So, last year at this time I quit buying water bottles. Stopped cold turkey. Sometimes, before then if we were going to go to the park for the day, we would get 4 plastic bottles of water and take them with us. Every day. If my husband was with us it would be 5. If the water wasn’t all gone, it would take about an hour in the sun in the car and the water would be undrinkable. When I think of all that waste it gives my spine a tingle. But, the good news is I stopped. First I bought a sigg bottle or two and we shared. but I kept losing it and forgetting it places and it was just a huge pain in the rear. So, I’m here to say, don’t think you need to buy anything to stop using plastic water bottles. Just clean out that old jar. I have a shelf now with 12+ jars, there’s always a clean one ready to be filled. Here’s the practical tidbits…

1. I have a cooler that is just the right size for 6 jars, I keep it in the kitchen and load it every morning and take it with us, even if I don’t think I’ll be gone for long.

2. The kids drink the jars near the cooler and put them back when they’re done, no running all over the playground with glass water bottles!

3. You can put the jars inside of a sock (using the sock as a jar cozy), it keeps it cool, keeps it from slipping out of hands, makes it a bit more bouncier and the theory is that if it fall and breaks the glass will all be inside of the sock, pick up the sock and throw it away.

4. In a year I’ve only broken 1 jar and life would’ve been much easier if I would have had a small hand broom and dustpan with me. (note to self get a tiny broom/dustpan and put it in the side pocket of the cooler!)

See how easy? and cheap? With all that extra money you save on water bottles splurge on an extra pizza night!

Love,
Heather

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In the middle of September, I went for a walk on the beach here and there was piles, mounds, heaps of plastic trash as far as the eye could see. Shocking. Then I went to the east coast and there was a red tide that burned your chest so much, you HAD to cough and going to the beach was miserable (though I still went and found 75+ shark teeth!). And then I came back to the west coast and everything went and caught on fire. And we had warnings not to go outside for days on end. I’m not saying it’s all connected. I’m just saying is all.

love,
Heather