Dumbish bottled water question

[Anonymous]

RA is starting to get real and I can no longer lift the bottles in and out at the store. What’s the deal with delivery if you live in an apartment?

[Anonymous]

We used to get a dozen gallons of water or more delivered via Instacart. The drivers were almost always super nice and willing to deliver it up to our apartment (no elevator) and I also made my kids help. I gave a big tip.

We had a delivery service when we lived in a house.....

[Anonymous]

the the love of all that's holy, stop drinking bottled water. you are single handedly destroying the planet. I don't care what your "excuse" is, JUST STOP! Do you not watch the news? The whole of Australia is ablaze. 500,000,000 million animals have died. We need to take this seriously, starting with our shopping and consumption choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used to get a dozen gallons of water or more delivered via Instacart. The drivers were almost always super nice and willing to deliver it up to our apartment (no elevator) and I also made my kids help. I gave a big tip.

We had a delivery service when we lived in a house.....

Thank you. I will try Instacart. We already switched dispensers to bottom, but I can’t even get the 5 gal bottles in the cart. I appreciate the tip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the the love of all that's holy, stop drinking bottled water. you are single handedly destroying the planet. I don't care what your "excuse" is, JUST STOP! Do you not watch the news? The whole of Australia is ablaze. 500,000,000 million animals have died. We need to take this seriously, starting with our shopping and consumption choices.

Thank you for the lecture. Hope you feel purged.

[Anonymous]

You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

I meant via a water service (such as https://www.crystal-springs.com/), not Instacart. Instacart drivers are not really equipped to deliver very heavy items and I find that most of the time, the heavy, low-cost items like water end up not being delivered as “out of stock”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the the love of all that's holy, stop drinking bottled water. you are single handedly destroying the planet. I don't care what your "excuse" is, JUST STOP! Do you not watch the news? The whole of Australia is ablaze. 500,000,000 million animals have died. We need to take this seriously, starting with our shopping and consumption choices.

Thank you for the lecture. Hope you feel purged.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

We have a bottom loader as of Sept. Our building has really bad hard water. It stains our teeth and even our vet wanted us to stop using the tap for the cat. However, the owner won’t allow a filter to be installed. We’ve snuck and tried the screw on kinds, but they don’t fit the hardware. The dispenser is the only other option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

I meant via a water service (such as https://www.crystal-springs.com/), not Instacart. Instacart drivers are not really equipped to deliver very heavy items and I find that most of the time, the heavy, low-cost items like water end up not being delivered as “out of stock”.

We got it routinely from Instacart.

Mountain Valley Spring Water used to be considered the best water service on the market. (I think it's changed hands since we used to get it, tho.) We used to get it delivered in glass bottles every week. They left them at the door if we weren't home but OP they gave us this convenient screw-on pump that fit in the bottles, so you didn't need a dispenser. If you find a service to deliver the big bottles to your apartment, maybe you can get one of those pumps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the the love of all that's holy, stop drinking bottled water. you are single handedly destroying the planet. I don't care what your "excuse" is, JUST STOP! Do you not watch the news? The whole of Australia is ablaze. 500,000,000 million animals have died. We need to take this seriously, starting with our shopping and consumption choices.

Thank you for the lecture. Hope you feel purged.

LOL

No seriously. Wait until she hears how many trash bags of medical waste plastics my family has to discard every month. And none of it it recyclable. There is no excuse! Not even cancer. We are just plain evil obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

I meant via a water service (such as https://www.crystal-springs.com/), not Instacart. Instacart drivers are not really equipped to deliver very heavy items and I find that most of the time, the heavy, low-cost items like water end up not being delivered as “out of stock”.

We got it routinely from Instacart.

Mountain Valley Spring Water used to be considered the best water service on the market. (I think it's changed hands since we used to get it, tho.) We used to get it delivered in glass bottles every week. They left them at the door if we weren't home but OP they gave us this convenient screw-on pump that fit in the bottles, so you didn't need a dispenser. If you find a service to deliver the big bottles to your apartment, maybe you can get one of those pumps.

Thanks. We’ve had one dispenser or another for a couple years. Getting the big bottles delivered is the trick. I’ll see if the company you suggested delivers to my building.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

We have a bottom loader as of Sept. Our building has really bad hard water. It stains our teeth and even our vet wanted us to stop using the tap for the cat. However, the owner won’t allow a filter to be installed. We’ve snuck and tried the screw on kinds, but they don’t fit the hardware. The dispenser is the only other option.

The water delivery services will deliver gallon bottles or 3 gallon sizes if that is what you need. I would also look into the ZeroWater pitcher filters. https://www.zerowater.com/zerowater-products.php My MIL has terrible water and swears by them. The pitchers are slow but they do produce good tasting water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could get a bottom loading water dispenser (no lifting the big bottles upside down) and get 5 gallon bottles delivered to your house but there will always be some degree of lifting involved. I would get a good quality under sink water filter installed instead unless you have a medical need for something like distilled water. If so, there are home distilling machines as well.

We have a bottom loader as of Sept. Our building has really bad hard water. It stains our teeth and even our vet wanted us to stop using the tap for the cat. However, the owner won’t allow a filter to be installed. We’ve snuck and tried the screw on kinds, but they don’t fit the hardware. The dispenser is the only other option.

The water delivery services will deliver gallon bottles or 3 gallon sizes if that is what you need. I would also look into the ZeroWater pitcher filters. https://www.zerowater.com/zerowater-products.php My MIL has terrible water and swears by them. The pitchers are slow but they do produce good tasting water.

Yes they produce "good tasting" water but they do not filter out chemicals. They are a waste of money. We've had all kinds of filters over the years. I'm going to get a counter top distiller when I can afford one. They're slow, too, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the the love of all that's holy, stop drinking bottled water. you are single handedly destroying the planet. I don't care what your "excuse" is, JUST STOP! Do you not watch the news? The whole of Australia is ablaze. 500,000,000 million animals have died. We need to take this seriously, starting with our shopping and consumption choices.

Thank you for the lecture. Hope you feel purged.

Not PP. Seriously - you need to wake up, the planet is being destroyed, partly because of you. What the heck is wrong with you??