Drinking bottled water at home is a waste. You don't even need to buy it when you go out if you have a stainless steel bottle. Just don't buy it, or don't put any in the fridge. If there is none in there, he'll have to use faucet water. This is a no brainer.

OP here. Thank you everyone for all the responses. It is nice to see that there are a bunch of people who are not fans of using bottled water. I thought most people didn't even think about it. So I wondered if I was being shallow to grumble about our bottled water guest.

I once looked over my water bill for our house and then did a bunch of math. I figured out that it costs 1 penny for 7 gallons of water out of the tap. That is a whole lot of glasses of water that can be drank from the tap vs. one bottled water. I never have done the math though about how much a glass of water costs from our faucet filter.

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

OP here. My husband is his AA sponsor.

Is the bottle of water maybe supposed to mimic a bottle of beer?

OP here. Ha Ha! I hadn't thought of that!

In light of this, I am changing my response: one bottle a week is fine.

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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.

OP here. I look in the stores for refillable water bottles. I have bought many, but I have yet to find the "perfect" one. I want one that has a wide mouth so I can clean the inside of it. Not too tall or it tips over when I go around curves in the car. Not too wide or it won't fit well in the cup holder of my vehicle. I have found that Dasani water bottles in a can cozy fit just right in my car cup holders.

FWIW, I refill my empty Dasani water bottles from my faucet about 20 times before I toss them.

Have you looked at Klean Kanteen? They list measurements on their website.

OP here. I had not before. But I will. Thank you for that suggestion!

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

OP here. My husband is his AA sponsor.

Is the bottle of water maybe supposed to mimic a bottle of beer?

OP here. Ha Ha! I hadn't thought of that!

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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.

OP here. I look in the stores for refillable water bottles. I have bought many, but I have yet to find the "perfect" one. I want one that has a wide mouth so I can clean the inside of it. Not too tall or it tips over when I go around curves in the car. Not too wide or it won't fit well in the cup holder of my vehicle. I have found that Dasani water bottles in a can cozy fit just right in my car cup holders.

FWIW, I refill my empty Dasani water bottles from my faucet about 20 times before I toss them.

Have you looked at Klean Kanteen? They list measurements on their website.

Anonymous wrote:he is a guest. you can afford 1 bottle of water a week if you host this regularly and the environment won't suffer.

OP here. That is what my husband says.

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

OP here. My husband is his AA sponsor.

Is the bottle of water maybe supposed to mimic a bottle of beer?

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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.

OP here. Yes, we do the same. We bring cold bottled water out to the yard guys. I prefer to give them bottled water instead of water in glasses because, well, the guys are really dirty at the moment and I don't want them coming in the house to return the glasses. And if I left glasses full of water outside for them, they would get grass clippings in them and / or get knocked over.

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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.

OP here. I realized today that we didn't have any bottled water in the fridge. I thought about not restocking any so he would be "forced" to drink faucet water. But then it felt underhanded and catty and rude to purposefully not have any on hand. So I went to the laundry room to find our water bottle stash. I grumbled and sighed while restocking the fridge. Then I wondered if I was being shallow and petty for even caring. Thus the reason I started this post.

You are overthinking this. You had the solution in your grasp and you passed it by. If you can't do what it takes to solve your problem, OP, you are hopeless. I'm done advising you.

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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.

OP here. I look in the stores for refillable water bottles. I have bought many, but I have yet to find the "perfect" one. I want one that has a wide mouth so I can clean the inside of it. Not too tall or it tips over when I go around curves in the car. Not too wide or it won't fit well in the cup holder of my vehicle. I have found that Dasani water bottles in a can cozy fit just right in my car cup holders.

FWIW, I refill my empty Dasani water bottles from my faucet about 20 times before I toss them.

That's not good for you either. Those bottles leek out chemicals. They are not meant to be used over and over like the reusable ones.

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

OP here. My husband is his AA sponsor.

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.

OP here. I realized today that we didn't have any bottled water in the fridge. I thought about not restocking any so he would be "forced" to drink faucet water. But then it felt underhanded and catty and rude to purposefully not have any on hand. So I went to the laundry room to find our water bottle stash. I grumbled and sighed while restocking the fridge. Then I wondered if I was being shallow and petty for even caring. Thus the reason I started this post.

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.

OP here. I look in the stores for refillable water bottles. I have bought many, but I have yet to find the "perfect" one. I want one that has a wide mouth so I can clean the inside of it. Not too tall or it tips over when I go around curves in the car. Not too wide or it won't fit well in the cup holder of my vehicle. I have found that Dasani water bottles in a can cozy fit just right in my car cup holders.

FWIW, I refill my empty Dasani water bottles from my faucet about 20 times before I toss them.

Just bring him iced tap water. Done.