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Bottled water...Seriously Mother?

127 replies

Feminine · 10/01/2014 16:39

My Mother is coming to stay with us on Sunday well she was Wink

anyway somewhere, somehow , she has it in her head that she can only drink bottled water.

This is despite having a water filter. This is despite us having just bought one for her visit!

When I lived in London, it was a must (for us) it did improve the flavour and after seeing the crud floating in the top (of the filter) it made sense.

Where we live in the Country our water is really nice, I've been 'lazy' about using one here.

My Mother likes having masses of these blasted bottles in the kitchen, just for drinking The filter is fine for tea/coffee.

Now, I forgot this silly rule that she binds all her visits with. I innocently thought the filter would work... for all water needs

Apparently not, as you have guessed it, she still wants a collection of Tesco value water all over the place

I'm not unreasonable am I? Its just bottled tap water right?

mother also claims a Doctor no less has told here to use it!

I know, it is a very boring question...I'm yawning as I type...however what is the opinion on MN please.

Mum has just slammed the phone down on me! Grin

After a typical " If you needed something I'd get it for you" poor me speech!

OP posts:
BikeRunSki · 10/01/2014 19:25

Well said magimedi
We are privileged to live in a country with clean, safe tsp water in pretty much all homes.

TalkativeJim · 10/01/2014 19:26

On a side note, do you garden? Those big value water bottles cut in half make excellent and very cheap cloches and slug protectors, so possibly a silver lining?

montysma1 · 10/01/2014 19:28

If you have a white dog with the pink stained teary area on it's face, and you switch it onto bottled water I guarantee that you will see the pink growing out before your eyes and you will have a snowy white dog in weeks. (random, utterly irrelevant!)

KareKare · 10/01/2014 19:36

My sil drinks only bottles water, ok fair enough - her choice although I think she's bonkers as her tap water is just fine.

But really ott, she brushes her teeth using bottled water too.

VikingVagine · 10/01/2014 19:41

My DM insists on using bottled water to fill the kettle, cook pasta and even brush her teeth with. I think you're getting off lightly!

fidgetsnowfly · 10/01/2014 19:47

I think YABU. Tap water's fine to drink, but is it the end of the world if she wants some bottled water? Would it kill you to put up with it? Is it worth making an issue out of?

HesterShaw · 10/01/2014 20:38

Yes because it's her house and the mother expects her to buy it. Of course it's an issue. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. Where do people get these ideas from?

Willdoitinaminute · 10/01/2014 22:45

mummybellybaby just to let you know if you want to avoid fluoride make sure you don't drink tea.

Also google fluoride in food you will be very surprised by the amount of fluoride found in some common foods. Diet Coke contains 1.12mg per litre.

When Birmingham was fluoridated many people objected and some would drive 20 miles to Malvern, home of a well known natural mineral water springs to fill up large containers from the wells. As a result they were drinking water which contained fluoride at much greater concentrations than their tap water.

woodlandwanderwoman · 10/01/2014 22:49

I live in SE and can't stand tap water. I see what gets left even in the kettle and on clean glasses and can't bear the taste of tap.
Is it really a huge deal to get a few bottles to add to your shopping? If can't bear tea but I still make sure there is some in the house for visitors who might want it. Fine, I wouldn't keep bottled water for everyone but if you know she likes it, it's not that much of a trouble I would have thought (sorry haven't read the whole thread).

Unclench · 10/01/2014 22:58

I only drink bottled water.
Our water is so hard it comes out wielding a knife

Starballbunny · 10/01/2014 23:12

DD has a system for visiting GPs. Fill drink bottle with very hard English water, drink no more than 1/2 bottle traveling to Gran's.

Top up drink bottle with very soft Welsh water, drink as much as you like coming home.

Drink only Tea or squash at GP's.

This way you never drink neat Welsh water, which she hates.

To be fair the water in each place does taste different, they are absolutely at opposite ends of the hardness scale and my parents water can be very heavy on the chlorine.

Mumoftwoyoungkids · 10/01/2014 23:17

sock Grin

I am attempting to breastfeed a baby and get him back to sleep. Things that make me laugh out loud are NOT helpful!

HKat · 10/01/2014 23:26

My friend (SE London) only gives bottled water to her cats...

IneedAsockamnesty · 10/01/2014 23:29

Mumoftwo,

far to busy to apologise,do you not understand I have a pop star to seek out.

sooperdooper · 10/01/2014 23:31

It's water ffs, it's perfectly drinkable out if the tap anywhere in the UK, and it's ridiculously wasteful to buy bottled, I don't care if people aren't bothered about the cost it's all the extra plastic chucked away over nothing that bothers me :(

supermariosmum · 10/01/2014 23:48

All my family and friends who have or have had cancer were warned not to touch bottled water throughout their treatment and recommended to not drink it afterwards either!!

sashh · 10/01/2014 23:52

BikeRunSki

I occasionally buy Ben Shaw's water because it tastes like tap water in Huddesrfield and as you say is nice.

I bet you can buy golden lemonade too.

Famzilla · 11/01/2014 00:22

Wow, this thread has been an eye opener to the extent of 1st world problems.

I have a bpa free bottle and fill it with delicious non-poisonous tap water. I thought Maria Carey was the only person daft enough to only drink bottled water.

volestair · 11/01/2014 02:47

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Naoko · 11/01/2014 02:59

I can't stand the taste of our tap water, it tastes of chlorine. God knows what they do to it. Of course it's perfectly safe to drink (when there isn't a cryptosporidium outbreak anyway, which has happened twice since I moved to this town) but it doesn't taste nice, so I drink bottled water. Also because I prefer sparkling water and you can't get that from the tap!

MusicalEndorphins · 11/01/2014 04:10

Just buy the bottled water, she is your guest and you know that is what she prefers. Or she should just pick it up when she arrives. I only drink bottled water, but use tap water for making tea and cooking. When we go away, we bring bottled water with us. I don't vary the brand of it either, as some you can taste the sodium in them.
But, I wouldn't throw a hissy fit, or expect or even mention to my hosts to supply us with bottled water, we just bring a case with us.
Water from various places does affect my "stomach", if that is what your mum prefers to say rather than "causes sudden diarrhea attacks".

JessieMcJessie · 11/01/2014 05:24

Did your Mum ever make your favourite tea for you when you were small? it was probably something she didn't particularly like herself. Do you ever do things that make your DH or DC happy even though you don't really get why they like those things? Sometimes we can't really understand why someone has a particular like or dislike, but we indulge them because we love them.

Your Mum's visit is only for a short time, the bottled water's not that expensive and it seems a breathtakingly trivial thing to fall out about. I'm guessing it's not really about the water.

Original poster
Feminine · 11/01/2014 08:21

jessie

I'm guessing it's not really about the water

spot on Grin

But....she will make it about it (iyswim)

I am the daughter who has always indulged her. To the point of my own sanity. That (Of course) is for another thread, another time...

back to the water...

My Mother is unable to even pick up a large bottle. That is because she has a frozen shoulder Hmm

Thank you all again...I'll buy it as I always do if she turns up!

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lastnightopenedmyeyes · 11/01/2014 08:36

My parents think I'm neglectful and stupid for letting my son have tap water (and for drinking it myself while pregnant) because the daily mail tells them that our tap water is full of excreted contraceptive chemicals and I will make my children infertile.

Every Monday they come to visit, bringing their own bottled water with them. They won't even use tap water to boil their hot drinks with. ConfusedConfusedConfused

BrownSauceSandwich · 11/01/2014 08:52

Sorry Naoko:

I can't stand the taste of our tap water, it tastes of chlorine. God knows what they do to it.

They chlorinate it. Grin

Of course it's perfectly safe to drink (when there isn't a cryptosporidium outbreak anyway, which has happened twice since I moved to this town)

Err, yes, that'll be because they chlorinate it. Grin Grin