My syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column for the week is entitled “Are you prepared for a water outage?“
Here’s an excerpt:
“One additional idea for storing a large amount of water at home is a WaterBob — a large, watertight bag that fits inside your bathtub and holds up to 100 gallons of water. If you have time to prepare for a water loss before it happens, you can fill the WaterBob with clean, drinkable water. They are especially popular in hurricane-prone areas or places that are prone to other natural disasters.”
Read this entire column at the Napa Valley Register.
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wolverine70 says
More great tips this week. One I hadn’t previously considered was saving the larger laundry soap jugs for hand washing stations. I’ll definitely retain a few now!
Coupon Maven says
Thanks, Wolverine. We have used the large laundry soap containers for hand wash stations when camping, or for outdoor parties & backyard cookouts too. It’s a trick I learned as a scout leader!
The craziest part of this week’s column topic: I turn my columns in four weeks ahead of publication. Since then, our water has been off six more times! The main in our street is old and keeps breaking. The city gives us about 30 minutes’ notice when they are shutting it off, and every time this happens, it’s a rush to fill the bathtub and all our containers. 13 hours is the longest that the water’s been off during these stretches, and then we are on a boil order for 3 days every time they wok on it. It’s definitely made things… interesting… around here!