You know how every time you turn on the shower you have to wait for it to get warm enough to slip into it? And allll that water gets wasted while you're waiting?
Yeah, Caitlin, I know, and it bugs me!
We bought a 2.6-gallon bucket that we placed under the flow of water from our shower head to collect as much of that water as possible. What do we use it for? Two main uses:
1. Watering plants: it's already in a bucket, so no more filling up at the hose or the sink!
2. Adding it to the laundry: YES! just put it in the washing machine with your laundry and less water will be needed to start the cycle!
Hopefully you have a bucket at your house already that you're not using. We had to buy one ($3 for a nice, sturdy one at Big Lots), but hopefully the gallons of water we save throughout the year and the other things we use this handy dandy bucket for (like making our own laundry soap!) will even out the cost!
We fill up about half the bucket every morning and have been very good at using the water. We could even give it to our cats to drink! We just need to be careful not to get shampoo in it :)
1 comments:
BRILLIANT! I am implementing this starting TODAY.
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