I was reading a story today on how this one family saved well over $2000 a year when they simply stopped purchasing bottled and filtered water. I was thinking how they must have purchased a lot before as I would think a more common expense amount is around $500 to $1000. This is probably way too hard for a lot of people to do just based on the thought that many people have where if you drink tap water that it must mean it is contaminated.

When I think for myself, when I was a kid I never used any bottled water and everything was fine. If there ever was fear that the water was in any way bad the simple solution was to just boil it. I never purchase bottled water in stores as it just seems so expensive when you think about it. You can literally just make your own bottled water for virtually nothing even if it is tap water. Yet many won’t which is surprising to me.

For example, you see people flocking to the stores to buy bottled water that are on sale when really it will probably only take you a few minutes to do yourself. It’s just a matter of making it a habit too I guess if you want to start using the tap water instead to save money you just got to stick with it for at least a few months. If money is the main motivator too then I’m sure seeing how much you save a month will be a good enough reason to keep doing it.

Apparently here there is going to be some kind of ad campaign created to educate people about tap water here and how it is safe to drink. The article I read basically revolved around bottled water and how various commercials have made people believe that tap water has a high chance of being unsafe to drink. As a result, people shell out money for bottled water.

There was an interesting fact too where it indicated that today a litre of bottled water was actually more than a litre of gas. I wonder if anyone has ever done a case study on how much money they have saved by either bottling their own water or simply relied on tap water.

Kind of strange in some ways when you think about it as it’s like someone spending money to convince another person to simply eat the apples that grow in his own backyard tree as oppose to going to the store and spending money.