Our water is extremely hard and has a ton of limestone and calcium in it. We don’t have a whole house filtration/softening system right now, so there is a very noticeable taste difference between our fridge and the sink.
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In the good old days Professor Van Helsing would have put a stake through this thread.
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I wouldn’t go back to whacking things on rocks at all. I won’t even go back to ice trays. I like the water and ice dispenser in my fridge. I will however avoid the fridge with WiFi that creates a shopping list for you. And I’ll avoid the trucks with “trailering assist” and massaging seats. There’s nothing absurd in knowing some of these add ons can fail. I think it’s rather absurd to argue otherwise or compare any of it to something with less components that was manufactured 100 years ago. That’s why they still make “base” models for people who don’t want to pay for the frills. Although even a base model is pretty laden with tech compared to what they were equipped with 10 or 15 years ago. I don’t have an issue with that, myself. But I don’t want to pay extra for a heated steering wheel that probably won’t work in ten years (if I ever turned it on in the first place).
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I lease a car every three years, I put nothing down.
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That’s great. I buy old cars every few years, and might pay $2k or less to buy the car, and another $500 to $1k in initial repair/maintenance costs, and then drive them payment-free for as long as I want. Sure, repairs aren’t free, even if you DIY. Some repairs are too difficult to DIY, or there just isn’t time, so I end up paying shop prices. However, there is no need for costly full-coverage insurance no mileage limitations, no worries about being charged for “excess wear and tear”, no concern about being unable to afford the payments or turn-in fees, etc. If I want to take the car out-of-state, or even across the border, there is no GPS tracker, and no lender to threaten me for violating the contract.
With the average monthly loan/lease payment on a typical vehicle being approximately $450 per month, I’d estimate that I have saved over $50k by driving old cars. That includes the money spent repairing the old cars, and replacing old cars which could not be repaired any more.
For example, people here laughed at the idea of spending approximately $1200 in parts and machine shop labor to repair the engine in my Daewoo Lanos. However, based upon the average loan/lease payment, the car only has to last 3 months to cover the cost, and every month after that it’s putting money back into my pocket–month after month after month. In reality, since I used quality parts, and did every step carefully, I can reasonably assume that the car will run for many years with just routine maintenance.
I agree but it is the same story as buying. It’s a negotiation.
When you lease, you are “buying half a car”. The dealer hopes to recoup the other half when you turn it in.
Same negotiation tactics that apply to buying. Keep the down payment and monthly payment as low as you can get it before they tell you “no deal”. Shop around to see if you can do better
Very true. Last year I did a comprehensive analysis of how much it has cost me, from the age of 20 to 70, to get a new car every 3 or 4 years, vs. keeping each car for 10 years, factoring in the additional maintenance and repairs. Total additional cost was $100,000. Say I would have saved $80,000 of that (I wouldn’t). I’d have about $100,000 today. That would give me an investment return of $4,000 per year pre tax, or $2,400 net. That $200 per month would not affect my life at all.
It comes with a water filtering system. If you like the taste of the water as it comes out of your tap (like I do), it’s redundant. The filters are never cheap.
Depends on where you live.
Our tap water is around 80 degrees and tastes bad. I love having filtered water and ice through the door.
My primary beverages are coffee and ice water. I do use tap water for coffee.
I never get in my car without water, learned that living in the high desert.
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I get 3 filters for 32.00 and they seem to last a long time . Not expensive .
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Yup, same for me. Water lines run through my attic so water is hot at the cold water tap most times.
Tastes OK, but the filtered water is cooler and tastes better. The non name brand filters are cheaper than the ones sold under the brand name of my fridge.
That sounds like $32 I don’t have to spend.
I learned that lesson from Tillie Tooter. She survived for three days on candy, rainwater, and gum while trapped in her car.
I get about the same mileage I wonder if it makes a difference in how long they last depending what minerals the water supply has in it.
I don’t think it does. I think the fridge uses a simple timer that gets reset each time you replace the filter, like the ones inside water pitchers. This ensures the filter manufacturers a steady stream of income. (Pun intended.)
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I think you may be right about that and probably a lot of other things could be in that same classification 
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Your water may taste like the ground water around St Augustine. I went to the Fountain of Youth Archeological Park there and tasted the water. Ponce de Leon said the taste was wonderful. I find sulfurous water awful. Think of how bad the water on his ship must have been if he liked the taste of that foul spring water in St Augustine.
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The water that comes out of the well that I use ONLY to irrigate my lawn we call “stink water” because of the sulfur. It also contains so much dissolved limestone it will water spot any car in its path like I have never before experienced! Oddly enough, the rain will wash it away better than anything else I’ve tried.
Drinking water comes from the local treatment plant.
I can’t imagine drinking that stuff without a reverse-osmosis system!
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Did you know you can cut&paste whatever you are disputing, rather than have us scroll through many posts to guess about it?
I guess you don’t believe, before refrigeration, there was an industry that cut blocks of ice from frozen lakes to be stored for use in the summer.
Yes there was.
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Click on the arrow, the post replied to will be displayed. There is nothing about ice in that post.