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If you have an office job, showering only 2 or 3 times a week seems appropriate to me.
Depends if you have to sit next to that person in the office that does this. I've been there and done that before. Sorry guys, but I'm going to stick to my once a day shower. I think my wife would think I was out of my mind if I suggested to her that we only shower 2 or 3 times a week. lol
Last month we used 24/Gal/person/day last month. Lowest total yet! Using the gray water to flush the toilet's really helped. At a little over 1 gallon per flush @ 3x per day we saved over 90 gallons alone.
If you really want to save water, here is how you do it.
Shower once per week, or until your significant other kicks you out of bed. Buy lots of cologne perfume and deodorants instead.
Brush teeth once per day with water off.
Resort to dry shaving.
Flush the toilet only when it is all the way full. Invest in air fresheners.
Wear your clothes three times each before washing, making sure washer is full.
Stick your tongue out a lot when it rains for drinking water.
use a giant shamie towel on the morning dew on all plants and autos, then ring it out into a pitcher. Use for pets and brushing teeth, or save it up for a military style shower once per week.
We have a couple milk gallon jugs next to the shower to catch the water while it's heating up. We use that water for watering plants and filling the toliet tank.
We're at 200 gpd for 2 adults and 2 teenagers (a boy and a girl) - I thought we were doing pretty good until I read the posts here. We have some friends also with 2 adults and 2 teenagers (both girls) that are using 400 gpd - they got a water usage alert from the city.
My latest bill is 25.8 gallons per day on average without doing anything really out of the ordinary. I do shower once a day - even though I work from home skipping a day makes me feel really grubby. I have a high efficiency washer but don't do tons of laundry, or run the dishwasher more than 2x a week.
So, for a family of 4, 2 adults and 2 teens what would that cost if you're living in Wake Forest? Would they let you put a well in even if city water is available?
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