Tip: Save Money By Using A Water Filter Instead of Buying Bottled Water.

Frugal Tip of the Month: How Much Can You Save? $27.60 each month with a Pitcher Filter or $32.40 each month with a Faucet Filtration System – per family member!

Making It Work:

One thing we all have to do every day is drink water. And if you’re like many people, you might be buying bottled water to quench your thirst. Depending on whether you buy spring water or purified water, name brand versus generic brands, and the size and quantity you choose, bottled water pricing can range from $1.00 (for a 20 ounce bottle of spring water) to $6.99 (for a case, which is 24 16-ounce bottles).

Since medical experts suggest you drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day, that’s 64 ounces. Sixty-four ounces a day translates into four 16 ounce bottles per day. If you paid the $6.99 for 24 bottles, you paid 29 cents a bottle. If you drink 4 bottles a day, you spent $1.16 daily on your water. At the end of the month, you’ve racked up a $34.80 bill, just for your bottled water consumption.

Wouldn’t a more practical, low-cost way to drink your daily water be to purchase a water filter to filter your own tap water? Let’s look at the cost of the Brita Classic Water Filter with Pitcher first.

 It’s $18.99 for the filter and a pitcher that holds and filters 48 ounces at a time. Just one Brita filter will clean 40 gallons of water (that’s 5,120 ounces) which, if you’re drinking the standard 64 ounces a day, will last you 80 days — 2-2/3 months at a daily cost of 24 cents. So, that’s 92 cents daily savings over bottled H2O. And over a 30 day period, you’ll save a total of $27.60.

Another option for filters to help you save even more on water consumption is the Brita Base on Tap Faucet Filtration System, which attaches to your kitchen faucet. The cost is $17.75 and each filter filters 100 gallons.

Drinking the standard half-gallon water daily, this tap faucet water system will last nearly 7 months, resulting in a daily cost for your water of just 8 cents per day! Comparing these costs to the daily bottled water cost of $1.16, you’ll save $1.08 daily or $32.40 over the month. Now that’s some savings you can use!