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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!

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[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!)