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[keelywolfe]

You know, it's not that I don't believe in recycling or conserving energy but I do think there is occasion to take that to the extreme. I bought a new kind of shampoo this week and I happened to read the label. On it, there was a little blip of information letting me know that my family could save $100 a year if we turned off the water while shampooing and conditioning.

...I prefer to think of it another way. For only one Ben Franklin a year, I can be HAPPY AND WARM in my shower, not dripping wet and cold for two minutes at a time! For crying out loud, the only time in the winter that I am ever actually warm is when I am in the shower and I dread getting out of it and into the cold air so very much. Once is bad enough but I am not about to do it three times to save 27 cents a day. Yeesh.

On a side note, an electric throw blanket is probably one of the best things I have ever bought myself. Twenty bucks for sweet, sweet electric warmth. Almost as good as a hot shower!

Comments

[ntjnke.livejournal.com]

I agree with you!

Here's my question: Is your house cold in the winter?

I am you to the extreme. I don't care what the planet is doing. My house will be maintained at a comfortable temperature and my budget is built around that necessity.

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

It's not cold but it is not warm to my standards. I am forced to compromise with the other people I live with, so it's more like I'm cold and everyone else is all right. *G*

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Long hot showers are the one thing I just can't bring myself to compromise on. Totally with you here.

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

There are some luxuries that should be permitted with the minimum of guilt.

[taselby.livejournal.com]

I saw that on the back of my shampoo, too, and say fooey! I don't mind so much if the house is cold -- we lived without heat or AC here for several years (AC is my biggest indulgence -- I have no shame about using it like WHOA in the summer).

But the hell with freezing my parts off for the sake of a few pennies & a gallon of water. Happy and warm in the winter, happy and COOL in the summer. (Cold showers were one of the few ways we could cool down in the summer.)

tl;dr, yeah, they can bite me right on my toasty warm butt.

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the warm, usually, I can do without air. But I hate the cold with a passion! I'd pay for the damn water and stay WARM!

[taselby.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the summers are like where you are. Here, it routinely hits 100+, and without AC, it would reach 105 in the hallway (cool part of the house where the thermostat lives). No joke, I have a 3x3 pillar candle that *melted* in the heat over the course of 2 summers. The heat is brutal.

The winters, in contrast, are mild. It drops below freezing a few days a year, if even that. Highs this winter are running mid-50s to upper 60s, and lows are about 30-38. Make a few roasts, take hot showers, put on some extra blankets and a sweater and you're fine.

Mileage varies. Plus, I admit I'm not very sensitive to the cold, in general. Heat bugs me much more.

(Still absolutely with you on the "not turning off the spray to shampoo" thing, though!)

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

I live in Michigan, so it's not super hot here in the summer. Usually doesn't get past the mid-nineties, rarely into the hundreds. It's cold here in the winter though, right now it's astonishingly mild in the 30's.

I think we need a trade, you can take the cold winters and I'll take the hot summers. *G*

[taselby.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Except that you can keep the snow. *g*

I sincerely think that it should be one of the signs of the apocalypse... "sun turns to sackcloth, moon turns to blood, frozen water falls from the sky..."

*shudder* It's unnatural. (says the California Girl)

[mad-martha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with you on that one. If I turn the water off while I shampoo etc., I will have to turn the bathroom heater on, so ... no thanks. I recycle, I compost, I scrimp on water and power everywhere else. My shower stays sacrosanct.

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

I like the way your brain works!

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

When it does work, it usually does pretty well. Especially when it's warm! ;)

[shalom]

Amen!
One of the reasons I go to work is to maintain my WARM home with WARM shower water.

[keelywolfe.livejournal.com]

No kidding! It's one of the few cheap luxuries out there. A nice, hot shower after a long day.

[blueraccoon.livejournal.com]

Totally with you on this one. I love my hot showers. But also, what about those of us who multitask? Like I put conditioner in my hair and while that sinks in I wash my face, or while my shampoo is doing its thing i'm rinsing off my body, or whatever. No way in hell I'm going to deal with turning off and on the water while juggling shampoo, body wash, body pouf, etc.

[kirby-crow.livejournal.com]

I would love to recycle, but now they want you to register with some tax agency just to bring in your old cans and bottles, and the "recycling center" (term loosely used) refuses to put out bins for recycling plastics. You have to pack it yourself and drive way outside of town to bring it to them in your own bins. Zod help you if those bottles aren't rinsed properly, too!

The corporations who own the shampoo companies could be doing a lot more to save the environment than putting guilt messages on the backs of bottles, but oh that would cost money, wouldn't it? Bah!

[outofthisplace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's nuts. Hot water is the most important thing EVER in the winter. It's the only place in my apartment that I can guarantee will be warm (since the landlords are cheap with the radiator heat). Hell, even in the summer I still like my showers steamy.

My boss is a crazy recycler-- the closet we use for filing and stuff is also where she has to keep the absurd volumes of paper and plastic bags, and paper garbage that she has to wait each week to recycle (so that her neighbors in the building don't complain that she recycles too much-- which she does!)