Using tap water, using bottled water for cooking & such
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Using tap water to wet bedding?
Comments (21)Interesting. Thank you, Tai-tai. The company I work for is a pet product manufacturer and wholesaler, so I know exactly what you mean about paying (or not) for the testing to add something to a label. Your comments caused me to actually check the ingredient list on the Prime I use for the aquariums. Turns out, while it may be safe for ornamental fish, I'm now wondering how safe it is for ME! LOL! Apparently one form of it is used to bleach pulpwood...of course as we all know, a substance can have many different forms. I did call the city and they assure me that it's safe, and they are sending me an analysis that should tell me exactly what and how much of it they add. I do know that the city of Lynn MA is very frequently at the top of the water quality list in the state. Not really sure how that relates to real life, but there it is. After I looked it up, I made a decision. I'm going to stop worrying so much about how I'm doing what I'm doing and go with my gut. Before I found this forum, I was thinking about the worms in terms of what I grew up with. That would be down South, rural, with gardens and worms and harvests, and pigs and cows and never having shoes in the summer. Nothing was as good as planting something and finding a worm when you dug the hole. That meant that the plant was going to grow really great! Add to that, I'm at about 10 weeks with the bin, I have small 1.5" worms that tell me they are reproducing, and the first tray is almost full of castings, so I think I'm doing okay. I have almost no moisture in the bottom, more like condensation than actual liquid pooling, and while I occasionally find a couple of worms on the inside of the lid, it's very few. Most seem to be very happy down in the bedding and food. I haven't missed how many times I've read here about people coming to the forum when the bin died around this time, but I hope I've read enough of the comments to not let that happen. We'll see, right? So far I've learned a lot here, and look forward to learning tons more, and chiming in now and then. I also plan to keep reading everything (I used to go through paperbacks at the rate of 2-3 a week, but now it's all either worms or roses online), and learning different facets and ways of doing things with my worms and what they give me! I do have a totally unrelated question now, but I'll do that separately. See? I'm even learning about forums at 60+ yrs, or, at least, I THINK I am. LOL! I'll have to figure out how to add a photo before I add bedding again.......See MoreBottled water: more healthful than water from the tap???
Comments (29)Ahem... OJ, my friend, your hypocrisy is showing! ;) As I understand it, you're a "bottle babe" too, right? But you're a closet bottle babe. You drink bottled water as I recall. In fact you drink nothing but if memory serves correctly. And you're a water bottler too so all these companies and people you go at about bottling water is done by that guy in the mirror? Or have things changed? :D I make no apology that I drink spring water. Can you carry 20-30 cups of tap water in your vehicle so you have it with you and available when needed and wanted? I think not. The cost? 7¢ to 9¢ a bottle is what I pay. Certainly not going to break me. And I'm not driving back and forth every day or two to get this water, burning gas, oil, tires and wear on the vehicle. :D (OK, end of the jabs!). Now to the "clubs". :D I know it's become fashionable to vilify water. Complain about "all those bottles in the landfills!!!!" LOL People who do this, I have to wonder what's in your water? Interesting how pop, tea, juice, milk and other containers can go in the same landfills and no problem with that right? How about all those foam coffee cups and plastic dome lids on the coffee cups that people insist on buying at Starbucks, Tim Horton's, Caribou and the like? Where's the screaming about that? Dead silence. Perhaps that foam and plastic doesn't use petroleum products? Or maybe they're 100% recycled? Or is there another reason? What about the pod coffee drinkers? Nobody's bothered by that plastic going into the landfills. Those little plastic cups going into the garbage don't seem to offend people? Why? OH, it's not water! I forgot that water is the target. I also have to ask, where's the same (manufactured) outrage over all the diapers that go into those landfills some are so concerned about? When's the last time anyone has recycled a diaper? 'Splain that one to me Lucy! Shall we talk about all the other stuff that goes in those beloved landfills? (Today they're "landfills". I remember when they were called "dumps"!) Light bulbs, batteries, packaging, greeting cards, expired gift cards, rotisserie chicken containers, fem hygiene products, toilet paper and paper towel rolls and wrappers, and so on and so on and so on. I realize that water has become a fashionable villain these days. Must be people having stock in Coke, Pepsi, Huggies and Starbucks. I used to have great water here. I don't anymore. And I am not going to have a cow over spending a few dollars a month to buy spring water, have it handy and not buy soft drinks, coffee and the like while out and about. So go ahead and yell and scream about people like me who drink water rather than sugar-laden or aspartame-filled drinks. I recycle my bottles. Coffee drinkers don't recycle many of their cups, lids, stir sticks, creamer/sugar containers, lids, etc, I'm sure. Every time there's a national disaster what's the first thing they ask for? Coffee pods? Diapers? Soft drinks? Nope. WATER! Perhaps we should never again send water to these people. Or the places with contaminated wells. They shouldn't drink bottled water. If tap water isn't good enough for you then you should go without? Hey, now THERE'S a possibility. I'm going to go have a bottle of water right now. Might have a bottle of juice to go with it. At least juice doesn't seem to be a villain like poor innocent water is! Proud to be a water drinker. Just noticed how old this thread is, but it was a good response that didn't deserve to be deleted. And after thinking about it, compared to many of the "current topics" being posted, it's more interesting, more thought provoking and far better than many of those topics. Moving on! :)...See MoreWatering bottle for us with sore/stiff fingers
Comments (3)For a while I had a Snapple bottle with a metal lid, in which I punched some nail holes. Worked great as a water sprinkler until, inevitably, I dropped and broke the (glass) bottle. If I make another, I'll use a similar, but plastic, drink bottle (the kind with a wide cap) and make the holes in the cap with a heated metal pick or something similar....See MoreAny washers use tap hot water?
Comments (19)SimmTalker, A simple method to run the machine with the lid open if you want to directly check the temperatures .... remove the latch part from the edge of the lid and place it down into the lock mechanism. Two screws involved, I think they may be Torx so you'd need to buy a Torx screwdriver of the correct size (or a set of multiple sizes can be had) if you don't have one. Replace the latch back into the lid when done checking. Or, you can leave it "tricked" to facilitate checking cycle operation whenever you wish ... the machine may require the latch be pulled from the lock after a cycle for it to confirm the lid has been opened before it'll run I had thought of doing that when I first bought it last year (because it was annoying the heck out of me), but hated messing with a brand new washer. But.....it really shouldn't hurt anything, and would make it much more user friendly.....I may just do that :)...See Moresushipup1
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