a choice but to drink from the tap.

+1 we don't keep bottled water at home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this bothers you so much and you don't feel you can speak directly, be out of bottled water next Sunday. Give him a glass and tell him the tap water is filtered.

This is the obvious answer, OP. You couldn't figure this out?

[Anonymous]

I buy and only drink bottled water. 35 for $4. Are you buying expensive water or am I missing something like you just don't want him to drink your bottled water ?

We also have a faucet filter and filtered refrigerator water. I use that for cooking and pets.

My advice ? Call him before he comes for his weekly visit and tell him to pick up a case on his way. Do this every week,

[Anonymous]

Have you ever heard of these magical things called refillable water bottles, OP?

I can never understand people who still buy bottled water for use at home. Like... you know the impact on the environment, you know you're part of the problem, you know there are better solutions... so why do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy and only drink bottled water. 35 for $4. Are you buying expensive water or am I missing something like you just don't want him to drink your bottled water ?

We also have a faucet filter and filtered refrigerator water. I use that for cooking and pets.

My advice ? Call him before he comes for his weekly visit and tell him to pick up a case on his way. Do this every week,

You're a terrible person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you ever heard of these magical things called refillable water bottles, OP?

I can never understand people who still buy bottled water for use at home. Like... you know the impact on the environment, you know you're part of the problem, you know there are better solutions... so why do it?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy and only drink bottled water. 35 for $4. Are you buying expensive water or am I missing something like you just don't want him to drink your bottled water ?

We also have a faucet filter and filtered refrigerator water. I use that for cooking and pets.

My advice ? Call him before he comes for his weekly visit and tell him to pick up a case on his way. Do this every week,

It's not the cost it's all the waste that is the issue.

OP, stop having it in the fridge.

[Anonymous]

Why on earth does he need to come over every Sun? So odd.

[Anonymous]

Your only problem is stocking disposable bottles of water in your house. Stop that and the world will be a better place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you were really environmentally conscious, you would be taking a refillable bottle on errands. Adopt this practice, and he won't have a choice but to drink from the tap.

This. Take refillable bottles with you.

I do agree though that that is annoying. I keep bottled waters at home too, but they are strictly to give out to contractors who come by to do work, I've noticed that they really don't like drinking out of a cup.. I don't blame them, I probably wouldn't want to either. But I make sure to put those away, they are usually in basement.