h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Especially since most (if not all) bottled water is just someone else's tap water

I can understand it if the local water isn't drinking quality, or is chlorinated () - but otherwise, it's just a waste of money and resources

A friend of mine used to work for my city's municipal water department. One year they thought it would be a nice idea to have a supply of bottled tap water to give out to school kids who came with their classes to tour the facility. They contracted with a local bottled water company to supply the bottles.


The first shipment of bottles arrived and city technicians checked them for bacteria, etc.

They sent the bottles back to the supplier *three times* before they were up to the city's standards for tap water.

I've never quite understood the fasination some people have with bottled water.... the only time I'll use it is if I'm say on the train and don't have/forget to bring a bottle of my own tap water with me

Another thing I thought of, whilst showering ... A lot of men... these days, dare I say it younger men in particular... like to pretend they're girls and buy all manner of bottles of oils and creams and garbage to use for shaving : Strange thing is a half decent bar of shower/bath soap and a razor works just as well without the need to restorting to pre shave balm, shaving balm, shaving oil, post shave barm etc A dab of moisturiser every now and then after shaving and you dont' get dried skin anyhows (mind I'm apprently a heven as I just take the razor into the shower and shave whilst I'm showering myself ) (never once cut myself whilst shaving....)

<< I just take the razor into the shower and shave whilst I'm showering myself>>

i used to do that when i was in the army

took my tooth brush and paste in as well

Takeing your toothbrush in... damn I'd never thought of that... I feel such an idiot actually... I know electric tooththbruses are pretty much waterproof... but not entirely sure about taking it in to the shower

When I was younger... at school like, I'd useually get up like not very early for school So I'd go down make a coffee, and put the coffee on the windowledge next the shower and drink it whilst showering Or, sometimes I'd take the cofffee with me to school, drinking it whilst I rode the bike up to the school

the soap thing is also relevant

at a push you can shave with normal soap and a brush

so if you use shaving soap and a brush and run out use ordinary soap as a stop gap(it will dry your face out if you over do it)

if you just use foam in a can once its gone your screwed

Three wheeled cars. More maneuverable, lighter and therefore more fuel efficient. They have always been repressed by bad press because a rise in the popularity of 3 wheelers would take a 25% bite out of the tire industry. Motorcycling is a third again or twice as bad depending on your point of view.

~jwf~

BTW Old collector cars are cheaper to buy and easier and cheaper to maintain than the rolling computer-appliances they sell today.

'shave'?

Surely a true economy would be to not bother with that.


I generally use a pair of electric clippers over the whole head about once a month, but I haven't done that since back in the fall.


Interestingly, I've noticed that I get very polite and enthusiastic attention from Sikh salespeople lately.

i do the head clipper thing about once a fortnight, but every now and again i take the bic to my pate aswel as my chin

I always just use bath/shower soap (shaving me chin like...) just about shave daily, well occasionally miss a day out... Dont' find it drys the skin overly much more than when I used an electric razor... but get a closer shave with the ordinary razor than with eletric... just a bit of moisturiser on the face every now and then you know...

My Father uses the clippers to do his head hair... mind he's not got much left to cut nowdays
Myself; I use a pair of garden cutter things to cut my hair about every six months... as my hairs long and in a pony tail I just cut off the four or five inchs or whatever it is I want to ditch... (typically cutting it just at the start of the summer....)

I just use me shower gel, bath foam, whatever I have to hand, sometimes just the soapy water. I use use dirt cheap baby oil afterwards. I'm only doing my legs and pits, though

Bought a shed-load of three-blade razor heads* a few months ago at a bargain price (the pharmacy had been told to get rid, they would not be providing them anymore) I still have a shed load left




*yes, I had forked out for the razor - but that was a few months earlier, in a sale.

Tap dancing is cheaper than ballroom, too

Shave with a cut throat razor, quite an economy in the long run. And a piece of alum after the shave will last forever.

Vodka.

Can you really tell the difference betweeen cheap* vodka and expensive, French,** Finnish or Russian vodka? I mean, the reason why it's distilled and filtered so many times is to make it taste of nothing!

By the time you've mixed it with tonic***, what's the point of forking out twice the price?

RF

* I'm not talking about the homemade Russian vodka here, which will make you go blind...
** Grey Goose
*** Off to the other thread to talk about cheap tonic.

I used to think the same. However, after just a week in Poland, it became apparent that vodkas do have a taste, and a bloody fine one too

I bought a pair of electric hair clippers in a sale for £12, which is the exact price of just one No1 cut in nearest hairdresser. I find for a simple mans cut , the oldfashioned barber is cheapest at as little as £5.

I'm always astonished at how much some* men fork out on just a hair cut :- Though I might have a bit of a 'perspective' issue with it, as the last time I went to an actual* hairdressers was some time in the mid 1990s (seem to recall it was about 3 quid or so back then....) But... blokes paying like £15 for a haircut?

I'm a bit naughty when it comes to razors, I have several.... all bought at half price or better, and having several means I can take any blades that happen to be on offer when I need some new ones, and I'll have a razor 'handle' they'll fit in
Actually can't say any particular razor stands out as being better than the others... and I've Wilkinson sword, Wilkinson sword quatro, quatro titanium, Gilette M3, M3 turbo, blah blah and they seem to work as well on other body hair as they do on one's chin
:- Though I do use a fairly expensive soap, its quite a 'moisturising' one, so then don't spend out the extra on shaving foam, gel, oils, etc., etc., etc.,

While I do have my hair cut officially once or twice per year, I just trim the fringe myself the rest of the time. My hair's so curly anyway that you can't tell whether it's uneven

Another true economy: the fabric from IKEA. It's not expensive, and you can use it to make more than just curtains...

Baby Oil can be used to shave and it is cheaper and gentler than propper shaving oils. Being clear makes it better than foam for intricately shaped beards.