Joneses et all
Where Exactly Is The “Pressure” To Spend? * Who is forcing you to spend? Analyze what kind of answers you come up with - friends? peers? relatives? neighbors? or that idiotic bodybuilder on the television? * How have they pressurized you? Did someone convey to you - either by words or by deeds that you are inferior because you spend less?
Which Jones Family Are You Trying To Keep Up With?
Dan Rather stands by his story.
In Life Without Plastic, I found out some scary stuff about plastic water bottles:
…the plastic used in both single-use and reusable bottles can pose more of a contamination threat than the water. A safe plastic if used only once, #1 polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE) is the most common resin used in disposable bottles. However, as #1 bottles are reused, which they commonly are, they can leach chemicals such as DEHA, a known carcinogen, and benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), a potential hormone disrupter. According to the January 2006 Journal of Environmental Monitoring, some PET bottled-water containers were found to leach antimony, an elemental metal that is an eye, skin, and lung irritant at high doses. Also, because the plastic is porous you’ll likely get a swill of harmful bacteria with each gulp if you reuse #1 plastic bottles.
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t.