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Jan. 8th, 2012 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
...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!
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Date: 2012-01-09 02:41 am (UTC)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!)
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Date: 2012-01-09 03:06 am (UTC)I think we need a trade, you can take the cold winters and I'll take the hot summers. *G*
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Date: 2012-01-09 03:16 am (UTC)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)